Replies to a variety of posts... cause I'm lazy....

Item 1:

Some links.... that may be of interest

These have been up for a long time now, but I may have originated bits of most
of these... or formalized thoughts from others. Use the bits you like, modify
at will.

Shortly these will appear on the soon to appear stargrunt.ca (soon as my
domain registrar can figure out how to accomplish a transfer... and Adrian and
I can get a stylesheet in place...)

http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/Gaming/AGreyDayToDieForumPage.htm

http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/Gaming/CloseActionRisks.htm

http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/Gaming/Spotters.htm

http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/Gaming/StealthyMovement.htm

http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/Gaming/TechToolbox.htm

http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/Gaming/Trav2SG2.htm

http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/Gaming/gzghist.htm (good up to 2188....
need to finish some FB2 stuff...)

http://fox.nstn.ca/~kaladorn/Gaming/sg2-nlw.htm

Item 2:

EW - why to keep it active, or not.

Active: Good for jamming. Bad for hiding. If you have an ambusher with running
EW or comms, you don't have an ambush.

Passive: Good for ambushing or hiding, bad for jamming.

And, if you are just nasty as all heck and allow GMS-P/HARMs.... well,
the
EW jammer with his active EW set is gonna find that a GMS/P really ruins
his
day....

Plus an EW unit ought to automatically be revealled - and makes a good
place for arty.

Item 3:

Counters: KR told me once he has counter sets, mostly as a consequence of
books damaged in shipment or whatever... but he should have SG2 sets.

Item 4:

Magic, get some shur-patch or other spot putty for drywall (nail hole
filler). It fixes the contours on bases with far less muss and fuss than all
that white glue. And it paints well once dry. Or flocks. Heck, if you mixed
some green or brown paint with it wet, you could probably not paint it
later... (still requires a place to wipe your hands as fingers are the
solution for application!)

Item 5:

Is there anyone who knows a company producing Scarab APCs or Corvus VTOLs?
If so, a name/weblink would be a super plus. I have 2 Scarabs, but I'm
using them as my "small" french AIFV (I'm using the Phalanx as the big boy
since it reminds me of a VAB). I also have a Corvus, but I need another one.
They tend to work in pairs. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you're
missing out - these are old minis made by (Grenadier?) that went with a
bunch of the Future Wars lines - nicely done.

Item 6:

Snipers.... There are some excellent books on Gunny Hathcock and Sgt. Waldron
(who has more confirmed kills than Hathcock) from the Vietnam Era, and the one
(name escapes me, I'll check up on it and post when I think of it) has an
excellent lengthy treatise on various types of sniper ops (ones you'd not
think of normally too) and on the various degrees of employment historically
from the Civil War to past Vietnam... don't recall when it ends. It talks
about attachment levels (Battalion isn't uncommon) and
numbers and training - really these are quite variable. Also, the amount
of use a sniper gets and his effectiveness depend on the awareness and belief
in the utility of the sniper on behalf of the main-force officers in
command of his deployments. Many officers have a sparse concept of how to use
a sniper, so they are poorly handled.

The French tend to include marksmen in squads (see the first link at the top
for my marksman rules) and they tend to act (as someone said) as better
riflemen - giving the squad some organic counter sniper for all sorts of
ops these days. My FSE Squads tend to pack 1 marksman each (unless they are
assault squads where the flamer troops appear!).

Item 7:

Squads/Fireteams:

I'm a bit of a heretic, but I like the 4 man fireteam with complete
independence of manouvre. I also like the idea that the morale for both
fireteams is really a linked product - if one fireteam sees the other
get smoked... well, it'll have a big efffect. They bivouac together and train
together as a squad, even if they fight as fireteams. I find "detachments" are
1) too hard to form and 2) to restrictive in terms of how you have to activate
them. YMMV.

Item 8:

Figures: It was the lying down sniper I wanted to know about. Thanks to all
for the info. I can now order the sniper and the merc figure I was missing
when I put in my next big order.

Item 9:

Skylighting -- anyone remember the Satellite viewed kill in Patriot
Games (I think that was it)? The SAS came into the terrorist camp skylighted
really
pronouncedly against the dunes/nights sky. Not very professional I'd
think. Any sentry not completely on drugs would have seen them clearly. Movies
do horrendous things to make combat more cinematic (mostly).

Item 10:

Terrain clutter: I've seen many areas of the Canadian Shield where I couldn't
see 10 ft for thick brush, others where I could fire half a mile. Plenty of
plowed fields to give long fire lanes. And if you've ever seen an excercise in
Saskatchewan.... well, cover is a crease in the prairie
hardpan... and entrenching if the clay is hard is a no-go... and you can
see further than you can shoot with artillery...

Item 11:

Thankfully there is no Item 11. We now return you to your regularly scheduled
programming. Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.

Tom,

Thanks for the idea. Los had told me the same thing but on items not
pertaining to fire combat I like to get a second opinion before I trust the
Los solution <G>.

I am using white glue mostly due to the fact that I am lazy and getting some
dry wall putty would require a drive off base into the zone.

Thanks again,

Bob

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> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Barclay, Tom wrote:

> Item 1:

Thanks!
> Item 2:

That depends on whether 'active' means barrage noise jamming, or intelligent
responsive jamming? An active noise jammer is indeed very obvious; intelligent
deceptive jamming usually far less so.

(I'll happily go into the differences if people are interested, but don't want
to spam otherwise)

> And, if you are just nasty as all heck and allow GMS-P/HARMs.... well,

*grin* The same applies to anyone using advanced sensors, of course.

> Plus an EW unit ought to automatically be revealled - and makes a good

Again, that depends on the type of EW. I'd imagine in the future a lot more
deceptive than white nosie EW would be used.

> Item 5:
They
> tend to work in pairs. If you don't know what I'm talking about,

Pictures?

> The French tend to include marksmen in squads (see the first link at

I'll have to look at the links, sounds interesting. Of course, Milan's
make wonderful counter-sniper weapons as well (GMS/1, I guess)

> Item 7:

So how would you use these then?

> Item 9:
Movies do
> horrendous things to make combat more cinematic (mostly).

Yeah. Or worse, Stargate... I thought they were specvial forces, but they
really were (lousy) boyscouts!

> Item 10:

Well, okay. That's why I said 'european'. Mm. Half a mile is how much in
tabletop scale again?

> Item 11:

LOL!

Cheers,

> Absender: derk@cistron.nl

Well, even 'European' terrain can vary a lot. Europe is a big place (OK, not
quite as big as some others) and includes anything from the Russian Steppes to
the Alps

:-)

> Derk Groeneveld wrote:

> Item 10:

80" in SGII scale.

Regards,

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> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Oerjan Ohlson wrote:

Mmm. Okay, that definately is a significant distance:)

Cheers,

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> On 23 Mar 2001 KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:

> > Well, okay. That's why I said 'european'. Mm. Half a mile is how

I stand corrected. I was mainly referring to the german plains, as that is
where both my napoleonic prussians and '80-s brits would fight most.

Cheers,

From: "Derk Groeneveld" <derk@cistron.nl>
> On 23 Mar 2001 KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:

Hmm. I live in Northern Germany. My impression is that sight-lines of
between 500 m and 1 Km are not rare. There certainly are lots of small and
medium-sited woods, low hills and towns. But for close terrain, you want
to go to the 'Mittelgebirge', the mountainous and usually wooded areas in
central Germany.

Greetings

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:10:09 -0500, "Barclay, Tom" <tomb@bitheads.com>
wrote:

> And if you've ever seen an

Remember that Saskatechwan's motto is:

"Can't die from falling"