From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:37:29 +1000
Subject: [SG/DS] Extreme weather (was Georgia in winter)
G'day Alan, > Considering the range of temperatures here on Earth, plus natural I'd say a pretty big one! For instance, many of the reserves from down here that were heading off to Timor did a month of acclimatisation in Townsville first. I grew up in a place where it got to -15 deg C in winter (OK not cold by you "above 60the parallel" guys but cold enough to freeze the pipes and outdoor dunny solid - and that's bad in my opinion) and then upto 45+ in summer, the whole way you tackled things changed with the seasons. So if you saw even one of the extremes on a battlefield (let alone both if your somewhere, say a planetoid, that goes diurnally between the extremes) then you're going to be effected via endurance, heat stroke, potential equipment failure etc etc. I haven't got round to doing an extreme terrain game yet, but I've been thinking over accumulative movement and reaction test penalities to do with weather/terrain (e.g. Green start as normal but as things wear on they go off the boil as the heat (etc) takes its toll). Cheers Beth