Battle lengths: MBT versus real life

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Originally Posted by Imp

Modern MBT battles play a lot quicker than say a WWII game due to the greater accuracy & lethality of the weapons, unsupported infantry vs infantry battles can still drag on like they should.

Where it differs from real life is recon & command & control. You dont spend several hours trying to gather info & getting in place before an attack & nobody gets lost on the way,
You also instantly react to the info on the battlefield so can move to intercept immediatly instead of wasting time carrying out your original orders only to be told to head back to where you were

Like with Mobhack's post that's exactly the kind of answer I was looking for. At first I thought that MBT might vastly overestimate the accuracy and lethality of infantry weapons. But from this thread I get the impression that US infantry squads really do have a 50% chance of hit per volley against Al Qaedas in open terrain and the scenarios just play fast because there isn't any command and control dead time.