Re: Killing Infantry
Thaks for the advice fellows.
Now please take what I am about to say in the spirit it is offered...it is not a complaint...just an observation.
I feel that in both this game as well as SPWaW, infantry is simply too resillient and too quick to rally. In some ways, they behave like fanatical automatons. Put yourselves in the position of the average infantryman and consider finding yourselves in the following scenario -- then tell me if you would react as I describe our hypothetical infantry behaves.
You are a member of a dismounted infantry platoon moving through a confined clearing towards a suspected enemy position some 300 m distant. All of a sudden, 120 mm mortar fire begins to rain down on you like hail. Explosions erupt all around you as men and body parts fly through the air amid the horrid cries of torment of the dead and dying. When the smoke clears, 60% of your platoon is wiped out and now you are taking fire from the position you had been advancing against killing scores more. You cringe in a crater hole preying for deliverance when you Platoon Seargent yells some words of encouragement which make you forget your perdiciment and even dispell the systemic shock you are suffering. You and the surviving members of the platoon rally to his call and renew your advance toward the entrenched enemy line in the distance. More of your comrades fall -- and once again the seargent rallys you up -- you press on. Eventually, you and the 5 or 10 survivors of your platoon find yourself 50 m from the enemy line -- a line populated by over 100 entrenched enemies pouring fire down on you...but you press on to the bitter end...after all, you are a russian soldier."
Does that sound like the reaction of the average soldier. I am no coward, but I can tell you for sure, it wouldn't be my reaction.
Krotos
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