Ekarderif said:
What about officers? You don't want them to make educated decisions either? I can see educated "grunts" as threats, kinda, but you don't want intelligent officers either?
No personal offense to anyone, but the average Amy officer would lose a wits match with a brick. Those who are intelligent and join often have the brains to hide the fact that they are smarter than the average grunt.
There is also a difference between "educated/intelligent" and "imaginative". So when do you plan on enrolling into West Point?
Briosafreak said:
There`s another irony here since D&D was, like many tabletop games and tactical simulations, based in mechanics and protocols that came from military tabletop wargames.
Gunny Christenson, God bless his soul for the good Catholic soldier that he was, had the military's belief about fantasy material. A damn fine Korean War vet, who also had a taste for tabletop strategy games, and we would play with a few of the other vets at the vet's center. He noticed that I had a bit of Warhammer and D&D in my army fig collections, and snorted as he looked them over.
He had that attitude, until I pointed out to him that when you play the war tabletops, you're using a historic set of strategies that are limited to that scope. "Limited? I will show you how limited it is!" I then explained that tanks don't breath fire, fly, and cause some other weird shit to happen, and you have to take all of that into account as well in your strategies.
Click. Naturally, I had to show him the Blood Angels.
