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Originally Posted by Olefin
Actually it has a very coherent point
According to you and others marauder forces, especially those composed of trained military men, should be able to deal with tanks easily, especially if they arent supported by artillery. You can easily peel off their supporting infantry and take them out.
So what do you have at Brownsville in the Texas module - a very well armed marauder force which was a Mexican Brigade that had turned marauder but which was still organized and had officers and NCO's. They had APC's, anti-tank missiles and were well equipped per the module.
They got attacked by a small column of Russian armored vehicles who had no artillery or air support.
With what has been said here that Russian force should have been butchered. But what happened - they lost a single BTR in the attack, butchered the Mexican force and took Brownsville with very low casualties
thus, in the minds of the people who created the game, they didnt see Mexican Army or typical marauders able to take on armor and win
and while they mentioned the characters, who had fought in Europe, knew how to take on tanks, the Mexicans and marauder forces in Texas specifically were mentioned as not knowing how to deal with them because they hadnt been exposed to armored warfare as in Europe
I.e. they may have had guys who had seen old movies on throwing a bottle of flaming gasoline at tanks and they had a few guys trained to fire RPG's - but other than that all they knew how to do when armor showed up was run - and those were Mexican troops
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Because the authors wanted it to happen that way. Simply because for all the points you mention they should have slaughtered the Russians.
.50 BMG passes right through what little armor a BTR has.
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Originally Posted by Olefin
Actually it has a very coherent point
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Now, back to what I said earlier...... I can't make sense of that post. I read it three times. Could you edit that and clarify it? One subject per paragraph, one sentence with the argument and main point, then supporting evidence in other sentences. Please.
Seriously, it is like an episode of drunk history. I thought I was bad about automatic writing and spilling it out as it has come to mind.