Neonchameleon
Legend
I'm not the one who used the phrase "my balls hang low". And I haven't been waving banners for anything other than that I think the dichotomy (though I've been told that term is inaccurate) has validity.
Of course you haven't. On the other hand using army marching songs to illustrate the implications of describing things as war is, I believe, either fair or polite to the war side.
See, this I can deal with better.
I feel that labeling "Combat as War" as meaning "a desire for mismatched fights" is misleading. It's using a part of the concept to describe the whole.
An inherent part of the concept every time I've heard CaW supported. And you're ducking entirely the "Burn down the forest and turn the dungeon to mud" parts of CaW.
What if we left combat out of it entirely? What if CaW is equivalent to Hussar trying to ride giant centipedes through the desert to avoid unnecessary combat encounters? Nothing's being blown up or slaughtered, but the point is the same.
Then I'd say CaW is a 4e staple and much harder in 3.X and AD&D.
But if we want an Action Film/Heist Film dichotomy I think that works?