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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zenon" data-source="post: 269664" data-attributes="member: 352">Re: Re: How Would You Defend A Mountain Fortress?First of all, the quote says 100, not 10. Or hadn't you read it?And secondly, I am using the word 'decimate' as in the 3b definition from Webster's dictionary:The example that I'm making is that you can apply a huge concentration of force, pop in and wipe out 100 troops with ease (and most likely do it in a round or two) and be gone before their high level quick reaction forces can reply.Do this twice per day per force if possible, at random times.This incurs losses of 200 men a day, 1400 a week, 5600 a month per force like this you send out.If you can field ten forces like this, then the losses equal 56,000 men a month, approximately 6% of the legion. With the unit losses spread out, the legion will begin to lose coheision and coordination. Morale will plummet as each man wonders when he'll be next. And that's just after one month of this. Six months would be around 40% losses, which I believe is considered catastrophic losses by most armies (?). If the timeframe is too long, up the amount of forces used or the number of times per day they are sent out. This is in return for next to no losses in return. Granted, there is always the chance to accidentally run into a high level person who many inflict a loss or two in the time you're on target.Very true.I assume you mean "unrestricted submarine warfare" against merchant shipping, which brought Britian to it's knees in WWI, and almost took them out of the war due to it's effects.This one is so nice that I wish I thought of it! The Valloreans wouldn't believe that their own troops were treated nicely and released unharmed! They'd expend so many resources attempting to determine what was done and if they could trust these troops again....the only thing you might want to add to this is some that have been "tampered with", just to throw suspicion on the whole lot of them. The massive waste of manpower guarding, analyzing, etc would be worth it. They also wouldn't be able to "trust" them in battle. Oh, that's beautiful!My hat is off to you, sir!</blockquote>

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