trancejeremy
Adventurer
D'oh, I was going to say the PC game. One of the better implementations of the Artillery game
It makes me think of the retreating Russians burning their wheat fields to sabotage Napoloen's eastward advance in 1812 - he had planned on "living off the land".
Well, military commanders not reading histories is a common problem in military history. We used scorched earth against the soviets in 1939 and they weren't expecting it (Stalin having killed most of those dangerous history reading commanders of his). To be fair though, the Finnish version was to leave things looking fairly normal and then boobytrap every inch of it. You see a barn still standing, don't go in.So did the Germans in 1941. Someone wasn't reading their histories, were they?
You see a barn still standing, don't go in.
This is RPG related, and I'll explain more later. First I just want to get people's reaction to the phrase "Scorched Earth." What does that make you think of?
This is RPG related, and I'll explain more later. First I just want to get people's reaction to the phrase "Scorched Earth." What does that make you think of?
It makes me think of the retreating Russians burning their wheat fields to sabotage Napoloen's eastward advance in 1812 - he had planned on "living off the land".