<OT> RotK Armies Run Away

BOF bof
Mon May 17 11:56:55 PDT 2004


Joel Hammer wrote:

>Well, the designers of this code were really stupid.  The Germans armies
>of WWII had a simple way of preventing this problem. In the German army,
>any soldier caught behind the lines without an official pass was simply
>shot by German MP's. This crude arrangement was very effective. So,
>just program the virtual soldiers to know that certain death awaits
>anyone who moves a certain distance backward from the line of battle.
>
>End of problem.
>

In WWI, the British stationed MP's behind the front line trenches to 
shoot anyone who did not get out of the trench and go forward when an 
attack was launched.

Probably effective, although I wonder how many MP's were shot first.

BOF





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