Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-99.166.166.141-20151227031941/@comment-86.173.133.71-20151228223107

Whilst what you say is not wrong, those things will happen, I feel that it's somewhat rose tinted.

The problem with that kind of protracted defensive warfare is that if you have a high value site, such as a forgeworld, then you may well find that dispite a wish to defend, you simply may not be able. So you loose that asset as defending it will cost too much of your overall defensive assets. It may be impossible to reinforce or withdraw the assets at that station and thus loose them to a 'easy win' for the enemies as you are may be losing ground too quickly to allow lovely tactics such as stripping it or giving it a meaningful amout of defence, even if just to bloody the enemies nose.

Having less ground will means that you have less ground to cover, that is true...hopefully, by that point you'll still have assets left to mount an effective defence.

Primachs may be back, may not. It'll be nice if they could help.

It is the irony of warfare that when life gets hard, difficult tasks are needing to be completed then skills troops are needed. Becasue it is hard and by hard, we mean lethal, it means that specialist/skilled troops tend to die...lots. This is because when you have high odds against you, you need your best to try to equalise them. It simply won't work for them all the time. See 'Op - Market Garden'.

The Battle Of Berlin et al shows us that while strong, professional units will be used, it will increasing fall to the left overs. So when it is win or extinction, your'll have children, women and the old fighting along with increasingly fresh or worn out skilled units which are too few or in the wrong place to help effectively. As with the Battle Of Berlin et al we saw wide spread rapes, looting and war crimes which with no one able to fight back or stop the aggessors, you are at the mercy of potentially a chaos bod who wants to rape your whilst flaying you or the Necron/Tyranid who just wants you dead//eaten.

People do fight hard when it's their turf but it still isn't always enough, the Japanese, Russians, Germans etc all found that out in WW2 and other wars/conflicts.It is true though that it gives an extra push. "A man fighting for is country is worth 10 fighting for money" is a maxim that springs to the fore.

I'd prefer not to see human extinction as it's not going to be good to us.