Re: [eia] Zurich wrapup

["J.J. Young" <jjy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sir John Moore was killed during the evacuation of Corrunna in early 1809.
Although many other famous generals were killed during the wars, as far as I
know no other army commanders, represented in this game, died in battle
(Kutusov died of old age/debauchery during the years covered in this game,
for instance).

-JJY

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Uckelman" <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "public list for an Empires in Arms game" <eia@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [eia] Zurich wrapup


> Thus spake Michael Gorman:
> > >
> > >Hold on. You just reminded me that fatalities happen only on a further
roll
> > >of 6. So the probability of leader death is 1/216, not 1/36 as I'd
stated.
> > >(1/36 is the probability of leader casualties as a whole.) That makes
more
> > >sense to me, as the range of Napoleonic-era cannon and muskets combined
> > >with the modern practice of leading from the rear made the injury of
> > >commanding generals unlikely.
> > >
> > >Were *any* of the generals represented in the game actually killed in
> > >battle?
> > Nelson was, but I'm not sure if any others were off the top of my head.
> >
> > Mike
>
> Right, but I'm wondering about army commanders, not naval commanders.
> Naval combat involved getting much closer to enemy cannon than did
> land combat, at least from the commander's point of view, and Lord
> Nelson was a real charge-in, damn-the-torpedoes sort of guy to begin
> with; so I'm inclined to think that in Nelson's case 1/216 is a
> lowball estimate.
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