Hello all, I am new to the list and have a question someone might be able to help me with. How does the HTH system of Swords Path Glory or RHAND morningstar...
On the James Randi forum recently someone has been reviewing the book "On Killing" by Lt. Dave Grossman. The author makes the case that real warfare is...
I have not read this book, but I will put it on my reading list. Although that " showed up in rates of 85-90% of troops in WWII refusing to fire on the enemy"...
Thanks for the suggestion. I like this quote from Grossman's website: "...Indeed, all evidence indicates that ancient battles were not much more than great...
... I have a strong feeling that it's one thing to blaze away into the air during a battle and entirely a different thing when some unshaven goon with bad...
The major problem, without quoting the book and keeping it simple, is the inertia of the nervous system. War as such puts so much physical and psychical...
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:19:47 -0800, Cpl Ferro wrote: I think it is not safe to make sweeping generalizations about all wars. This is probably where von...
... Assume that only one in ten men is willing to fire on the enemy. A gunshot is a fairly impersonal thing; going by Grossman's hypothesis, we can expect to...
I haven't read Grossman's book... but personal experience and familial history tell me he's full of it. I agree fully with Eero's statement below. I think...
... Interesting point. I'd suggest this is the difference between "formalised violence to establish a pecking order" and "violence with the intent to seriously...
Kristian Werner
kw2111@...
Jul 6, 2007 9:08 am
4777
(OK, so I'm basically repeating what the page at killology said ... didn't read it until after I'd pressed send, honetsly!) /K...
Kristian Werner
kw2111@...
Jul 6, 2007 9:08 am
4778
... Given the sheer numbers of women and adolescents who wind up in the trauma wards every year due to assault-related injury, I find this one very hard to...
I agree with the statements of most others so far, questioning the statistics and generalizations from this book - it seems very hard to believe that 90% of...
I think the premise stated here of 10% effectiveness is probably accurate, but only in certain contexts. Armies have always known that individual soldiers are...
According to Kevin Bluck, on 6-7-07 18:05 the word on the street was... ... According to some TV documentaries I saw on this subject, that could also be...
I agree with psychological training in combat -- but it's intent is not to prepare people to kill as much as it is to harden them to stand when their instinct...
Dear Kevin, et al, Grossman at the killology website discusses how crew-served weapons like cannons and machineguns have a much lower nonfiring rate than...
I meant no offence to you Ferro, really. I checked the website and read the stuff there, and found it lacking. But maybe there are details in the book about my...
Addendum. Many of his ideas are right (and in line with other scientific approaches and results), but I just found his conclusion skewed. Ákos [Non-text...
... much more ... I've not read the book, so I don't have much to say. But as a student of western martial arts, I have studied medaeval battles; and it is ...
... For pretty much all pre-modern wars, the big killer on both sides was disease. IIRC the first war where that wasn't true was WWI, though I may be off by a...
... i think the premise is that it's guys facing certain knowledge that they are personally going to kill that guy over there who are reluctant to do so. men...
i was reading some time ago about the relative ease with which the us army trains men to shoot. two generations ago it was much more of a task to get guys...
I'd be interested in the source of that. When I often see comments like that it tends to be coupled with an anti-game/TV/Movie violence theme and their data is...
Has anyone made this conversion? I've been toying with the idea of making a D20 Modern version of PCCS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the phoenix_command group. File : /Tim's...
phoenix_command@yahoo...
Jul 7, 2007 5:43 pm
4795
Oh my god, that would qualify as a WMD! :) Seriously, what would you like to transfer from PCCS to d20? Ákos ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Back in the late 80's I started gaming with Spectrum and then Rhand. One of the genre's I tend to like the most is post holocaust (closely followed by space...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
