As someone who has fought in the desert while wearing armor, I can tell you that it's no picnic, and I had the advantage of all the fresh water with which I could glut myself, decent food, and even some occasional air conditioning for relief. Even though my unit was from Illinois, where we typically see temps of 100 degrees F with high humidity in the Summer, we all spent the first two weeks in the desert collapsed in a puddle in our tent while we tried to acclimate, and it was still only springtime!


Quote Originally Posted by Martok
Heh. I'm suddenly having flashbacks to when I first started fighting Muslim armies in MTW: "Gah! Just hold still, d*** you!"
Funny, that's still the situation in real life. We are very much like the heavy European Armies (Slow, Heavy, and Unstoppable) while they just "won't stand still and take a charge," prefering instead to use hit and run tactics and nibble at the flanks. Who doesn't believe that history repeats itself, or that the way our ancestors lived and fought doesn't manifest itself in our mindset today?