Despite the fact that it is still a game....for me personally I still feel a sense of responsibility to not recklessly toss the lives of my men Assuming one is not patroling with the heart of a coward....one must remember it is very easy to order "Be more agressive" from the fourth sub-basement of a bunker in Berlin. It is quite another thing to execute those orders where survival is forecast as very close to zero. A boat at the bottom of the Atlantic with all hands makes no further contribution to the defense of the homeland. I want to balance the max damage to the enemy with surviving to fight several successful patrols. I'm not going to avoid a fight, but I'm also not going to conduct a suicide attack unless the risk/reward ratio or necessity demands it. As we said in the Teams: The government spent a lot of time and money training your ass....your getting killed is a waste of that time and money. Do not allow that to happen." Or, as Patton said: "You do not win wars by dying for your country; you win by making the other SOB die for his". But then again...maybe I'm carrying "realism" a little too far for a game.
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