Moment by Moment
"Then he'll underestimate you. Unless you think his low opinion might be correct." ~Colonel Graff
<<September 5, 2000>>
"This won't be easy," you had been told. "This enemy unit is elite, and their Commander is no fool. Don't try some cheap stunt, you'll only get yourself hurt."
"What do you recommend I do?" you had asked.
"Be careful. Feel out their defenses, get an idea for what you're up against before you commit yourself."
"I'll take it moment by moment," you had promised.
Fifteen minutes later, the whistle sounded and the fight began. You stayed behind while your nine subordinates fanned out in a cone to probe the battlefield with orders to return at the first sign of trouble, or within a minute. Three minutes later, all your forces were back, some slightly damp, with reports of drenched foes. The enemies were on the retreat.
You had redoubled your caution. You advanced slowly, but always advanced, and now the enemy was bottled up in a small clearing in the dense woods. They were dodging between trees and laying down enough cover fire to make a charge annoying for you, but certainly doable. Bombardment wasn't a feasible option, though, and the game was going to be over in another 10 minutes, so siege wasn't going to get you anything.
"Darnit, this has been too easy. Why?" you demand.
"Maybe its the weaponry," someone suggests. "I don't think they see CPS weapons very often, and I know they don't have any. We're heavily armed."
You look at your troops, and see two 3000s, three 2500s, a 2000, two 1500s, and two 1000s. You've been defending yourself with your personal 310 because your arm gets too tired trying to use CPS weapons.
"What do they have?" you ask for the third time.
"Mostly rifle-size weapons -- 310s, 110s, 105s, 150s, 175s. They've got a few smaller and a couple big ones, like 250-range. Nothing that compares," someone answers tirelessly. You were really beginning to like the troops in this unit -- obedient, but they took just the right amount of initiative, and they were being very tolerant of the roundabout way you've been taking this battle.
Knowing you have to come up with a plan of attack and score a decisive victory soon if you want this battle considered won, you quickly begin to give orders . . .
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