Re: John's stuff

[Wright Frazier <khelek>]

*grin* You earned this. ;)

Napoleon.  He lost because he got over extended into Russia and lost the
final one when Wellington got the better ground and Napoleon was under
the weather.  Pure luck and coincidence that Napoleon lost.  While he
was over extended, he still could have won if he'd have been on his
game, which he wasn't.  Further Napoleon's problems have no
relevance to holding the nexus.

The Nazi's problem was one of over extension along a several thousand
mile front, an amature taking the reigns and trying to lead from thousands
of miles away (although a gifted amature), and one of bad luck.  The
Nazi's could have one if they'd have gotten the russian industrial
machine, but Stalin killed a few thousand of his own folks and moved
his entire industrial machine east of the urals where they were 
untouchable.  The Nazi's lost in the west because Rommel was away
at the time of the invasion of Normandy, and german officers while
creative and inventive when given leave to do so did not initiate
attacks without approval from Berlin.  Also by the time of Normandy
the German's had been ground down in Russia where MILLIONS of men
fought.  Also the German's had a million or so troops tied up in
holding a useless piece of realestate(Norway), these guys could
have turned the tide against the allies in the West and sealed
off the continent.  Then stablize the eastern front in say poland
or any convient mountain chain and then sit on europe for a decade.
The Nazi's just plain suffered from bad top end leadership when it
came down too it.  But again...this has no relevance to holding
the portal.

The Nexus is a single point that is nearly impossible to be flanked
from.  To do so you have to cooerdinate attacks from multiple 
worlds and hope that they don't wind up coming in from the same
direction.  If there Nexus is a corridor that you just walk down,
then your problems of attack are compounded into a frontal assault,
something that _ALWAYS_ heavily favors the defender.  You aren't
deailing with thousands of miles of front, or all sides having
industrial warmachines either, as with WWII.   Magic however will
somewhat make up for that, but not much.  Regardless, defending
a single point when you have warnings of what is coming and
an unassailable resupply point(your home world) you are going
to be nearly impossible to beat.

Wright

> Warring over the nexus is by deffinition starting a war on Multiple 
> fronts.  It destroyed Napoloen.  It destroyed Hitler.  Think your a 
> better military geneous than that, go ahead and give it a try.
> 
> Rick