From:	Chris Siebenmann <cks@********.UTCS.TORONTO.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Supressing Fire.
Date:	Fri, 11 Dec 92 19:21:34 -0500

| The reasoning behind this is; no matter how much you say you are
| clearing foilage, you are not TRYING to clear foilage-- you are trying to
| kill folks.

Not according to experience in WW II and Korea.
A *huge* percentage of people in combat do not actually shoot at the
enemy. At best they shoot overhead; at worst they don't shoot at all.
(also contemplate the rounds expended/people killed ratio for WW II and
later wars, if you want to; Vietnam is particularly visible in this
respect)

Things I've seen have all said that suppression fire is real, and that
its effects are real. I see no reason to doubt them, and good reason to
want something to mimic that effect in a game, if only so that the PCs
can use it on the NPCs.

It's quite remarkable, really, how heroic everyone (PCs and NPCs)
behaves in games; they take actions quite out of proportion to what
people do in real life.

- cks