The Chaos Factor

[Colonel Talvela]

I agree with a "chaos principle" in principle - but it has to balanced with the much more important principle of - "never fight a fair fight." For me, I dont send my troops/AFVs into FOW land hoping for the best. I would rather get LOS to entire map, and then find a place to initiate the "chaos principle".

So I like the "platoon around the back of the map" maneouver, or the "AFV to the enemy rear" maneouver, but I never do those blind and hope for the best. Because if by sending a couple of tanks down the road, the best you could reasonably hope for is an even trade off, then IMO it is a bad idea. eg. if you have a couple of stuarts and you want to introduce some chaos, dont just send them blind. Find a lane where they have a reasonably high chance of making it through MLR and into the enemy rear. But even that isnt enough. You need to combine that with another concentrated attack, and knock your opponent off balance.

Of course my favorite "chaos maneouver" is the couter-attack while defending. But again, I dont just send a platoon off at the start of a game and hope they run into some unsuspecting heavy weapons teams. I wait and watch and wait and watch for the right moment to do some real damage.