Post by xdesperado on Nov 18, 2015 21:40:31 GMT -5
Thought a brief note on these terms might be in order.
Like a number of others on this forum I spent several years in real life serving in the military. As part of my job back then I had to understand the fundamental difference between these two terms.
Strategy in the military sense refers to the overall plans for larger organizations. A General or Admiral will develop a Strategy for a battle or campaign much like an Architect will draw up a set of blueprints for a building. He might say as part of his overall strategy that the forces at his command need to take such and such a hill and may even designate which of his forces are going to be responsible for that mission.
Tactics on the other hand is what occurs on the battlefield. How the individual Soldiers or small units accomplish the assigned task.
The General as his strategy decides that such and such infantry battalion is best suited for taking that hill. His strategy also outlines how they will be supplied and supported in carrying out that mission.
The battalion commander decides that tactically best way to take the hill is to send one company up one ridgeline and a second company up a seperate ridgeline and keep a third company in reserve to either reinforce with or to deploy in another route. Individual company commanders would further refine the tactics for each of their platoons and so on down to squad level. While there is some strategic planning at Battalion and even company levels the focus is much more on the tactics of completing the assigned mission. At squad level thats move here cover your teammate while he moves there watch for the enemy and kill him before he kills you.
How this applies to BF is that when your at the HQ screen you need to be thinking strategically. What Templars do I want/need for my team what roles do I intend to use them for and how can I best train and equip them for those roles.
Once you start a deployment the time for strategy is over and it's the tactics of getting the assignment completed. A good strategy will lay the groundwork for a successful deployment. Having the right Templar with the right Talents and Gear can make things fairly easy at times. However not having the right Templar ready to deploy can cause a lot of frustration and hardship.
I get in a level and find I need to have a Templar or two hold a location while the rest move on elsewhere but I've only deployed one Soldier and no Hydra or Neptune I might be in trouble. That's bad strategy on my part.
Now on the other hand say I've got a Hydra and Two Soldiers deployed but decide to leave my Engineer and Scout to defend the location and they get killed and I lose the position. That's bad Tactics on my part.
Anyways you need to have a good strategy and to employ sound tactics.
The Xeno are looking for a meal and failure to employ both good Strategy and Tactics is asking to get eaten.
Like a number of others on this forum I spent several years in real life serving in the military. As part of my job back then I had to understand the fundamental difference between these two terms.
Strategy in the military sense refers to the overall plans for larger organizations. A General or Admiral will develop a Strategy for a battle or campaign much like an Architect will draw up a set of blueprints for a building. He might say as part of his overall strategy that the forces at his command need to take such and such a hill and may even designate which of his forces are going to be responsible for that mission.
Tactics on the other hand is what occurs on the battlefield. How the individual Soldiers or small units accomplish the assigned task.
The General as his strategy decides that such and such infantry battalion is best suited for taking that hill. His strategy also outlines how they will be supplied and supported in carrying out that mission.
The battalion commander decides that tactically best way to take the hill is to send one company up one ridgeline and a second company up a seperate ridgeline and keep a third company in reserve to either reinforce with or to deploy in another route. Individual company commanders would further refine the tactics for each of their platoons and so on down to squad level. While there is some strategic planning at Battalion and even company levels the focus is much more on the tactics of completing the assigned mission. At squad level thats move here cover your teammate while he moves there watch for the enemy and kill him before he kills you.
How this applies to BF is that when your at the HQ screen you need to be thinking strategically. What Templars do I want/need for my team what roles do I intend to use them for and how can I best train and equip them for those roles.
Once you start a deployment the time for strategy is over and it's the tactics of getting the assignment completed. A good strategy will lay the groundwork for a successful deployment. Having the right Templar with the right Talents and Gear can make things fairly easy at times. However not having the right Templar ready to deploy can cause a lot of frustration and hardship.
I get in a level and find I need to have a Templar or two hold a location while the rest move on elsewhere but I've only deployed one Soldier and no Hydra or Neptune I might be in trouble. That's bad strategy on my part.
Now on the other hand say I've got a Hydra and Two Soldiers deployed but decide to leave my Engineer and Scout to defend the location and they get killed and I lose the position. That's bad Tactics on my part.
Anyways you need to have a good strategy and to employ sound tactics.
The Xeno are looking for a meal and failure to employ both good Strategy and Tactics is asking to get eaten.