[ASLML] ELR

[ASL]

I've always "understood" it to represent a variety of things: loss of a key 
man or two; onset of battle fatigue; ordinary lack-of-sleep fatigue (very 
common in battle), etc.

craig



At 06:54 AM 12/03/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>Time for you guys to put me straight again.
>
>I was trying to walk through some infantry basics with
>a guy who had never played the game. I also am fairly
>new to the game, so it was a 'look up' session for
>many of his questions.
>
>When we got to a situation where a unit suffered ELR
>reduction, I was able to give the mechanics of the
>rule, but wasn't able to explain what ELR actually
>represented.
>
>"during the course of play, each of these units is
>subject to possible replacement by poorer quality
>squads/HS, depending on the interaction of fire, fate,
>and the prior experience level of the unit".
>
>His question was: shouldn't experience in combat make
>you more effective at handling future situations, not
>less effective?
>
>I suggested that ELR probably represented the loss of
>a guy or two within the squad (and thus decreasing the
>squad's overall effectiveness). Or at least the
>loss/breaking of a weapon or two, again reducing it's
>overall effectiveness.
>
>Does anybody have a more enlightened explanation to
>help someone 'visualize' what ELR represents?
>
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