Posted on Dec 13, 2015
CPL Cavalry Scout
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I know I'm going to get some crap for this lol. Any all military CoC clans out there?
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MSgt Curtis Ellis
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Wow... I must be old... I would give you some crap for this, but I have no idea what the heck we're talking about... Anybody care to translate for an old vet???
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Capt Richard I P.
Capt Richard I P.
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It's a mobile game on phones, I think it belongs to the mobile real time tactics (often misnomer-ed to real time strategy) category. It involves catrooney skeletons and scotsmen and archers and such battling it up. They advertise it on TV pretty often or I wouldn't even know that much.
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MSgt Curtis Ellis
MSgt Curtis Ellis
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Capt Richard I P. - Hell, I thought this was military related because the acronym CoC! LMAO!!!
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MSG Intermediate Care Technician
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Hard to get crap for something us old bastards don't understand. I see CoC and I think Chain of Command. I'm gathering you mean something else, though.
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Capt Richard I P.
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You kids with your mobile gaming, why back in my day all we had was 64 bits on a nintendo, and then later an xbox....and we liked it!
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Capt Richard I P.
Capt Richard I P.
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by the by CPL (Join to see) The above was a joke. I'm more interested in what lessons you're taking from the game that you can apply to your profession? Or Business? Or Life in general. Games are often maligned by people who don't understand them, but also sometimes played by people who don't think enough about the connections and lessons they can teach. I'll bet you're not one of them. I bet you've got some applicable ideas.
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CPL Cavalry Scout
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I have no doubt it was a joke. I'm sure when you all had your N64s, Vietnam era vets said the same thing to you. But to answer your question, no, I do not take any lessons from the game, unless dominating the world is a realistic lesson I can take lol.
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Capt Richard I P.
Capt Richard I P.
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CPL (Join to see) There are lessons to be taken. To analogize another game that might have similar mechanics: in Rome Total War a general set of rules is this: spear-men beat cavalry, cavalry beat archers, archers attrite swordsmen and spearmen, swordsmen generally beat spearmen and cavalry slays anyone who is running except sometimes cavalry. So in the game this drives integrated tactics: you protect your archers with spearmen, you manuever with swordsmen to kill the enemy's and you hold cavalry in reserve to exploit.

This ports to the modern era: direct fire beats indirect fire at close range, direct fire MGs beat rifles at medium range, IDF attrites everything but armor at long range, armor beats almost everything at long range, riflemen beat everything up close and out of line of MG fire, but at high casualty costs. So.... what is the role of a cavalry scout, what does he beat? What beats him? How does that connect to his forebearers in roman times?

I'm sure similar lessons exist in COC, you might just have to work to find them.
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Maj Matt Hylton
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Capt Richard I P. - you make me feel old, back in my day all we had as 8 bits on a Nintendo and a black and white Gameboy . . . and we liked it!
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