Post by Tony Blair on May 16, 2009 20:23:01 GMT -5
The thing with putting a genny inside a darkened building or at least as I have observed is that smart zombies will usually leave the lights on to clear the building out because their attacks suffer from darkness as well. Still maintaining a genny would be more useful if we actually plan to hold a building, but under the old hit and run tactics when one building becomes too compromised we just accept it's gone and move on.
Holding a building wouldn't be such a bad deal if we could successfully do it, but these days we can't even guarantee that we're going to have an NT building. That means we can't risk needless casualties.
A final consideration is that genys send the message that "hey we're holding onto this building" not only to the zeds but to the unaffiliated survivors as well. The unaffiliated survivors want the false security of well stacked safe house but we need them to stay hermits. We actually don't want people to cluster we want them to spread thin for two reasons. First it spreads the zombies thin as well and makes our barricades more useful, and secondly it actually reduces our casualties. The zombies cheat and use spies or else they just get lucky. But one way or the other they will find where the large safe houses are and target them with overwhelming force. Spreading our numbers out prevents them from doing just that which in turn keeps them from scoring a crushing blow. Though I suppose the same doesn't apply for a radio transmitter those could be useful as decoys (although they don't make the most tempting of targets to the zeds).
Holding a building wouldn't be such a bad deal if we could successfully do it, but these days we can't even guarantee that we're going to have an NT building. That means we can't risk needless casualties.
A final consideration is that genys send the message that "hey we're holding onto this building" not only to the zeds but to the unaffiliated survivors as well. The unaffiliated survivors want the false security of well stacked safe house but we need them to stay hermits. We actually don't want people to cluster we want them to spread thin for two reasons. First it spreads the zombies thin as well and makes our barricades more useful, and secondly it actually reduces our casualties. The zombies cheat and use spies or else they just get lucky. But one way or the other they will find where the large safe houses are and target them with overwhelming force. Spreading our numbers out prevents them from doing just that which in turn keeps them from scoring a crushing blow. Though I suppose the same doesn't apply for a radio transmitter those could be useful as decoys (although they don't make the most tempting of targets to the zeds).