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Originally Posted by SydneyFreedberg
Because vehicles pay for armor, but infantry doesn't pay for terrain, I realized. Someone else built the building you're hiding in; God or nature made those mountains; you didn't have to. That's basically the reason why lowly foot troops, properly dug in, tend to survive all sorts of high-firepower, high-tech assaults -- witness the battle of Monte Cassino in WWII.
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And this is why one always reserves some "conventional" BE-capable rounds for one's BE-capable weapons. For an example: Play out the infantry assault encounter in _Grand Theft Autoduel_, with and without BE weapons.