Who brings a knife to a gun-fight?

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Tomsdad

Someone once described a standard warhammer 40k battle (two roughly equal armies lining up approx 100 yards away from each other) as something having gone badly wrong for both sides.

Most tactically interesting scenarios involve significant mistakes. If only one side makes mistakes, you wind up with either no fight or a slaughter, depending on whether the side that didn't make a mistake was weaker or stronger than the side that did.