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Posted by Stone_Wolf_ (Member # 8299) on :

Link.

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Warning, This Slip-up will spoil a minor part in the Plot.
The Battle school trains its students on Hand to Hand or "Melee" combat. Why are they teaching Hand to Hand combat, when all of the Bugger fights happen in Spaceships? Isn't that called "Missile" combat?
But, aside from that, "Ender's Game" is one of the best Books ever

At least they say that part at the end about best books ever.

Posted by TheSeeingHand (Member # 8349) on :

WTF? They teach them hand-to-hand combat? They use those gun-things and suits in the battleroom.

If they teach melee it must like, a side course type of thing. And besides, according the the histories, the Buggers would board people's ships and fight them hand-to-hand. Remember!?

Posted by calaban (Member # 2516) on :

Any form of combat can teach you something about another. Anyway as I recall it was an option to take the hand to hand combat classes. I think poeple getting nitpicky about things that may not even be an issue is an artless conceit.

[ September 03, 2005, 09:06 AM: Message edited by: calaban ]

Posted by TheSeeingHand (Member # 8349) on :

"I think poeple getting nitpicky about things that may not even be an issue is an artless conceit."

I second that.

Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :

aren't you guys getting nitpicky over that little part of the article?

Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :

um, Ender only took a hand-to-hand combat course because he was fearing for his life. He ordered vids--that's hardly 'taking a class' on it. (is nitpicky).

Or am I missing something? [Confused]

Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :

I believe that the point was to teach them to think in three dimensions when they're used to thinking in two.

Try playing Homeworld for the first time after playing games like CNC. It's hard.

--j_k

Posted by calaban (Member # 2516) on :

descent -Best Game Ever-

hehe. I love homeworld as well.

What's quoted above is not an article so much as a post, it seems that the site it originated from is a forum rather than somthing like IMDB.

I think reading new fiction is a lot more fun than scouring the fiction I've read for the inevitable descrepancies that a work produced by someone delightfully human probably contain.

Edited because I persist in dropping the 'e' from someone. heh.

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

It's an elective.

Guess what: they have boxing at the US Naval Academy as well. For all the times sailors will have to use their fists to subdue their enemies. [Smile]

Posted by SpEeDMaSTeR (Member # 7568) on :

quote:
Originally posted by sarcasticmuppet:
um, Ender only took a hand-to-hand combat course because he was fearing for his life. He ordered vids--that's hardly 'taking a class' on it. (is nitpicky).

Or am I missing something?

Ender took an elective class in hand to hand fighting, as did Bonzo Madrid. He chose to take a melee fighting class simply because he feared for his own physical safety, though the class was clearly offered for another reason. In the book it states that Ender watched the vids of the first and second invasions as the soldiers boarded the bugger ships and fought with them, or in the case of Mazer Rackham's victory, entering ships where the buggers were all entirely dead or lifeless.