Talk:Overmatch

Usage?

"X overmatches Y"? "X has an overmatch as compared against Y"? The way the article is written now, the reader has no clue. The building blocks of the word are comprehensible, but otherwise it could just as well be "lkjhgfdsa". 89.64.25.44 (talk) 14:18, 23 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The term is shorthand for specific situations which present 'multiple simultaneous dilemmas'. Imagine some snapshot of a scenario (as in the movie 'the good, the bad, and the ugly')— say, a thief with hand in a cookie jar, standing balanced on the saddle of a horse; Clint Eastwood has just lobbed a noose around the neck of the thief while training his sixgun on the rope of the noose; if the thief releases the cookie, he is not yet free to run away, because Clint Eastwood still controls the noose, while the ugly is fixated on the cookie jar.
See Conflict continuum, which was formulated in the aftermath of WWII. It is possible to write specific scenarios which trivialize the concept to cookie jars, but the possible scenarios are clearly not static, but rather evolving and evolvable (and perhaps evolutionary, for armies). --Ancheta Wis   (talk | contribs) 00:50, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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