Alas, my wife tried to enter into the fray, way back in the days of basic SL/GI Anvil Of Victory. The attempt failed due to the following....mishaps. "Ok hon, this piece here represents a flamethrower." (Remember for a second what the old SL FT counters looked like.) "Hmm, looks like a cat on a hook to me." "Ok, let's nevermind the ft for now. Ok, this piece represents a half squad." What's a half squad?" "Well it has half as many guys as a full squad, so about 5 guys." "But there are only two on the counter." "Right, so if you have to think of each printed guy representing two and a half guys." "How can you have half a guy, that's silly."
At this point the game was put away, I thanked Ann for her efforts and that was that.