Re: Troop Capacity

You wrote: 

>Yeah, this has always kind of bothered me as well.  Basically, 
something >that was the size of a battleship could only carry a combat 
company?  >This implies that starships are extremely volume 
inefficient.  Now, you >can argue anything you want (after all, it's a 
game! (8-) ), but I guess >I read Starship Troopers too many times, (or 
maybe Crusade (8-) )and want >the ability to drop entire divisions if 
necessary.  

Again--I'm being a little deviant (different FTL, Different Major 
powers, Different troop capacities.  Any other game company would have 
sent around the fellas with the ax handles by now.  ;).  But in 
Starship Troopers, a corvette (Rodger Young) carried a platoon of Power 
Armored men.  And that's at about 60 to a platoon, as they have two 
sections of three squads each.	Which comes to a total of twenty 
elements of PA, or a short company in my background, given an 8 element 
platoon and 3 men to an element.  And the history I've worked up does 
involve multiple Corps assaulting planets--I'm assuming the Tagmata can 
be moved in it's entirety.

John M. Atkinson