Re: Troop Capacity

On 12 Jun 98 at 17:51, Daryl Lonnon wrote:

> Let's assume we want 10 million troops to invade a world.
> We've decided to freeze them (suspended animation), for the trip
> out. And a gestimate of 3 times the "space" of a frozen trooper for
> his kit.

Well, it's only my preference, but I'd rather not assume that you 
would want to use 10 million troops to assualt a planet. My 
preference, as already stated is extremely well trained, very well 
armed and supported troops.

Economics if anything... the supply line for 10 million people would 
be horrendous, and if the opposing fleet turns up and cuts you off... 
there go 10 million troops into captivity, rather a dent and 
political disaster, goverments topple.. While 10,000 troops have a 
thousand times fewer families (voters) and you still have a pool of 
9,990,000 people to recruit and train.
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