Re: Stargrunt WWII conversion

You wrote: 

>For our first games we just picked command and quality markers at 
>random from the pot. This meant that my BEF infantry platoon was 
>lucky enough to have two red squads :-) with class-2 and class-3 
>officers :-(. The German SS recce squad was given their only red 
>marker which, since they were quite a large squad, made them very 
>powerful. in future on we'll select the chits a bit better (ie we'll 
give >the French most of the green and yellow ones). 

Does everyone else pull chits at random from the entire collection 
provided?  I don't throw yellow ones into the mix unless it's a 
non-military force on the board--I figure street cops _might_ be so 
inexperienced in firefights as to pull those.  Or not, if from Beirut, 
or Belfast.  :) Mobs certaintly would count as this, as would Iranian 
or Iraqi militia.  Red chits don't show up unless we're dealing with 
elements of a truly elite force--Rangers, 307th Engineers, SAS, Foreign 
Legion Paras, Green Beanies, etc.  And I weight the chits for other 
forces.  For example, militia batallions not only have crappy 
equipment, they pick from green and regular chits only.  Regulars from 
good quality formations with combat experience and/or superb training 
(i.e., my Tagmatic troops, Waffen-SS, 3rd Army in WWII, US/UK troops in 
Desert Storm) pick from only regular and veteran chits, etc.  

John M. Atkinson