Re: [SG2] articulation and efficiency

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000 12:39:46 -0400 , "Bell, Brian K"
<Brian_Bell@dscc.dla.mil>
wrote:

>More articulation either means that you have to increase the 
>leadership hierarchy OR there will be more units that will not
>gain benefit from leadership reactivation.

This... "depends". You are quite right, but the degree to which this
helps
depends on the size of the forces.

It's a bigger advantage in a small scenario. If one side has 3 squads of
8
figures plus a command squad against a force of 6 squads of 4 figures
plus a
command squad, a leader for the larger side could re-activate 2/3 of the
force's squad. The force with the smaller squads could only activate
2/6, or
1/3 of the total number of squads.

In a larger scenario, with -- say -- twice the number of regular squads,
the
force with the big squads could re-activate 1/3 of it's total, while the
force
with the smaller squads could reactivate 1/6. The proportion of
"un-re-activated" squads gets smaller and smaller. 

Another thing, once squads start taking suppression markers, a greater
proportion of the force with large squads is "pinned" due to
suppression. This
will have a balancing effect against the leadership activation effect.

Allan Goodall		       awg@sympatico.ca
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