RE: [SGish] APC question

At 12:46 PM +1000 8/12/01, Fulton, Beth (CMR, Hobart) wrote:
>G'day,
>
>First up, sorry Ryan I've probably sent you half a dozen duplicates
this
>morning as I'm having to use Outlook of the net (not a pleasant
experience)
>and to reply to the list I have to reply to all and remember to cut out
the
>individual who originally sent it... and my memory ain't that good.

ick...make sure you disinfect your hands... :-P

> >I'd suspect it's just like that "retreat" call.
>
>Having absolutely no military experience, I take it when a "retreat"
goes up
>everybody just listens ( as if someone says it that mean it) or does
some
>one try and impose order on the situation (e.g. Sarge) if its not what
they
>want to see happening?

Depends on the situation, leadership and quality of the troops. Look 
at it this way, The troops are green, they start taking some heavy 
fire and all begin to panic. Likely given a chance some will just 
run, others will cower. You'll get situations where some yahoo 
decides its time to fall back and yells "retreat". If the troops are 
poor quality, they may just do that regardless of what the 
officers/NCOs are able to do/say.

Extend that to a tank or APC. A tank will work a bit different given 
that I hope that crew has worked together more than infantry riding 
in an APC will have.

Take a hypothetical, the APC takes an RPG in the side. Someone gets 
hit by the spall off the inside armour. So you get some screaming, 
some yelling, some smoke and lots of confusion right after a big 
*BOOM!* The grunts riding along will likely bail before the crew 
does. I'd suspect in game terms that'd almost be two leadership rolls 
if the grunts are not organic to the APC.

If you really want to get into it rolling for individual crewmen may 
do it right, but that may be too granular. I'd suggest a good old 
confidence check. They fail, they bail. Split grunts that don't 
report to the TC off as a different set of checks.

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