RE: Detachments in Stargrunt

Interesting.

If the attachment still has to make the leadership check, then the
action is
somewhat wasted, because the leader could have made the check for the
entire
unit, not just the attachment.

If the leader makes the leadership check (to remove suppression) for the
entire unit, why spend the extra action to make a detachment?

I guess that you could use a house rule to have the leader make the test
to
remove suppression for a detachment at some bonus (shift up?). It would
still use both actions of the leader, so the main unit would be unable
to do
anything (still under suppression).

It may be below the grandularity of SG. It is possible that this is what
is
being done when a leader tests to remove suppression and the detachment
automatically rejoins the unit when the suppression is lifted.

That leads to another question: If the unit A that is doing the
suppression
of unit B is killed/suppressed or otherwise no longer activly
suppressing,
does unit B automatically remove suppression? If not, then detaching a
part
of a unit to suppression the suppressors would have no effect.

The idea (detachment under suppression) is still a good idea, it just
needs
to be balanced. Automatic suppression lift for a detachment seems like
too
much to me (everyone would do it and the value of suppression would be
lessened since you could never suppress an entire unit).

I would suggest, also, that units under 2 suppression markers could not
do
this.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Stoda [mailto:stodas@flash.net]
Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 08:14
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Detachments in Stargrunt

I submitted this question to Mr. Tuffley, and his response is included
below.	He suggested I submit this question to the list, and so here it
is.  What are your thoughts?

>Question:
>
>Can a squad leader form a detachment while suppressed?  And, if so, is
>the detachment suppressed, or just the main unit?  [snip]

My initial reaction is that the SL could probably give the orders 
to part of the squad to form the detachment, but the detached 
subunit would still have to shake off its suppression before it 
could actually do anything;
[snip]

Jon (GZG)
>
>Thanks for your time.
>
>Randy Stoda