RE: Boone's Company

Being a semi-independent you might want to build in more redundancy and
things 
to fight "Murphy".  Maybe a dedicated comms/computer operator in the
Mortar 
platoon.  Of course your Log types could also be "locally" procured like
16th 
century Artillery limbers!

Michael Brown

-----Original Message-----
From:	John Atkinson
Sent:	Thursday, April 04, 2002 9:36 AM
To:	gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject:	RE: Boone's Company

--- Michael Brown <mwbrown@sonic.net> wrote:
> A couple of questions:
> 1. Who or where is the FDC (Fire Direction Control)
> in the Weapons Platoon?

For the Mortars?  The Section leader handles that with
a high-speed semi-sentient AI mounted in the back of
his jeep.  Cheating, the SF way.

> 2. I assume that Sales/Marketing/Procurement are
> handled through a broker.

Yup.  But lawyers and business weenies generally don't
travel with unit, and if they do, they sit ensconsed
in an office building in the employer's capital city,
not in the field.

> 3. I would assume a larger logistics tail/redundancy
> within the platoons due to
> the semi-independent nature of a Merc unit.

Perhaps.  Maybe I should include a half-dozen generic
'truck drivers' who drive locally procured trucks to
supply whatever.

John

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