Re: [DSII] Dozy question re: Command/Communications

In article <5.1.0.14.1.20021205064612.00a17b30@m1.853.telia.com>, Oerjan
Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@telia.com> writes
>Symon Cook wrote:
>
>> >>How big does you on table force need to be before it needs a C/C
System?
>> >
>> >Zero elements.
>>
>>So in a farcical example, if I field one element, it has to have a C/C
>>system? Or if one Infantry element, that element has to have an
emplaced
>>C/C? Not sure I buy either of those.
>
>That's what the rules suggest, yes. If it does not have a C/C system,
it 
>suffers the appropriate effects - ie., it can't rally. (Of course it
most 
>likely won't *need* to rally either since it will almost inevitably be 
>destroyed first,

Sad but true.

> but if it did need to it wouldn't be able to.)

Hmm.

>
>> >>What if it doesn't have one.
>> >
>> >Then it can't rally any of its units.
>>
>>Again, I expect an elite platoon of commando ought to be able to self
>>rally.
>
>Since you can't field elite (Red quality) commandoes in DS2 anyway
without 
>using house rules, I don't see this as a very significant problem :-/

As I said, I'm tossing out extreme situations.

>
>If you want a game where one side has a single platoon of elite troops
and 
>nothing else, use SG2 or FMA:Skirmish (to be published Any Year Now
<g>) 
>instead - they're much, much better suited to fights that small.

That's not what I'm after to be honest. (Don't have SG2 and I haven't
managed to get the FMA rules either).

No, the reason I ask is that I'm doing an extensive GROPOS -> DSII
conversion, which with the demise of AoG seems particular required.
It's going to have 3 parts. Rules Modifications, Direct Conversion of
the published material, and a heavily amended and recommended section,
which will replace the silly vehicles, technology and other
unsatisfactory aspects of GROPOS.

Naturally, I then intend to make this freely available to interested
parties.
Cheers
-- 
Symon Cook (founder member of Camros)(The Campaign for Real Operating
Systems).
.....
"You fertility deities are worse than Marxists," he said. "You think
that's all 
that goes on between people."

Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light. 1971.