Re: SG2 ] Points System

[agoodall@xxxxxxx]

Laserlight wrote:

> True, but a team with 4 guys at FP3 is a lot more fragile than one with 
> 12 guys at FP1, so there ought to be a cost-per-troop, perhaps in 
> addition to a cost-per-squad.

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Another thing is that two 4-man squads require 2 suppressions to make them totally ineffective while one 8-man squad needs only one suppression. (The flip side is that the two squads need to take two rolls or spend two actions to remove all suppression, while a large squad requires only one). 

If you have two squads going at one squad, even though the number of men is equal the two smaller squads have a much better chance of keeping the bigger squad suppressed. The big squad could split fire and attempt to suppress both small squads, but it can't do anything else, and can only do _that_ if it wasn't itself suppressed. The two small squads can fire at the big squad and move. The bigger squad has a better chance of causing casualties, but I think this is offset by the lack of flexibility.

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