Re: Stargrunt II

>The one thing I don't understand is why people would field a bigger
squad 
>than five members if they were using any weapon of firepower 3, or a 
>seven man squad if using a weapon of firepower 2.  With four riflemen 
>armed with firepower 3 rifles backed up with an SAW man, you've just 
>achieved your maximum efficiency--a d12 for the riflemen and then the
SAW 
>as the second action (or Pig, or IAVR or whatever).  What good would 
>seven riflemen do?  Aside from helping out as soon as you take 
>casualties?  I know, I know, call me a "power gamer" but this is a
little 
>too much of a rules loophole, unless I'm totally missing something.

You could always use one action to fire some (half?) of the squads
weapons
and the second action to fire the rest. This way you'd not waste any
firepower and you could shoot at either two enemy squads (as long as it
can
be said they both represent an equal threat value) or if you shoot at
the
same squad, you really have a chance to rack up their suppression, and
hopefully kill a few.
And then you could always use a higher leader to activate the unit so
they
can do other things.

-Greg