Re: Silly DS2 Q for Jon

Well that brings up another question for Jon: Is the smallest infantry
UNIT
in DS2 the squad or the platoon?

Paul

At 02:01 PM 5/15/97 -0400, you wrote:
>As I read the rules, any unit can be made up of any number of elements,
>effectively making a unit anything from a single squad (which really
>contains 8 individual element men which can't maneuver seperately) to a
>squad made up of four fireteam units, each of which is made up of two
>man elements.	Its a trade off between flexibility and power.
>
>The larger units have the advantage of taking /fewer/ morale checks,
>overall, because they don't check as often (or as badly) for each
>element/man lost therein.  Of course, they only get one Activation per
>turn, but when they unload fire, it'll be effective in the main.
>
>If you're going to be doing infantry-heavy actions, you may want to
pick
>up the StarGrunt II rules; the scale is much less abstracted therein
and
>the division of squads into units and elements is a bit more flexible.
>

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