RE: OUDF organisation.

Tony, no flame wars from me! The OU is a big enough place on Earth let
alone the rest of Known Space!

My only comment is regards the Light Horse. If you look at Darryl Adams
examination of the model and his suggested stats (which look pretty
good) the SAW option is really only viable as a fixed weapon on the
riders 'mount'. And if the Grav Bikes have so mush firepower why weigh
it down further with extra weapons rarely used?

Anyway, Jon T has stated over and over that the rules are generic, no
fixed univers so go for it!

> ----------
> From: 	Tony Wilkinson[SMTP:twilko@ozemail.com.au]
> Reply To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Sent: 	Thursday, 10 July 1997 20:26
> To:	FTGZG-L@bolton.ac.uk
> Subject:	OUDF organisation.
> 
>	  G'day, I hope I'm not about to start a flame war.
>	  For over a month now since seeing the first OUDF figures at
> SAGA
> (first weekend in June) I have been thinking about how to organise
> small
> units for SGII. Now I will point out that I dont have much experience
> of
> SGII, as the blokes in the club I belong to are still getting their
> figures
> (and themselves) together, but what I came up with made sense to me. I
> will
> also point out that Owen Glover has already had his ideas for a TOE
> posted
> on the net. Anyway here goes.
> 
>	  Infantry.
>	  Basic squad, which I termed a Maniple is 5 men, 4 riflemen
> plus 1
> with SAW making two fireteams (3 rifles, SAW + rifle)
>	  2 such squads with one rifle man replacing his(her) rilfe with
> SMG
> and GMS/L   make up a Section.
>	  3 sections plus a command section make a platoon. Command
> section
> consists of a basic squad plus a command squad of CO, 2IC and 3 man
> Comms/EW
> team all with SMG
> 
>	  Light Horse.
>	  Basic squad is 4 troopers on bikes. They dismount to produce a
> single fireteam of 2 rifles + SAW leaving the fourth trooper with the
> bikes.(Very "Light Horse" thing to do)
>	  2 squads make a section (Troop).
>	  3 Troops plus a command Troop make a platoon (Squadron).
> Command
> Troop has a Basic squad (led by 2IC) plus command squad of CO and 3
> man
> Comms/EW team as for the standard infantry platoon.
> 
>	  Power Armour.
>	  No squads. 6 man section is smallest unit. This consists of
> Section
> leader (SECO) with APW, comms gear, trooper with MG, trooper with
> Support
> weapon (Plasma gun, GMS, MG...) and 3 troopers with APW, one may have
> over-the-shoulder-rockets (OTSR).
>	  3 sections plus command section make a platoon. Command
> section is
> the same as a standard platoon but replaces OTSR with comms gear.
> 
>	  Well thats my two bob's worth. By the way, I know this is a
> bit late
> as most of the post concerning the smaller Nations was some time ago,
> but
> while playing at SAGA everybody KNEW that my fleet was the OU fleet
> even
> though it includes figures from NAC, NSL, ESU, FSE and several from
> other
> manufacturers. Another player had an unmistakable Zulu fleet. What set
> these
> fleets apart was the paint job. That's not to say I'm a great painter,
> I'm
> not, but that the idea of painting native designs used in rock
> paintings
> onto my mini's, worked. Besides what will really set the big boys
> apart from
> the second rank is the number of ships of a given size that are
> availiable.
> For example both Australia and US use the Oliver Perry Hazard class
> FFG's.
> To the Americans they are little more than patrol craft, they have
> about 40
> of them. In the R.A.N. they are major fleet units, we have 8 out of a
> total
> "combat" strength of 12 ships.
> 
>	  Tony Wilkinson.
>	  twilko@ozemail.com.au
>	  "There is nothing new in the world,
>	  the trick is to think of it again."
>