Re: Detachments & actions in SG2 (attn jon)

Bruce S. R. Lee wrote:
> I have been re-reading the rules for detachments in SG2, and I seem
> to have found an anomoly.

I think this has come up before, I don't think it's an anomoly.

> The rules seem to state fairly clearly that to charge, a Unit must
> have 2 actions which are expended by the charge. In the section
> dealing with detachments, it gives an example for the reasons for
> detaching a group as "detaching a SAW gunner and his loader as fire
> support while the rest of the squad charges...". 
> 
> As I read it, the leader loses one action immediately and has to use
> the other one to activate the  SAW detachment if he wants fire
> support ( the detachment then gets 2 actions). If the leader stays
> with the main body, he does not have enough actions to charge, and
> if he stays with the SAW detachment, he does not have enough actions
> to order the firesupport.

You're assuming that everything takes place in one activation.
Why should this be the case?

Activation One.
Unit moves into position. (1 action)
Assault element splits off (1 action)

(I believe it is current real world practice for the squad leader to
stay with the fire suppport section not the assault section. Any
infantrymen out there care to confirm or refute this?)

Activation Two.
Fire support section fires. (1 action)
Squad leader activates assault element. (1 action)
Assault element now has two actions with which to close assault.

If you want to speed the entire process up, then get a higher officer 
to reactivate the unit, so that both activations occur in the same 
turn.

The only problem is that the enemy get at least one  activation in
beteeen your two. 
Unless....
Is it possible for a Lieutenant to use both his actions to reactivate 
the same squad. The rules imply not (they say you can activate two 
squads with your two actions) but do not explicitly state that you 
can't (they don't say that the two squads can not be the same).
If this allowed then you can do it one activation, the lieutenat's 
rather than the squad's.

	Steve

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