Re: going to try SGII

Andy spake thusly upon matters weighty: 
> About how much should I weight powered armor troopers against regular?

Depends on type of PA and troop quality. I'd guess that two squads of 
4 veterans with Advanced Assault Rifles and Partial Armour might be 
equivalent to a squad of 4 Regulars in Heavy PA. Maybe about two for 
one, but the less armour and lower quality the unarmoured troops are, 
the less well they will stand up. I don't use much PA because I think 
it is meant as a stiffener in the official setting rather than as a 
main force component. They tend to be high quality troops, so hence 
should be rare to begin with, and the armour is expensive and has a 
logistics trail to maintain. Ask Aaron Teske about how fast one squad 
of five guys in PA can destroy a squad of non-PA.... (1 round, no 
losses)

> Space Marines
> I guess this would be a platoon.  (Not too familiar with military
> terminology, either.)

Organization Levels (Roughly):
Fire Team - 2-3 guys
Squad/Section - 2-3 fireteams
Platoon - 2-4 sections/squads
Company - 2-4 platoons
Battalion - 2-4 companies
etc. etc. 

> I'm saying that their boltguns are advanced assault rifles (2, D10),
and
> that the support weapons are D10 D10.  (Not sure I understand this
> yet.)  Heavy PA have storm bolters, which I'm calling (3, D10).

Reasonable
 
> All are slow PA.

Good choice. I'd say the way you stat them, they're worth 1.8 to 2.2 
normal guys. As fast PA, that would be 2.0 to 2.5. 

> Command Squad
> Commander (Epic chaplain fig) + 3 marines + 2 support marines
> (devastators)
> small arms FP 2, I D10     support (2 of 'em) D10 D10
> Leadership 1 or 2, Elite

Elite status and good leadership counts for something too when 
weighing opposition.  

> Questions:
> Can an individual figure have both a small arm and a support weapon? 

Yes, but it doesn't mean much. Unless you were tracking ammo, and 
most people don't, why would you ever use the small weapon? At 
anything over 15 feet, I'd be nuts not to use my rifle even if I had 
a pistol. 

> Can he shoot both in an action?  For instance, the robot fig looks
like
> it has two weapons, and I was going to say it had one support weapon
and
> one equivalent to the 3, D10 weapon carried by the termies. 

Robot might be a special case where you allow it to fire as a normal 
weapon as one fire action and a support as the other (also fire) 
action.

 Can it add
> both to a shot?

Could do it that way too. 

>  I suppose this would be too much for a regular infantry

Tis nasty no doubt. 

> These guys will be facing Imperial Guard epic troops.  I haven't
worked
> them out yet, but I'm picturing squads of a commander, 2 heavy
weapons,
> and 5 grunts.  Small arms are 2 D8, support D8 D10.

Better insure you've got at minimum a 1.5 to one ratio, but if these 
guys are lower motivation, lower leadership, lower troop quality, and 
lower armour, I'd suggest at least 2.0 to one. 
 
 
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