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Re: Ogre in DSII? (and DS unit organisation)

From: ScottSaylo@a...
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:25:42 EDT
Subject: Re: Ogre in DSII? (and DS unit organisation)

In a message dated 6/25/99 9:08:59 AM EST, jeremy.claridge@kcl.ac.uk
writes:

<< 
 Armoured Combat Group
 2 light tanks
 1 medium tank
 1 Missile vehicle (either multiple GMS/H or SLAM)
 
 Infantry Combat Group
 2 light tanks
 2 medium APC's (2 squads in each)
 1 IFV (GMS capacity and 1 Squad)
 
 I found that this gave my opponents a lot of problems because of the 
 range of weapons available to the groups was far greater than if all
the 
 vehicles in a unit were the same.
  >>

This is very typical of current US military doctrine with the "Task
Force" 
concept you would find one or two platoons of either infantry or armor
and 
one platoon of the other, mixing it to the platoon level hasn't proved 
effective yet, but I'm not sure if the fact is that the bigwigs just
aren't 
moving the concept along because they like it the way it is or not.


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