Re: How big is a troopship? [DS/FT/SG2] (and what it all means)

In a message dated 9/23/99 8:35:26 PM Central Daylight Time,
los@cris.com 
writes:

<< 
 There's a very simple tactical principle that has been learned the hard
way. 
When
 going into the assault (or the unknown) lead of with your smallest
tactical 
element.
 This way if it gets hit you don't lose too much and you can react with
your 
other
 forces. Send a company or battalion down onto a contested landing in
one big 
ship your
 deserve what you get. Corrolary to this is that modern firepower
requires 
dispersion.
 Again this flies in the fface of using large landers for assault
operations. 
BTW keep
 in mind you can deploy a landing battalion landing force a lot quicker
in 
many
 platoon-sized landers than you can in one huge lander where they all
make 
lucrative
 target >>

Absolutely! Big landers would only come down when the landing zone is
very 
secure, they would also need harder pads to land on in all likelihood.