Leader Replacement

Funnily enough at Platoon Level, the Platoon Sergeant will generally
have a
much better grasp of tactical combat than the Platoon Commander unless
the
Army/Military Officer promotion scheme revolves around promoting from
the
ranks. A junior officer graduates from the Academy, spends one or two
years
(maybe three?) as a Platoon Commander and then moves on to other
postings;
staff training maybe specialist platoon etc.

The Sergeant will have spent maybe 6 to 10 years in his trade before
making
Platoon Sergeant rank and in most cases will have participated in dozens
if
not more platoon/company operations.

In game turns I would be inclined to see the Platoon Comd replacement
have a
higher chance of a better Leadership.

1,2,3 Better

4,5 Same

6 worse
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** Owen, your background as a platoon sergeant (bias? nay! not our
Owen!) is showing <*big grin*>
** FWIW, you might be right. Though I think in some armies an Lt. stays
in the job longer than in others.
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At squad/section level it may be a little different Generally the Squad
Leader/Section Commander is the senior and most experienced soldier.
Anyone
who replaces him is most likely to be of equal skill or worse rather
than
better.

1 Better

2,3,4 Same

5,6 Worse
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** Well, I'd agree with that, except that I've seen a few cases where
you had a section with 2 MCpls, one acting as squad leader, the other as
2ic because there wasn't a sergeant available and a corporal, or
whatever. But I guess this is the more rare case. Generally there may be
a disparity of skill.

Plus, I think at the Company level, if you lose your Commander, and a
Pltn Cmdr takes over, I *don't* think things likely get better. I get
the impression higher level officers have harder jobs, more info to
manage, and acquire different skills which the younger fellows who'd
succeed them tend not to have yet. So I think the chart for
Squad/Sections probably applies to Company level too.

Generally I get around this by assigning the leadership of the Lt, the
PSgt, and the Sgts or MCpls leading the squads. Then I only worry about
losing squad leaders.

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