Re: Re: [Stargrunt]

At 3:19 PM -0400 6/6/01, Allan Goodall wrote:
>  > From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com>
>>  Date: 2001/06/06 Wed PM 01:07:34 EDT
>>  4 man squads is a bit small. Really rough when they take a casualty
too.
>
>Actually, it's not all that rough. The morale system is too 
>forgiving for it to be too rough. Especially for veterans and squads 
>with good leaders. But, yes, it is nastier.
>
>The problem is that 2 four man squads have twice as many actions as 
>1 eight man squad. If you put a suppression marker on an 8 man 
>squad, it has one action left after clearing the marker. You put a 
>suppression marker on one half of a 4 man squad (the chance of doing 
>casualties or suppressing a unit has no bearing on its size) and you 
>still have a total of 3 actions left for those 8 guys.
>

But then lessee, an 8 man section (squad, funny here I am the Yank 
and I'm partial to the British terminology...course then I'm 
interested in calling the Staff Sgt a Colour Sgt....for traditions 
sake...) that is split into 2 4 man fire teams (one is detached) gets 
a total of three actions right?

>You can have the MGs fire at separate targets, though. If you want 
>the MGs to fire at one target, the rest of the squad can fire at 
>another target. Or, you could have half the squad and one SAW fire 
>at one target, and the other half and the other SAW fire at a second 
>target.

Makes sense.

>Of course, if you want the MGs to fire at one target each, and the 
>rest of the squad to fire at a third target, you can only do that by 
>detaching the MGs into a detached element. They would get two 
>actions (and, thus, could fire at two different targets) and the 
>remaining action could be used to fire the rest of the squad.

Hmm. Now, where to find that NAC Army Sustained fire role MG... 
Perhaps a tribarrel on a tripod and 2 ammo bearers/seconds as a 
Company Fire Support detachment...?

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