detachment suppression

Interesting question. I do have a PoV on this, but I'll step outside of
the conventional interpretation. 

Detaching units in Stargrunt is time consuming, whereas in some sense it
is normal battle drill for many well-trained armies. I reflect this
higher level of articulation in highly trained forces by creating
multiple fireteams in a squad. 

Instead of 1 squad of 8 grunts, I create two fireteams of 4. This is
TO&E stuff. They are (in some out-of-game organizational sense) still a
Squad that barracks together and travels and fights together. But they
have enough independence of manouvre that I treat them as independent
stargrunt squads. Thus, in order to suppress the entire 8-man formation,
you need to apply two sets of suppressions, one to each squad. It allows
more manouver, and assuming a highly-trained and equipped force, usually
makes efficient use of firepower until casualties start to hit hard. 

I find with a detachment, the inability to put in place set orders to do
something repeatedly are a problem. This means my CO has to reactivate
the detachment each round and that wastes one of his actions (and hence
one from his part of the squad). It is also subject to EW. I don't think
this necessarily mirrors certain types of activities. 

I find putting in place two smaller fireteams in place of one larger
squad gives the flexibility to move and fight the squad the way I think
it should be fought. 

But then, I'm a heretic who uses his officers and platoon sergeants as
individuals so they can attach/detach at will and move between squads as
needed. 

If you want to stay within conventional rules, I think you can detach
under suppression, but that mostly just doubles your suppressions as I
don't think the detached squad suddenly becomes better off. The good
point is that to keep this now-double squad suppressed, the enemy must
deploy twice as much fire (two target elements). That would be my
interpretation - I think you can transfer commands, communicate, call
for on-board or off-board support, re-org, or detach while suppressed.
These types of activities shouldn't be barred - just moving and fighting
primarily. 

Tomb.
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