RE: detachment suppression

Greetings Tom!

I like the 2x 4-man fire team idea myself. It gives more flexibility. 

The downside to a 4-man team is that it eats up more actions to
reactivate a
an 8 man squad's worth of men (2 transfered activations instead of 1),
so
the company commander is less effective. They also loose confidence
quicker
(those 25% and 50% marks are a lot closer in a 4 man team than in an 8
man
squad).

Is this the way you treat them?

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Brian Bell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tomb [mailto:tomb@dreammechanics.com]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 12:45
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: detachment suppression

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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 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. 

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Tomb.