Leading from the Front, Atkinson-style!

John the indefatiguable said:

OK, I'm sick of the damn 2LTs (Subalterns 
for you Brits) sitting on their side of the 
board immobile, next to the EW guy and 
"leading" via FM.  

[Tomb]: Quite. Though the presence of 
snipers is also a cure. "He's on his own! 
Must be the ossifer!"

1)Use the varient PSG rules, 

[Tomb] You might mean some rules from
http://www.stargrunt.ca/rules/rules_index.
htm

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2)Simulataneous Movement/Commo 
permits LTs and PSGs to move while 
passing an activation.	Reduced move
(4"/6"/8", instead of 6/8/12), and cannot do
simultaneous movement if he has been 
fired on since his activation in the previous 
turn.  Once he is stuck in, his attention is a 
bit more distracted.  :)

[Tomb]: Little clunky given you'd have to 
track when he was fired on last turn. How 
about instead relating this to suppresion?

3)Tagalong.  An officer or PSG can 'tag 
along' with a squad.  Tagging along makes 
a leader part of the squad for movement 
purposes and exposes him to a chance of
being hit when the squad is fired on.  If a 
leader is tagging along, he can only use 1 
action and the only thing he can do with 
that action is Communicate (to
include passing activations).

[Tomb] By making my leaders individuals 
(visit the above URL), they acquire the 
ability to join and separate from a regular 
squad merely by declaring it so (see SG2 
rules on individual figures). 

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5)A unit being led by an LT or PSG of 
quality 2 or better in declared "Follow Me" 
automatically adds 1 to all Confidence 
Checks.  

[Tomb] I said use the better of their 
leadership or that of the original squad 
leader. Don't think that's enough? Are you 
more confident having two competent 
senior NCOs or a Lt. looking over your 
shoulder (as a Pvt) or with one? (Or are 
you just more nervous....)

[Tomb] You also don't cover the lowering 
of confidence that happens when the new 
green Lt. comes over and starts issuing bad 
orders to the reasonably competent 
NCO..... (This could be a MINUS). 

[Tomb] Perhaps the answer is to always 
use the leadership of the senior leader 
when multiple leaders are temporarily in a 
squad. 

6)If a unit is fired on during or immediately 
after a bonus activation passed via Follow 
Me, the leader counts as 3 soldiers for 
purposes of determining chance of being 
wounded if the fire is effective.  IE,
if an LT is leading an 8 man squad and they 
get fired at, instead of a 1 in nine chance, 
he has a 3 in 11 chance.

[Tomb] I know why you suggest this, but I 
suggest that this might not be as obvious 
in the GZG period and additionally, from a 
mechanical perspective, things in a turn are 
supposed to be (loosely) simultaneous, so 
this thing of "after" is kind of a problem to 
my mind. 

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Thomas Barclay
Co-Creator of http://www.stargrunt.ca 
Stargrunt II and Dirtside II game site

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