Re: [SG/DS] Unit Size Definitions

At 10:48 AM -0400 7/9/02, laserlight@quixnet.net wrote:
>
>It's an intelligence ploy.  You can picture opposing intel officers
>swearing under their breath: "17/21 Lancers-what does that mean?  14th
>Queen's Own Light Grenadier Guards Rifle Regiment?  What the heck is
that?
>On this photo, this unit is supposedly a regiment, that one is listed
as a
>battalion but it's three times the size...did someone switch labels
again?
>The computer translation lists Highlanders as mountain troops, is that
>right?"

Here's a thought. Can one see in the GZG verse the use of Yomanry 
coming back into real flavor for units that are drawn from a specific 
planet? Perhaps even to the extent that they provide their own 
weapons and transport? I'd expect that the Tribal nature of the NAC 
military forces would actually be magnified by having regional and 
planet based colonies spread around from place to place. Especially 
if on a given colony planet you have two major population centers on 
separate continents to use as a source for manpower.
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