Re: [SG/DS] Orbital assault was RE: Troop Quality was RE: [SG2] weapons

> While these always sound so much fun in stories and in games (and so
I don't want to see them disappear from those!) in reality how useful
would an orbital assault be and on how grand a scale would it have to
happen?

FMAS scale: the equivalent of one helicopter with a Special Forces
team slipping in for recon.
SG scale: a platoon or company, landing in advance of the main attack,
tasked with capturing or destroying some small but vital
facility--defense radar, weapon station, the sort of thing the
commandos did in WW2 (or the Germans at, for example, Eben Emal (sp?).
DS+ scale: a battalion or  brigade landing to slug it out over some
large objective which has to be captured--maybe a regional capital or
starport

Is it plausible?  Well, it depends on the assumptions you make, but if
you decide that starships can't just park in orbit and pound anything
on the ground, then sure, it's as plausible as the Marines landing on
Japanese-held islands.