Brandon wrote: > A battlesuit platoon, the largest unit deployed that contains only > battlesuits. is organized as follows: three squads, each with seven infantry > suits > and one assault suit. The HQ section contains two command suits (platoon > commander and senior NCO), two flak suits, one recon suit and one combat > engineer suit. Total platoon strength is 30 battlesuits.
Hello Brandon, I guess people were working the battlesuit doctrine out as they went along, unless the aliens gave them field manuals, too. But a lone recon suit and a single combat engineer suit seem odd. In the historical US infantry squad, there were two scouts, so perhaps there should be two scouts per battlesuit platoon. And the engineer suits could come in squad strength in engineer companies. > Dissatisfaction with > the assault suit led to it being replaced with old flak suits in each > squad, while the HQ section recieved the newer flak suits. The extra armor wasn't useful? It could make a crucial difference when the enemy has AP rifle or MMG rounds. > A battlesuit company > has several 6x6 cargo trucks (p.W107), for support personnel and various > equipment and supplies, as well as a few Jeeps. To support each platoon of 30 suits, you need perhaps 15 to 20 cargo trucks (two suits per truck, plus some extras), a couple of workshop trucks, and perhaps a few jeeps for command and control. The Attack Vector game had battlesuit ground forces which had trucks and mechanics integrated at the platoon level, I think. > It was originally intended to > field one platoon of battlesuits per infantry battalion as "shock troops", > but the actual ratio was closer to one per regiment. So platoons are deployed independently? > All the suits, except for the recon and engineering, have a hardpoint for > a weapon pod on the left shoulder. Most suits have their hardpoints > unloaded; usually in a squad only one suit will mount an MG pod and one will > mount > triple rocket tubes. Are the pods slowing them down significantly, or why employ suits without pods? > Weaponry > 2xGround LMGs/M-1919A4 Browning [RArm:F, LArm:F] (250 each). As for the airborne suits, the ratio of weapons and ammo feels wrong. Why not one MG with 1,000 rounds? Same weight, twice the total ammo. Or are the twin weapons required for cinematic reasons? A German infantry squad would carry one GPMG and well over 1,000 rounds for it. Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
