Jonathan replied to Mike: > Personally, I’d use modernfour-man US Marine fire teams as a model, at > least for the smallest unit of deployment. The question would then be > how many fire teams a typical dropship would be designed to transport.
I see the problem the other way around. Say you want to drop a company of 160 battlesuits from a cruiser. Nine 18-suit dropships, each with a squad plus attachments. If one or two dropships are hit on the way down, the losses will be grievous, but they will be concentrated. I guess the company could still fight. Drop a company of 50 battlesuits from a corvette, there would be just three of those 18-man dropships. A single loss would probably wreck the platoon and the mission. Smaller dropships for 8 or 12 suits would be better, except that the corvette will have to spare the pilots. A regiment of 1,800 battlesuits could be dropped in a hundred 18-suit dropships, but won't it be more efficient to use company-sized dropships and to deliver the forces concentrated for action? Regards, Onno _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
