On 17/01/2014 06:46, Onno Meyer wrote:
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?
For dropships, I'd go with squad sized ones for a platoon or company
sized contingent, and then scaling up from there, so a ship carrying a
battalion would have platoon sized dropships (also big enough to carry
heavy vehicles), though it'd probably have a few smaller ones as well. A
large transport that can carry a regiment/brigade might carry dropships
capable of dropping a company at a time, though probably it'd not have
enough for the entire contingent, having smaller ones for a portion of
it for flexibility (of course such ships might be considered large
enough to not be risked until there's full orbital and air superiority,
and thus not use combat landers).
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