I submitted this question to Mr.Tuffley, and his response is included below.
He suggested I submit this question to the list, and so here it is. What are
your thoughts?
> Question:
> the "combat drill" of the US army - when the squad comes under fire,
My initial reaction is that the SL could probably give the orders to part of
the squad to form the detachment, but the detached subunit would still have to
shake off its suppression before it could actually do anything; however this
is one of those interesting questions that raises all sorts of
other issues - maybe you should put this one to the mailing list and
see what everyone else thinks about it?
Jon (GZG)
> Thanks for your time.
Interesting.
If the attachment still has to make the leadership check, then the action is
somewhat wasted, because the leader could have made the check for the entire
unit, not just the attachment.
If the leader makes the leadership check (to remove suppression) for the
entire unit, why spend the extra action to make a detachment?
I guess that you could use a house rule to have the leader make the test to
remove suppression for a detachment at some bonus (shift up?). It would still
use both actions of the leader, so the main unit would be unable to do
anything (still under suppression).
It may be below the grandularity of SG. It is possible that this is what is
being done when a leader tests to remove suppression and the detachment
automatically rejoins the unit when the suppression is lifted.
That leads to another question: If the unit A that is doing the suppression
of unit B is killed/suppressed or otherwise no longer activly
suppressing, does unit B automatically remove suppression? If not, then
detaching a part of a unit to suppression the suppressors would have no
effect.
The idea (detachment under suppression) is still a good idea, it just needs to
be balanced. Automatic suppression lift for a detachment seems like too much
to me (everyone would do it and the value of suppression would be lessened
since you could never suppress an entire unit).
I would suggest, also, that units under 2 suppression markers could not do
this.
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