From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 01:06:21 -0800
Subject: [DSII] Light Infantry
Light Infantry--this is the one real spot missing in my NRE OBs. There isn't room to add any in the Tagmatic forces (Other than the Varangians I've already got), but the Thematic units offer some potential for various types of light infantry. Now, these carry all sorts of additional designations in the Real World, principally Airborne, Air Assault, Mountain, and a host of traditional ones (Jaeger, Rifles, Fusiliers, whatever) which have no real meaning. However, going over various OBs, I'm a bit unsure on the difference between Mountain, Abn, AA, and just plain vanilla light infantry. *Dodges brickbats from the airborne types* Yes, I know they have slightly different training in how they get to work, and the Air Assault TOs have to include enough helicoptors to flit from here to there. This doesn't, however, seem to have much effect on the way they are organized, nor does it have any effect at all on a Dirtside or Stargrunt table (unless you airdrop them in, in which case it can be interesting). So what I've been considering was to put together a generic Light Infantry TO&E with the caveat that they might have additional designations if one of the three listed above. Side note--I've worked out a tenative TO&E for a brigade based on US practice (plus support assets at brigade level which don't exist in US, but which get attached if a brigade goes off on an independant mission), and noticed that it calls for over 200 hummer-analogs. Not that light, is it?