From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 21:56:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Now that I've gotten things fixed. . .
I've posted the organizations for pretty much every type of platoon I'm likely to want to put on the Stargrunt battlefield. http://www.angelfire.com/va/basileus/stargrunt.html Comments encouraged. I've also gone through and cleaned up some of the other pages and fixed minor, annoying errors.
From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 08:30:06 -0400
Subject: Re: Now that I've gotten things fixed. . .
> I've posted the organizations for pretty much every You may be used to all the abbreviations, but it's a little difficult to read long strings of capitals. You may want to put "usual QD/Leadership" for each unit. I don't imagine you want spatherokadidatoi to be G3's, for example. "All" Varangians are elites? Mostly veterans with a dash of elites here and there, I'd have thought. And any non-Varangian unit would treat them as *at least* one extra command level away, for purposes of transferring orders. Perhaps put FP/Impact by the weapons. And might sum each squad's FP, eg 11 men, FP2x9/d8, d12/d8*, d10/d10, + 4 IAVR
From: Laserlight <laserlight@q...>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 23:15:59 -0400
Subject: Re: Now that I've gotten things fixed. . .
> > You may be used to all the abbreviations, but it's a I didn't say they're hard to figure out. They're hard to read. Like having red text on a black background. > Varangians don't take orders from Greeks well. On the If they're around. I can see "misunderstandings" arising--"that's *your* position? Sorry, kyrios, thought that's where you wanted the artillery pattern."
From: John Atkinson <johnmatkinson@y...>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 18:04:33 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Now that I've gotten things fixed. . .
> --- Laserlight <laserlight@quixnet.net> wrote: > > Varangians don't take orders from Greeks well. On Ah... artillery calls for fire in the NRE Army are transmitted digitally, not by voice unless there are special circumstances. The power armor lases the target, the operator selects from a menu of preprogrammed requests based on the target type, and it's burst-transmitted to an AI Fire Direction Center, which processes it, assigns a priority, and sends the data to an artillery battery which actually fires the mission. Furthermore, getting froggy with Varangians is a questionable career move. They do report straight to the Emperor. Besides which, most Greeks aren't stupid--they like having halfbreed Germanic/Slavic semi-barbarians around to do crazy frontal assaults and rear guard actions that burn up troops.