On Tue, 09 January 2001, "Bell, Brian K (Contractor)" wrote:

> On Tue, 09 January 2001, "Bell, Brian K (Contractor)" wrote:

> Hmmm. I think that I know what you mean when dealing with detached

Actually, pretty good. I've seen worse!

> I think what you are indicating is that the squad leader of any unit

Well, funny enough, this is sort of what's happening. If you read on page 16,
you'll see that as envisioned the leaders do EVERYTHING in the game. There are
two kinds of actions, motivation actions (leader gets someone else to do
something) and leader actions (leader does something).

Most squad actions are motivation actions. The squad leader motivates the rest
of the squad to move and stuff. He just happens to go along for the ride.

Usually, though, the transfer action is considered a leader action. The leader
is giving orders to another squad.

So, if as a house rule, you allow squad leaders to treat the Transfer Action
as a motivation action, he could motivate a detachment (giving it two actions)
and then motivate the main squad part (giving it two actions).

This isn't a rule interpretation, though. This is just a house rule I thought
of to match your house rules for fireteams.

> But would this not disallow the squad leader from

As a house rule, I was allowing the main part of the unit to still receive its
two actons.

> I was reading it as the Squad Leader remains part of the Main unit and

That's the proper rulebook definition, yes. My suggestion, buried somewhere in
there anyway, was to sort of make squad leaders able to transfer actions to
the main group but as a motivation action (thus they can take part in it) and
not a leader action.