What is a good generic term for an individual vehicle or squad, other than
element? Or, in other words, in the following sentence, what word would you
substitute for X?
"One Unit consists of one or more seperate X."
...where X is a tank, helicopter, infantry platoon, secret weapon, or
something similar. I am currently working on the military rules for Destroy
All Monsters!, and I need a nice, simple term. "Elements" just
seems a little...unfriendly, if that makes any sense. Any ideas? I'm not
normally this brain dead, but the holidays have taken a lot out of
me. Please reply directly to me--there's no need to clutter up the list
with my foolishness.
Thanks,
<<"One Unit consists of one or more seperate X." <<
I'm not sure of the unit scale in the game you mention, but a good generic
military sounding term is "maneuver element"
Currently Corps are made up of divisions, divisions of Brigades, Brigades of
Battalions, Battalions of Companies, Companies of Platoons, Platoons of
Squads, Squads of Fire Teams, and Fire Teams of soldiers.
A vehicle Platoon is made up of individual vehicles.
> <<"One Unit consists of one or more seperate X." <<
How about X = element
Just my 2 cents
Michael
oops babies sure make u foregetful
> <<"One Unit consists of one or more seperate X." <<
Ment to say X = entity
doh!
just my 2 cents worth
Michael
They wouldn't call them "tracks" if they were wheeled, hover, or grav
vehicles, now would they?
Howsabout... Treaded = Tracks Wheeled = Tubes Hover = Winds Grav = Hums
Surface Craft = Tubs SubSurface Craft = Sinks Fixed Wing Aircraft = Flyers
Rotary Wing Aircraft = Flutters AeroSpace = Flitters
?
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Tubes? guns are tubes.
How about: Wheeled = Flats Hover = Farts Grav = Bloats Surface Craft = Bobs
Subs = Coffins Fixed Wings = Screamers VTOL's = Fans
Just to explain the kind of thing that I am going for here...Destroy All
Monsters! is a game of my own design (with elements liberally borrowed from
many sources) that deals with combat between giant Monsters, aided
by low-budget special effects. The rules are on my website, at
http://www.voicenet.com/johncrim/Monsters.html
if anyone is interested. I am working on rules right now for the Army: those
poor, hapless fools who are doomed to be crushed in droves beneath
the feet of uncaring Monsters. I am trying to create a reasonably accurate
simulation of the kind of battles you see in Godzilla movies, while still
giving the Military player a fighting chance. The resulting
rules won't be suitable for playing realistic modern Armor battles (see DSII
for that), but should do the job for me.
The available forces will be limited to tanks, missile tanks, helicopters, a
Secret Weapon (Oxygen Destroyers and the like), and infantry squads. If there
is any kind of demand, I'll add a few other things, like APCs and heroes, but
I want to playtest the basic rules first.
All I really want is a generic term for an individual vehicle or
squad--I'd just use "vehicle" if it weren't for those pesky squads of
infantry--that I can use to designate them in the rules. I'm using Unit
to designate a group of tanks (or whatever) that all move at the same time.
"Good Guy" is not a bad idea, and I now have something to fall back upon, but
I would like something a little more formal.
By the way: Thank you all for the responses. I assumed that everyone was off
on vacation, since the list has been so slow for the past week.
Apparently, I was wrong....
We've all had fun offering suggestions. However, if you're l;ooking for a good
generic term, I would suggest "platform". It stretches to fit about anything,
and won't confuse the reader.
> ScottSaylo@aol.com wrote:
> A vehicle Platoon is made up of individual vehicles.
Which are also just called "tracks". (i.e. there's four tracks in a Triton IV
platoon)
I don't know, maybe they would. The Triton IV in my example is a tracked
vehicle. BTW there are still plenty of tracked vehicles in the future. Heck
they still call vehicles mounts (a very common term today) too after the old
cavalry terms for horses. Last time I looked around the 1st Cav isn't fighting
wars with horses now are they?
John C
...snip...JTL
> All I really want is a generic term for an individual vehicle or
I think Combat Elements
or
Component Units
John: There are several word that come to mind at this moment. 1) Weapons
Platform(s) 2) Operations Unit(s) 3) Fighting Asset(s) 4) Firepower Delivery
System(s) 5) MDU(s) [Monster Destroying Unit(s)] 6) MEU(s) [Monster
Extermination Unit(s)] 7) EBB(s) [Enemy Ball Buster(s)] 8) Operations
Formation(s) 9) Good Guys
Hope this helps John
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just
> seems a little...unfriendly, if that makes any sense. Any ideas? I'm
> not normally this brain dead, but the holidays have taken a lot out of
> me. Please reply directly to me--there's no need to clutter up the
> John C wrote:
> What is a good generic term for an individual vehicle or squad, other
just
> seems a little...unfriendly, if that makes any sense. Any ideas? I'm
Sorry guy, but that was what we called them: elements or teams. A lot of
people (including the military wise guys) say that the smallest unit in use
is the squad. It isn't... it's the fire-team. Squads split into fire
teams (in the US, there are usually two teams).
Dismount infantry teams split into two fire teams Mech Infantry split into
three teams: two dismount fire teams and a vehicle
team/crew
Tanks and other IFVs are called crews, although vehicle team wasn't unheard