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SCAJolly said:
I sent out a tiny mail on this issue in the Yahoo list some time ago, but there's the constant issue of rewriting the code... 
I doubt I'm the first one to annoy myself over suppression, in particular when the unit that is suppressed is supposed to be a half independent weapon in real life.
Let's take a SP SAM example. The SA-6 Kub. Operates in batteries of 4 or 6.
ANYONE with the slightest experience, perhaps from the NVA, will know that you cannot simply put four of these inside a 200 square metre area. The distances between these vehicles are often in kilometres, and in the case of Egypt when its umbrella started leaking, I'm sure they stretched the lines very thin.
When you put these units too far apart in SP, they start complaining. They get afraid, they're suppressed! This should not happen! It's frustrating as heck when you try to achieve a realistic umbrella. You should be able to have certain units much further away from each other than what is possible today!
Here's the crapper today: An SPSAM battery is not really a battery. Had it been a proper battery, it would not look like X0, X1, X2 etc. It would look like X0, Y0, Z0 etc. - Each unit would represent its own platoon. From there, one is even able to dedicate ordnance units to each SPSAM.
Am I missing an important issue, or "should" this be the way things had been done?
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Not really sure what your problem is here.
1) if they have radios, they can be in C&C anywhere on the map (with occasional break downs of the radio link). The 200 or so metres is for guaranteed voice comms.
2) If you thinlk nation X's SAM batteries should be a set of independanrt sections, then make one in Mobhack.
formation - "SAM Detatchment" as a section with 1 SAM
and parent "SAM Battery" as HQ (second class company or company as with recce units) holding some sections.
Unfortunately - the game does not charge for command units as do most tabletop rules, so splitting up into micro-formations comes for "free"
Andy