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Originally Posted by PanzerBob
In my units, while it's nice to protect the Commanders of various sized units everybody fights. And yes in my Campaigns I take causalities, combat units do this it is the nature of the beast. I for the most part always try to ensure that my units are Company formation even if it means deleting a platoon. This ensures I have Coy CO’s as well as Plt CO’s or NCO’s. Combat Leaders need to be with their Units, IMHO. 
Bob out |
I quite agree, but sometimes I think lone units are better off with what I imagine, or heard, that A0 has a longer command reach than company CO's. My lone units (or semi-alone) are at times so far from other help, therefore making for some interesting battles at times, that it may be important they remain under A0, but no command, no matter what they're assigned to could possibly rally them, at least not in their intitial deployment.
Most anything I bought as seperate platoons, in core, gets assigned a CO from a company.
I was not talking about completely removing a platoon CO from any danger. I was emphasizing protecting. Now it may take some time to acquire this, but I have a feel for when they're in danger and when they are not, so they behave accordingly. I always make them less appealing to the AI by making sure they're behind their subordinates 2-3 hexes, and don't fire as much as the others. If they don't get a kill whiloe the primary fighting is going on it doesn't concern me too much, as in most battles they will do some cleaning up with the routed enemy infantry.
So you see how while I am using them, their more crucial fighting during the height of the battle is more limited, such that I don't depend on their firepower very much. So you can see how having more subordinates to such a view of things leads to a higher firepower ratio. I just think the CO surviving is a very important thing. It does depend somewhat on what nation you play though and what they can expect. I see absolutely no reason to endanger them in the Polish battles, for they are being saved, and I may even save them there, for France and/or the USSR.
Some tricks of the trade, so to speak, with leaders. Never fire first at a new target. When firing, if there is return fire, discontinue temporarily and fire with another unit. I do those things not just with leaders, but primarily them. I often take my chances and keep firing with the same subordinate until he is out of shots, even if the entire time he keeps drawing fire from the same unit. Of course a lot of times the unit countering him is the unit he is firing upon.