Yeah, that's what I thought. So in the history of the Remorhaz marines they have only had one entire platoon of soldiers that were wiped out. This is understndable considering the lack of organized defense you are facing. The US army probably hasn't lost an entire platoon in combat since Vietnam, and I am not sure it happened all that often over there even. What does happen though in almost every engagement, even when one side vastly outnumbers the other, is that a couple guys in a platoon will get killed or wounded (They don't even have to get killed really) and have to be replaced with green troops. And Lieutenants and seargants get killed occasionally.
Something else to consider is every time you build a new Blazer, that's a totally new platoon. You might fill it with raw recruits for Privates, but you would want to get officers and Seargants that have some experience. So what you would do is promote some Privates from another platoon that has seen some action. So there you woudn't even need casulties, just some additional units and you have room for promotion.
So you can jazz up the invasions a bit. They don't have to have actual casualties in your game. Just write in some decent firefights where the good guys lose some boys, and some boys get wounded, but the units aren't totally wiped out. But just because you took over the planet and didn't lose any blazers doesn't neccesarily mean the natives threw down rose petals for your guys when they landed.
Geoschmo
[ September 26, 2002, 17:49: Message edited by: geoschmo ]