British Commando Units

[Cross]

After thinking about - and discussing - the concerns and possibilities, I believe the main problem springs from the early SP designers attempt to model the company level Commando Troop as a large platoon and the battalion level 'Commando' as a large company.

If we did away with the battlion level Commando formation, no one would miss it. You could still build a Battalion sized Commando formation by purchasing 5 Troops (companies).

Then we could model an Assault Section (platoon) as three sections; and a company level Troop as seven sections:

Assault Section (27 or 30 men):

1x Platoon HQ (9/10 men)
1x Section (9/10 men)
1x Hvy Weapons/Support/Engineer (9/10 men)

Commando Troop (63 or 70 men):

1x Coy HQ (9/10 men)

2x Assault Sections (54 or 60 men)

The above suggestion would bring the Commando units in line with other SP formations. And it would be cool to have usable Commando formations. They are one of the best known units in one of the most used OOB, but the current formations are hardly even good for Scenarios, and no one uses them in PBEM, well not twice anyway ;-)

I guess this is mostly a repeat of my post two posts ago, but I just wanted to clarify my thoughts a little.

Those that also want smaller (4 men) sections can purchase and attach scouts, or use the RM Commando Troops.

Alright, I'll shut up now

cheers,
Cross