Mercenary company, by Robert Dean

By ran el-Yaniv ·

TML message #1617From bundle 131

Hello,

  You have made the company vehicle and personnel heavy. It bacame a
battalion (-).

  Let's see... I shall use generic company structure.


        Enlisted NCO Officers
Section   7-8     -     -
Squad      15     1     -       Sgt
Platoon    30     2     1       2x Sgt, 2Lt
Company    90     7     5       6x Sgt, MSgt, 4x 2Lt, Lt

  This is as far as direct increase is carried. The next level is
already a Battalion, having organic support echellons.

A Battalion would have:

  1 HQ Platoon(+) (Staff, Intelligence, Medical, Supply and Logistics -
                  officer heavy)
  1 FS Platoon (Heavy mortars, ATGWs, etc)
  1 Signals section + NCO
  1 Recon squad
  3 Companies

  Thus: 402 personnel, of them 24 officers (8 in the HQ platoon).

  Vehicle-wise, you made a classic organizational mistake. There are too
many vehicle types for a single LOW level unit. The variety may be
encountered in a brigade (more probably in a division), but not in a
battalion and certainly NOT in a company. For an infantry battalion you
would have some type of a fast, small, vehicle for all battalion assets
together with a number of medium load vehicles. The FS platoon, parts of
the HQ platoon and the companies would have some types of APC (ACV or
Grav or even tracked). The mixing of unit types comes only at the brigade
level. At battalion level, the entire unit is of a single type (infantry,
mechanized infantry, armour, etc).

  If the battalion is a mercenary battalion, than AT LEAST one training
company must be included, probably two. This would make the battalion into
a battalion(++).

                           Yours in advance,

                 yaniv, Sgt(res), Division 'The Steel'