Re: [Epic] Space Marine Chapters

From: PAULO ALEXANDRE CORREIA POMBAL(leic) <"PAULO>
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 18:44:41 +0100 (WET DST)

On Wed, 20 May 1998, Joseph Michael Looney wrote:

> How about:
> Fire team 5 men / 1 tank (1 stand duh)
> Platoon 5 fire teams (25)
> Company 5 platoons (125)
> Battalion 5 companines (625)
> Regiment 5 battalions (3,125)
> Manipule 5 Regiments (15,625)
> Corp 5 Manipules (78,125)
> Cohort 5 Corps (390,625)
> Chapter 5 Cohorts (1,953,125)
>
> This gives you more or less the same effect AND doesn't violate the "law
> of 5" for military command, which states, more or less, that a single
> commander should never give commands to more than 5 persons. As an
> expansion of this idea, you give commands one level down, but are aware
> of the actions and locations 2 levels down. Example. Company commander
> gives orders to platoon leaders, but is aware of his squad/fire team's
> locations and actions. He does not need to know where Pvt. Smith is,
> just where Smith's fire team is at.
>
> For what it is worth, the Chapter given here would have about the same
> number of men as the whole of the US Army during the bad days of the
> Cold War, and is about twice the current total.
>

Looks fine. I've never been in the army and don't know much about unit
organization, so that's why I choose an orgazination on multiples of 10
(like the Mongol tumans).
But it sure looks good
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