US Army Platoon Battle Buddy Organization

[Suhiir]

I use the Fire Team (4-man) formation in the USMC OOB fairly often. Works pretty well when you need to cover a wide frontage.

Keep in mind those 2-man buddy teams should be size 0, makes them pretty hard to hit. The exception being ATGM teams (size 1 due to backblast) and you might consider making the MMG teams size 1 as well.

[shahadi]

Originally Posted by Suhiir

I use the Fire Team (4-man) formation in the USMC OOB fairly often. Works pretty well when you need to cover a wide frontage.

Keep in mind those 2-man buddy teams should be size 0, makes them pretty hard to hit. The exception being ATGM teams (size 1 due to backblast) and you might consider making the MMG teams size 1 as well.

Yep, you're right the smaller buddies are size =0.

I am still researching Radio. Initially, I was thinking radio simply meant communication between the unit and its command. But, if it means something else, actual comms, then I would want to set radio = 0 for all units except the Plt Hdq, and CO Hdq.

Thanks suhiir.

[Karagin]

Originally Posted by shahadi

Yep, you're right the smaller buddies are size =0.

I am still researching Radio. Initially, I was thinking radio simply meant communication between the unit and its command. But, if it means something else, actual comms, then I would want to set radio = 0 for all units except the Plt Hdq, and CO Hdq.

Thanks suhiir.

Radio is for how the AI picks units.

[Suhiir]

Originally Posted by Karagin

Radio is for how the AI picks units.

Radio is used for two things.
The first digit is for comm, the second is unit rarity.
For example 90 is pretty much default for tanks, they almost always have a radio and are the standard unit. But say your have two types of tanks in your military, one very common, one very rare, then 92 for the 1st and 91 for the second.

The first digit is the chance to have a radio, 0 to 90% the second is used for unit rarity, 0=average, 1=rare, 2=common, 3=NEVER picked by the AI but players can purchase.

Units without a radio (the 1st digit) can still communicate with nearby units BUT can't report what they see (or hear reports by other units) to the rest of your units. Up till recently squads and teams rarely had radios so needed to stay in visual range of their parent platoon HQ to stay informed.