[ASLML] Support Weapon Teams

[Tate Rogers]

On Sunday, January 04, 2004 12:17 AM, Jim McLeod 
[SMTP:jmmcleod at mb.sympatico.ca] wrote:
> Listerz;
>
> Did a little lurking on the ASL Forums and I noticed that there was a
> nice discussion about SWT's.  As well, Steve Swann, and please correct
> me if I'm mistaken, mentioned that he may be doing a Platoon Leader
> project for MMP at some time in the future.  That would be very cool.  I
> always believed that the PL concept would be a winner if handled by the
> right people.

The SWT concept is interesting. However, I have yet to see it handled well 
in any rules/SSR. I don't count the Nip MG crews because those rules 
reflect a highly specific doctrinal and cultural situation. Doctrinal 
because the Japanese military limited SW MG training to elite 
teams...Cultural because the average Nip soldier did not tend to be 
comfortable when forced to improvise.

The problem as I see it is that the SWT rules would have to be different 
for each nationality. For example, I see the Germans as similar to the Japs 
due to a rigid military discipline. The other extreme would be US military 
where improvisation was encouraged and every other Joe fancied himself a 
shade-tree mechanic for any kind of equipment. Sure, this 
stereotyping...but then that is what all the nationality distinctions 
are...including the Nip MG crew rules.

PL leader is an excellent concept. It suffered from extremely poor 
execution on the part of CH. Not to mention the initial series of crappy, 
halfa*sed playtested CG that PL was associated with. I would be shocked if 
MMP would have anything to do with PL and it's poor reputation. Besides, 
MMP already has their standard CG outline.

Later-

Tater (One Mean Spud!)