joertexas wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 5:32 am
Okay, so we have the following officers and subunits:
Frank - HQ
Prerna - Recon
Jess - Combat
Jakob - Combat
Kit - Combat
Freya - ELINT/Drones
Anyone else for a command slot?
This looks good. Are you asking if we need to promote an NPC up?
We also need to work out where Gaughan and his guys go.
I think for now we have to focus on getting us up to Platoon. We can keep an eye on being a company further down the line but is there much point focussing
too much on that as we don't know how things will pan out. We should revisit the idea after our next job.
Meta-gaming a bit here, while scouts certainly are a military service, they don't have the strong command structure that the other services do [no ranks!], where officers are trained from the beginning to manage large number of men in combat. My understanding is that scout's work independently or in small groups. The honest truth is (unless there is something in Freya's career I am unaware of, which is very possible because The Star didn't tell Frank much about her) initially Freya won't have the experience to run such squads, but she is obviously capable and intelligent and Jakob will be running the companies military school so we have possibilities for character progression in that area if that is what BT wants.
It's been mentioned before (multiple times) in this thread, most recently by joe above, but the more I think about it the more I agree we should build up our recon/strike drone/anti-drone abilities under Freya. Of course money will always be the limiting factor on how quickly we can build things up, but anti -drone/ECM seems the priority if funds are short. We have a decent comms system, battle computer and jammer, so we need some more whistles for those bells, and look at getting a point defense system for the new HQ.
BackworldTraveller wrote: ↑Sat Apr 17, 2021 7:22 am
Should we cultivate a small Collace Vehicle Maintenance Shop to maintain our vehicles? - a full time maintenance crew will be fine when we are home, but expensive fluff when in the field.
That is a good idea and falls along side Leitz's idea of a training school. These things run in parallel and allow us to make more money out of our facilities while we are away. This all builds on the existing down-port abilities of the Bartizan which already provide us with credits. Again, the limit is going to be money, the Bartizan already needs money to fix it up.
It's always about the budget size and the fact that that money is dragged in a dozen different directions. I guess we need to make a shopping list and prioritise it.
Hopefully it won't be too long before we now what our budget is.
EDIT: PS - None of this is dissing any suggestions made, it's all good stuff to go in the mix. Just suggesting we focus a bit more on the immediate and see what our budget is. That's what I do at work when I have a large, partly undefined system, focus on what we know and need immediately and then the rest tends to fall into place when needed. 
