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post Mar 6 2004, 01:27 PM
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I tried to use the Karma cost of raising a skill to those levels as a guide to how high the skills should be. One skill/spec at 2/4 costs 7 Karma, less than one base skill at 3 (8 Karma). One base skill at 4 costs double that of a spec of 4 (14 vs 7).

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The only way to get your mortars to react within six seconds is to have priority fires, have the target preplotted, and to be talking to the mortar platoon directly, with them holding the rounds in thier hands. And then tere's the flight time...

Unless they've dug in and have seen you comming, it's going to take at least 2-4 minutes to get any fire support, much more if you weren't 'expecting' anything.

There were a few important assumptions on my part. First of all, I assumed that even light mortars of the 2060s would be linked to rudimentary fire control computers. This might not always be the case, but considering the extremely high benefit/cost of such a system (maybe less than 500Y with 2060s tech), there would be some such systems.

The other was that the mortars are deployed and ready to fire. If the crew is in a tent a hundred meters away, it won't take very long to get the alarm there, throw LBV on, run to the mortar, pick up the coordinates on the FCC and start firing.

If the mortars aren't deployed -- troops moving or resting -- it would certainly take a minute or several to start firing. If there are no fire control computers, it would take an additional 10 - 20CTs to figure out where to shoot, depending heavily on conditions (how sure they are of the enemy positions) and experience (speed of communication).
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post Mar 6 2004, 01:31 PM
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While we're deviating from developing nation standards, skill levels can be affected by motivation and unit emphasis.

Marines spend _a lot_ of time on the range and learn the inner workings of their weapons like a date book. US Army infantry, on the other hand, don't drill to that level of expertise.

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post Mar 6 2004, 08:37 PM
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How about this for estimates of their generic stats (see spoiler below)

(First time I've tried using spoiler, so I apologize for extra-long post if it doesn't work)

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post Mar 6 2004, 11:53 PM
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Yes, I think Apathy has got it fairly correct. But I think the fresh Lt has at least as good Assault Rifles as the Private, but as the Private goes corporal the corporal may have higher Assault Rifle than his officer.
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post Mar 7 2004, 12:13 AM
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On the other hand, to go back on the original subject, a third world country might not have any military academy like Western countries use to. I don't know the subject enough but I think it's fairly imaginable that they would instead pick their officer from the NCO ranks. Thus all officers would be as much or more experienced in combat than the men under their orders. Well, unless he has an influential father if corruption is common in that country.
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post Mar 7 2004, 03:44 AM
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Wow... thanks guys, this is exactly what I wanted!

thatnks a whole lot!!

(AE, I like the stats for that, that gives me a good comparison)

-Mike R

This army spends there money on retention and training, rather than on equipment, there budget is not big, but they emphasize training first.

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