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Persistent Companies #586

Open walterroach opened 3 years ago

walterroach commented 3 years ago

[ ] Organize ground forces into Company / Platoon / Squad structure
[ ] Reorganize the economy for ground units to allow unit replacement up to some limit of the above org structures, adding a new Company would require a larger investment or perhaps a logistics mission?
[ ] Spawn and task the DCS Mission Groups as squads (groups of mixed units) rather than all tanks in one group, all IFVs in another etc..
[ ] Allow for anti-air equipped squads.

Resource provided from Discord: https://www.battleorder.org/us-army-tanks-modern

Mustang-25 commented 3 years ago

@walterroach I have a bunch of books and FMs regarding modern Russian (also a generic OPFOR) and late cold war soviet tactics and organization. Let me know if I can be of assistance with this, I'm happy to provide some reference material to help you build this out!

rabauke80 commented 3 years ago

Precursor - I'm not a military expert, so please apologize if there are some mistakes or misunderstandings on naming and/or structure. This should simply help guiding the design.

I tried to create a UI mockup in MS Paint :-) based on a modern US Army Armor Company

As a first iteration, I'd suggest to only create the platoon level - this should give enough freedom to create mixed platoons/companies based on the faction/timeline setup at a later stage.

ground_forces_mockup_03 ground_forces_mockup_02

The idea is to either use the NATO symbology also used in DCS or have a symbol picture similar to the aircraft management UI - could be an option (e.g. "Use NATO symbology")

Once that is done, an additional tab could be created for "Companies", where the player can select and arrange companies, based on the currently available platoons.

rabauke80 commented 3 years ago

credits to Bearfoot for providing the link for Russian mechanized infantry organization

https://youtu.be/felcqDnfrGA

rabauke80 commented 3 years ago

What would be also fun, are SFO Scouts with EPLRS, that could move towards the enemy hold and just target them, like dynamic JTAC units. Not sure which aircraft besides the A-10C II can pick up this data, but for the Warthog it would be great for picking up TOOs.

Mustang-25 commented 3 years ago

I also have a bunch of FMs and docs with USSR and modern Russian ORBATs if this is the direction we want to go in.