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According to some publications, IS military units are limited to rigid set formations. These formations consist of:
. The Lance (for Mech units or Platoon for Conventional) which consists of 4 Mechs/Vehicles, 28 Infantry Troopers or 21 Jump Infantry Troopers,
. The Company, which consists of 3 Lances or Platoons (12 Mechs/Vehicles, 84 Infantry or 63 Jump Infantry Troopers),
. The Battalion which consists of 3 Companies (36 Mechs/Vehicles, 252 Infantry or 189 Jump Infantry Troopers), and
. The Regiment which consists of 3 Battalions (108 Mechs/Vehicles, 756 Infantry or 567 Jump Infantry Troopers).
While these may be the “Standard” units of the S.L./I.S., it would not be possible to have these set in stone. The numbers themselves are also in error, failing to include command elements or artillery. For a unit to include it’s command personnel in one of its field (or “Maneuver”) units, the command personnel become tied to that unit and lack the freedom to devote proper attention to the rest of the units or the unit overall. For this reason, units generally have a dedicated command element. At Company level or Smaller (Platoon level for Infantry), they are the same size as the Maneuver units. For larger units it is generally a dedicated Lance or Company. In each case it usually includes the CO, the XO, the command communications officer and the units security or intelligence officer (sometimes multiple “hats” are worn by a single office, particularly in Merc units).
Additionally, these “set” units don’t often coincide with the actual numbers of Mechs/Vehicles/Troopers available in a given unit. These numbers can vary greatly due to a unit’s ranking/prestige, combat losses, availability/lack of replacement equipment/personnel etc…
There are also other sub-categories, mentioned briefly in some publications but never explained. These sub categories can be applied to any unit of Lance/Platoon size or larger (Company or Larger for Infantry units). A “Short” unit is a unit with 1 less of its standard number of Maneuver units while a “Reinforced” unit has 1 more. So, where a “Standard” Lance has 4 Mechs (1 Command and 3 Maneuver) a “Short” Lance has only 3 Mechs (1 Command and 2 Maneuver) and a “Reinforced” Lance has 5 Mechs (1 Command and 4 Maneuver). This creates a lot of overlap and flexibility in unit roster formations. A Company for example can have as little as 6 Mechs/Vehicles or as many as 20 where a Battalion can have as few as 15. This means that 2 different units could have the same exact vehicle composition. A “Reinforced Company” could have 18 mechs and face a “Short Battalion” with the same 18 mechs organized differently. Why would you do this? The Battalion has more subdivision and flexibility on the field (more maneuver units – as many as 6 short lances here instead of only 4 Lances/Reinforced Lances). The Company requires fewer officers of lower rank (less pay – No Battalion Commander {Major}, only 1 Company Commander {Captain – instead of 2} and 3 Lance commanders {Lieutenants – each}. For a House unit, the savings in pay is often an attraction to higher command levels, especially if the commander is from the Pay/Disbursement department (as is often the case during times of peace). For a Merc unit, the larger unit classification can draw higher wages from the contract and also allows the commander to claim higher rank/pay within the unit. This, however, does come with the risk of a House officer sending the unit accidentally (or not) against a much larger unit in the field. Such as, sending a newly arrived Merc “Battalion” to engage an enemy “Battalion” and not realizing the Merc Sort “Battalion” only has 20 mechs where the enemy reinforced “Battalion” has 80 mechs.
(I have a chart but don't know how to insert it here in Exl or PDF - if someone can help with that?)
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| Posted: 27-Apr-2020 08:51 Post subject: Re: IS TO&E |
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| MAD-4A wrote: | | (I have a chart but don't know how to insert it here in Exl or PDF - if someone can help with that?) |
When you're making a post, at the bottom but above the Preview/Submit buttons, you'll see an Add Attachment button. That will let you upload attachments. I forget what kind are allowed, to be honest, but think PDF might be one of them.
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| Posted: 28-Apr-2020 02:33 Post subject: Re: IS TO&E |
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I don't see any attatchment button all that was above the preview/submit buttons were:
Disable HTML in this post
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Attach signature (signatures can be changed in profile)
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and on the original Poll buttons
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| Posted: 29-Apr-2020 03:57 Post subject: Re: IS TO&E |
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Nope its not there, just:
[] Notify me when a reply is posted
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[Preview][Submit]
one line between these, I'm missing something
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| Posted: 29-Apr-2020 06:25 Post subject: IS TO&E |
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This is usually the point where you'd mention what browser you're using...
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| Posted: 29-Apr-2020 13:02 Post subject: IS TO&E |
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Explorer, always, After Google got so needy and begging me constantly to use theirs. I will never use Chrome. except at work if the job is set to it and the company insists that I have to use it.
Nope - logged into FFox same result single line above Preview/Submit
(also while were here, why is my affiliation missing? originally Lyran Commonwealth then FedCom - I reject the FC civil war the books ended when Victor said "I don't want to play no more"  - that's no Steiner, or Davion - and will never associate with the murdering traitors brand - you have no Commonwealths)
Is it too late to rename this thread and move it to a help/support board for not having attachments so I can repost the original intent later?
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| Posted: 29-Apr-2020 14:07 Post subject: Re: IS TO&E |
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| MAD-4A wrote: | | Explorer, always, After Google got so needy and begging me constantly to use theirs. I will never use Chrome. except at work if the job is set to it and the company insists that I have to use it. |
I've stopped supporting Explorer. It's used by a very small fraction of internet users, and they have discontinued support for newer standards. So anything you report as a result of IE, I can't help you with.
| MAD-4A wrote: | | Nope - logged into FFox same result single line above Preview/Submit |
Do you have a screenshot you can put somewhere (file sharing site, whatever) and share so we can see what you see?
| MAD-4A wrote: | | (also while were here, why is my affiliation missing? originally Lyran Commonwealth then FedCom - I reject the FC civil war the books ended when Victor said "I don't want to play no more" - that's no Steiner, or Davion - and will never associate with the murdering traitors brand - you have no Commonwealths) |
Lyran Commonwealth nor Federated Commonwealth were ever affiliations you could have selected. So technically is not "missing". And I won't be adding any new ones at this point because it really isn't worth the effort. 
| MAD-4A wrote: | | Is it too late to rename this thread and move it to a help/support board for not having attachments so I can repost the original intent later? |
More effort than it's worth.
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| Posted: 29-Apr-2020 20:56 Post subject: IS TO&E |
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I just tried with Firefox (and this post is made using that browser), and the attach box as circled in the picture above is there.
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| Posted: 29-Apr-2020 20:57 Post subject: IS TO&E |
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I just tried with Microsoft Edge (the non-chromium updated version, and this post is made using that browser), and the attach box as circled in the picture above is there.
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| Posted: 29-Apr-2020 20:59 Post subject: IS TO&E |
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I just tried with Internet Explorer 11 (and this post is made using that browser), and the attach box as circled in the picture above is there.
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| Posted: 30-Apr-2020 01:39 Post subject: Re: IS TO&E |
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| Mordel wrote: |
| MAD-4A wrote: | | Nope - logged into FFox same result single line above Preview/Submit |
Do you have a screenshot you can put somewhere (file sharing site, whatever) and share so we can see what you see? |
no I don't and can't post one. may be I can think of something
| Mordel wrote: | | Lyran Commonwealth nor Federated Commonwealth were ever affiliations you could have selected. So technically is not "missing". And I won't be adding any new ones at this point because it really isn't worth the effort. | ... ever there ??? did you mean never or that they were there - because I looked and just checked back and they're not? They should be because they're major affiliations.
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| Posted: 30-Apr-2020 01:51 Post subject: Re: IS TO&E |
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just like his but without the whole "Attachment Posting Control Panel" square.
My Preview/Submit buttons are directly below the line directly below the words "Notify me when a reply is posted"
I don't have any of that section between the grey title box to the box with the "Add an Attachment" button in it.
If you photo-shopped his: deleted that whole box and moved the rest up to have the Preview button right below the line around the main edit section then that's what mine looks like.
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| Posted: 30-Apr-2020 07:32 Post subject: Re: IS TO&E |
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| MAD-4A wrote: |
no I don't and can't post one. |
Of course you can.
When you get to the screen press the "alt" and "Print screen" buttons at the same time. Then open MS Paint (or any of the subsequent Paint programs), press "ctrl+v", then save the image as a .jpg.
Then go here: https://imgbb.com/
Once you've done that, you can post the picture here using the options from the imgbb site.
Please don't waste anyone's time with a reply other than posting that screen shot.
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| Posted: 30-Apr-2020 22:17 Post subject: Re: IS TO&E |
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| chihawk wrote: |
Please don't waste anyone's time with a reply other than posting that screen shot. |
well if helping a new user is 'wasting your time' then I wont waste mine.
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