28-04-2023, 07:12 PM
[indent] Small Unit Methods[/indent]
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Been a while since the last guide! This one is expanding upon the basic that you can see in THIS thread. This guide is focusing a little bit more on Small Unit methods! We'll go through Ambushing, Recon, Making a base and how to act as a small unit!
Now you might say "Hey Infantry-nerd, why a small unit? I want to be a big unit!" Obviously because there aren't enough military RPers around to make a big unit! Last time I saw a proper "Platoon" on SWTOR was 2017, and that was a very small platoon at best! You can of course though RP as being a squad part of a Platoon, if you now do RP Infantry Grunts and want the Guns N Glory.
Small Units are not the type of guys who will be sweeping through an entire city, attack, hold the line or do any of the classic world war movies action. You don't do that because a Small Unit will in most cases operate very near or behind enemy "lines" and you will not have reinforcements. If you get the order to attack it's going to be something very Quick such as Sniping an Officer. If your smaller unit do make contact, that firefight is your great battle. You need to win this, and winning is really just to make it out alive and not be chased. This is to take out as many enemies as you can in a matter of a minute to the point they have noone left to chase you and you have enough time to make some distance. From there on, your job is to retreat -- And Command will not give you the order to continue the mission if you've been exposed.
A small unit is a Squad. 5-10 troops will do.