Right, so it's about time we cleared up the army divisions, for those sorry people whjo have no idea what a platoon or battery is.
Let's start it off simple. We have a soldier. Cool. Big deal. Wait, this is boring..... let's take two instead. Aah, yes. Two soldiers. They can watch each other's backs and cover for each other. A nice pair, no? No? OK. Fine, let's take a few more pairs then. Maybe four or five? Yes. 8-10 soldiers. A Squad. Now that's definately cool. You can have two of them man some heavy machine gun and another two man the anti-tank weapons. One idiot on the radio/telephone and one medic, to patch up the most clumsy and unlucky Probably also need a leader, an assistant and a grunt or two to fire off and/or soak up bullets. Damn, these guys can do quite a bit. Why do we even need pairs anyway? Oh, well. We'll see.
But..... 10 men.... don't you think that's still very small? Not impressive at all... Fine, let's take a few more squads. Three or four squads should do. A platoon (I once madethe mistake of calling it a team), 30-40 soldiers. Well, now. That's just big. Very little they can't handle. You'd need something massive to take them out. Hmmm... But, bigger is better right? So.... What about three or four platoons? Aah. A Company (or Battery, if you're in the Artillery). A nice 120-160 men. That's a lot of mouths to feed, and that's no joke. :P
What, a battery still not big enough? You want to upscale some more? How about a battalion? No? A Brigade? No? Well, sorry. That's just too large for my little brain to comprehend. :P
Let's start it off simple. We have a soldier. Cool. Big deal. Wait, this is boring..... let's take two instead. Aah, yes. Two soldiers. They can watch each other's backs and cover for each other. A nice pair, no? No? OK. Fine, let's take a few more pairs then. Maybe four or five? Yes. 8-10 soldiers. A Squad. Now that's definately cool. You can have two of them man some heavy machine gun and another two man the anti-tank weapons. One idiot on the radio/telephone and one medic, to patch up the most clumsy and unlucky Probably also need a leader, an assistant and a grunt or two to fire off and/or soak up bullets. Damn, these guys can do quite a bit. Why do we even need pairs anyway? Oh, well. We'll see.
But..... 10 men.... don't you think that's still very small? Not impressive at all... Fine, let's take a few more squads. Three or four squads should do. A platoon (I once madethe mistake of calling it a team), 30-40 soldiers. Well, now. That's just big. Very little they can't handle. You'd need something massive to take them out. Hmmm... But, bigger is better right? So.... What about three or four platoons? Aah. A Company (or Battery, if you're in the Artillery). A nice 120-160 men. That's a lot of mouths to feed, and that's no joke. :P
What, a battery still not big enough? You want to upscale some more? How about a battalion? No? A Brigade? No? Well, sorry. That's just too large for my little brain to comprehend. :P
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