Posted by: Steve Walmsley
« on: October 10, 2006, 12:23:58 PM »Quote from: "kdstubbs"
steve,
You mention capacity using two digit numbers, but do they represent the size of the division or its cube? Normal Division deployed to the field will need approximately 35,000 men to man its organic and attached units. The cube is the total space required to move all of its equipment, supplies, munitions, and vehicles. So different units will have different manpower and cube requirements.
So does the troop ships have space for 35,000 troops +/_ and the necessary cube to take all of the equipment?
Kevin
I would prefer not to get into that level of detail
I am assuming that the divisions for Aurora are more high tech and less manpower intensive than contemporary units. An Infantry division (which in reality is mechanized infantry), Assault Infantry or Security would be about 10,000 men. Armour or Engineers about 5000 men but with much more equipment. Division is sort of an arbitrary unit so I can use unit names that people are familiar with.
Steve