Posted by: Brian Neumann
« on: June 11, 2011, 08:51:45 AM »Well, you could have taken a few more heavy assault battaillons instead of those replacement battaillons, thus having more points from the start. Of course, replacement are much cheaper...Not only are the replacement battalions cheaper and faster to build, but to get the most out of the combat units they really do need to be in brigade and division sized units. My standard division lift does not have that much extra capacity. Unless I go for an entire extra division of troops I can't really bring along an extra brigade easily. If I made my transports larger then I could get away with it, but this way each transport is fairly heavily armored and has multiple ciws systems (armor 10 and 4-5 ciws). This makes it hard to kill them and they are small enough that I can get them up to a decent speed using strictly civilian systems. I can keep them with the combat group and I only need to cross-load them into the assault landers when they are within a few hours of landing, thus keeping the morale loss down. Each transport has a couple of cargo handling facilities and each of the carriers loaded with fac sized assault landers also has a couple. It doesn't take long to load them and then they can get moving for the landing.
Brian