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Multimedia => The Prequel Trilogy => Topic started by: EUCustomMan on August 19, 2005, 04:17 PM
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I used to play the WEG RPG and it said "in the Empire era 8 Stormtroopers made up a squad" and "in the Republic days a squad was 12 troopers".
Since Lucas has actually made movies about the Republic Era now, I was wondering if anyone actually knows what the # of troopers in a Republic era squad is?
I've heard the #'s 4, 8 and 12 used. Any ideas?????
Yes, I'm an army builder.
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I'm making a custom squad of Cody's clones and was wondering what a squad is in ROTS?
I used to play the WEG RPG and it said "in the Empire era 8 Stormtroopers made up a squad" and "in the Republic days a squad was 12 troopers".
Since Lucas has actually made movies about the Republic Era now, I was wondering if anyone actually knows what the # of troopers in a Republic era squad is?
I've heard the #'s 4, 8 and 12 used. Any ideas?????
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A squad is 8-10 men composed of two fire teams with 4-5 men in each. That is what it is the US Army anyways.
The Marines are made up of 3 fireteams, with 4 men and an NCO in each. So 15 guys.
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I don't know that I'd follow any gaming book necessarilly, as they sometimes have to make adjustments for fair play and such...
Squads and teams can vary greatly by any military's need. I like to envision around 12 men in a squad generally, but I can just as easily see 10, or 8 - 9 even. There's no set standard to this though written anywhere so you could make it whatever you wanted to EUCM...
Would you want a sniper for each squad? A 2-man support gun team? Those are also things to consider when figuring how you want to break these things down as well. And of course there's other specialists and whatnot.
Lots to consider.
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A lot of the stuff Lucas, DelRey, and every other "now offical star wars source" uses was info ripped out of the West End RPG. So to discount them as a source would be kind of odd.
I just thought someone might play the new RPG or had seen in one of the countless ROTS refrence books a # somewhrere?
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Thanks! Thats pretty much the same thing that the old RPG said. I guess I'll stick to that.
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The gaming material is as official as any book. People who know me know I certainly don't discount the RPG's as source material. The issue of "squad size" though becomes something that gaming rules can fudge around and aren't necessarilly accurate or good guidelines though.
As a resource though, RPG books are generally great... I would say the WEG stuff's better than a lot of current stuff. Definitely superior to WOTC's garbage books they put out.
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I merged the Customs topic with this one too... I didn't catch it earlier.
It's a film topic so one thread in the film area should suffice.
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I don't know if this helps, but thought I'd point it out.
Assuming a squad and a squadron are actually the same thing, the X-Wing books depict a squadron of pilots and their fighters at 12. That has been something that has been widely accepted by the various EU novelists.
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The number of troopers in a squad probably varies by mission needs, how big an army/division you're talking about, etc. OTOH, 12 sounds fine to me as the "standard".
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I'm making a custom squad of Cody's clones and was wondering what a squad is in ROTS?
I'm right there with you man, I started mine recently:
(http://kevvo.250free.com/kevpics2.jpg)
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Stop hotlinking pics of your customs and get on AIM.
Kevin
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Offically a squad is 9 troopers. 8 troops and a Sargent. (acording to the insider)
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Thanks for the info! I've been trying to figure this one out for a little while now.
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Exactly. in the locations book for Episode II, it said a sergant's group is made up of 9 troopers
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I think three or higher can be in a squad.
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Oh, so pretty. On topic, I always start with platoon count of six and work off of that.
I'm making a custom squad of Cody's clones and was wondering what a squad is in ROTS?
I'm right there with you man, I started mine recently:
(http://kevvo.250free.com/kevpics2.jpg)
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I think three or higher can be in a squad.
that's according to real life.
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That's according to whatever military organizations decide...
For me, 4 men's a team but a military could call it a squad if they wanted. Squad's usually are a little larger and broken into teams (IMO), but whatever. Answers were given, they're all valid, move along... move along...