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| − | The land units of the [[Combined Defence | + | The land units of the [[Combined Defence Forces]] of [[Sober Thought game|Sober Thought]] are the core of the CDF because ultimately is it land forces that must occupy a defeated enemy and engage in reconstruction. |
However, each mission has its own requirements and the forces tasked to achieve that goal are tailored for that purpose. Headquarters companies of 100 personnel are employed at the corps, division and brigade level, and are distinguished by the rank of the Marshal, Vice Marshal or Commander involved. Large missions typically require at least one division. | However, each mission has its own requirements and the forces tasked to achieve that goal are tailored for that purpose. Headquarters companies of 100 personnel are employed at the corps, division and brigade level, and are distinguished by the rank of the Marshal, Vice Marshal or Commander involved. Large missions typically require at least one division. | ||
Revision as of 23:37, 30 August 2005
The land units of the Combined Defence Forces of Sober Thought are the core of the CDF because ultimately is it land forces that must occupy a defeated enemy and engage in reconstruction.
However, each mission has its own requirements and the forces tasked to achieve that goal are tailored for that purpose. Headquarters companies of 100 personnel are employed at the corps, division and brigade level, and are distinguished by the rank of the Marshal, Vice Marshal or Commander involved. Large missions typically require at least one division.
The general composition of a division will remain substantially the same, but the composition of specific brigades and their constituent battalions will vary greatly. Three field brigades (whether infantry, armoured or a mixture) provide the bulk of the fighting strength, usually augmented with a reconnaissance battalion of similar composition. Combat support is provided by artillery and engineering brigades, each of several battalions. The artillery battalions may be any mixture of air defence, anti-armour, rocket, field, pack or self-propelled artillery. The engineering battalions may be any mixture of assault engineer, mining, bridging, construction, water, electrical engineering or mechanical engineering. Non-combat support is provided by the support brigade, typically with medical, transport, supply and command (HQ, intelligence and police companies) battalions.
Independent field brigades are always beefed up, usually one the basis of approximately one third of divisional troops. Rather than take whole existing battalions from the support, engineering and artillery brigades, composite battalions are made by taking one company each from the parent battalions. E.g., a composite artillery battalion might consist of an HQ, air defence, anti-armour and two self-propelled artillery companies.
Field battalions are rarely broken up like their combat and non-combat support equivalents, but the are sometimes beefed up for small missions. For example, an infantry battalion might get armoured, artillery and engineering companies attached for a specific purpose -- nearly doubling the size of the battalion.
Companies are the smallest building blocks which are not broken up and rarely augmented.
