Unit Breakdown Penalty

[Jeff Conner]

I haven't worked with the OOB editor in PC or MC, so maybe there is a reason you can't do this, but if you think that NATO companies should have more staying power, then make them battalions in the OOB. You would have to remake the whole OOB, but you could have a brigade made up of regiments (which would actually be your battalions), which in turn are made up of units that are listed as being battalions (but are in reality, companies). I think this would give you what you want. The downside would be that the graphics wouldn't be correct and you couldn't combine units, although the only reason to do so would be to remove clutter. Your companies, which the game system would treat as battalions, will almost never break and will rarely reach high fatigue. Instead, they will continue to obey orders to the last man. And another advantage of this would be that since you can now break your companies into platoons, you can form company sized task forces by swapping infantry and tank platoons (which are listed as companies in the OOB).

And like I said, maybe there is a reason you can't do this. It would definitely change play balance from the current situation.

Jeff