Top Level Command

[Erik Springelkamp]

Yesterday I was playing the USMC scenario 'Just around the bend', and it made me wonder how command works with respect to units from different top level formations.

For instance when you attach engineers to a mech company, is their command integrated with battallion of the company.

Do they exchange information?

This question arose because:

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The Syrians have a tank platoon reinforcement that emerges from a canyon, with the USMC present on their left.

If they had even the slightest hint of information, they should be focussed on their left when they come around the corner, but in fact, they just moved straight forward, and were destroyed by LAV bushmaster cannonfire in their flank. The tanks only started to turn their turrets to the left after they came under fire.

I expected an ambush from the canyon, and I was still wondering how I would handle it when I would come close, but this outcome was kind of an anti-climax, and shortly afterwards the Syrians surrenderded for a total USMC victory.

So, is information shared above the line of command as shown in the command panel?

[Holman]

Given Syrian C2 capabilities, they're lucky the tanks didn't arrive on trains, twenty km away, with the crews on a different train fifty km moving in the opposite direction. Syrian C2 is a word problem from fourth grade.

But I don't know the answer to your question about C2 sharing across parent formations, and I hope you'll get a real answer.