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Hello All:

I have a quick question regarding splitting up a squad into teams. Does anyone know if a team has a harder time making morale checks under fire than a full squad? To put it another way, is it easier to cause a team to get pinned or panic?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Hello All:

I have a quick question regarding splitting up a squad into teams. Does anyone know if a team has a harder time making morale checks under fire than a full squad? To put it another way, is it easier to cause a team to get pinned or panic?

Thanks in advance for your help!

My feeling is that it actually makes your troops more resilient, since only a team at a time is getting suppressed/rattled/etc. Now, it might be that I changed from squad-based working to team-based at the same point I learned something important that made me a better shepherd of my dogfaces, since this gut feeling is hardly supported by exhaustive testing.

That said, however, I find it easier to handle the infantry in task-specific teams rather than as squads. I waste less bazooka rockets and rifle grenades that way.

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Hello All:

I have a quick question regarding splitting up a squad into teams. Does anyone know if a team has a harder time making morale checks under fire than a full squad? To put it another way, is it easier to cause a team to get pinned or panic?

Thanks in advance for your help!

I'm not sure about morale effects but I do know that if you split the squad into teams you can no longer use the assault move command. It is my favourite move command.

Having said that I do still split of scout teams once and a while and quite often I split off the bazooka team so the don't get chewed up when assaulting an infantry position.

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The reason the Assault command doesn't work is because each team in the squad takes turns "Quick"-ing to the waypoint.

Back in the CMBO days, teams were more likely thank squads to fail morale checks, but I don't know if or how much that's true of CMBN.

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I have an additional question for this topice : do you know how to regroup teams into squads ?

I have not found an option to do that.

it isn't a unit command, you need to just move them to the same action spot and given a short time (not sure exactly how short or if there are contributing factors like state of the unit) they will merge again.

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If you play as German, remember that the whole point of your squad tactics would have been is to support those fantastic MGs. Harder to do if everybody's clumped into a single dense unit. Split the squad and you can maneuver the MG aggressively on the flanks once you fix the enemy with the other teams.

As I understand it, the Allies did it the other way around -- the MGs and support weapons provided the base of fire for the other teams to assault, and flank.

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