Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Units of Mesure (Recap.)

This is sort of a recap on my other post called, Units of Measure.

This is a single platoon sized unit in a pile.




There are two platoons in this pile.




There is one TROOP in this pile. (4-6 platoons... this is about 140 soldiers so I threw in 4 more to make it gross.)




There are two TROOPS in this pile (about 300 soldiers.)






This is a squadron sized pile. (4-6 troops = 1000 soldiers.)





Both of these photos are what a small regiment looks like all piled up. (There are about 3000 to 5000 soldiers in a cavalry regiment.)

This gives you an idea of the scale of what I am working with and how many of the soldiers I am working with when I deploy them into their piles.

Units of Measure

The word troop in the cavalry is a unit of measure...
This is sort of how it looks in the unit breakdown.



This is one soldier. A single unit, not troop.





This is a small section... maybe a detachment of a rank of unit measure. This could be the units that operate two M1 Abrams tanks. (Two drivers, and two gunners... )




This is a series of sections called ranks that form a unit called a platoon. The soldier that centers himself on the front of the platoon unit is called the platoon sergeant and the rear is platoon lieutenant.




I had to make more room in this photo because a troop is a large unit of measure that usually has 100 soldier or more, or 4 to 6 platoons. The soldier out front is first sergeant and rear is the Captain. The first sergeant to call attention or address the troop will then yell out the word troop because it is a troop sized element. My troop was Comanche Troop which meant that it was third in alphabetical order on a squadron sized unit. (Which is about 4-6 troops/or 1000 soldiers.)


I think that this type of example has been done before, but there is still snow on the ground so I have just been prepping my soldiers for their next wave of attacks. I would install them out in the snow, but I am not wanting the Winter Soldier referrence.