GypsyComet
Emperor Mongoose
We're just getting up to speed on WaW locally and ran into a question. Well, several questions, but this one stuck out. It may be that our using 15mm made this more likely than it would be in 20mm or larger, since the troops tend to be closer packed in 15mm because it looks right.
The situation was of a Command Squad in cover behind a ruined tank (FoW Wrecked Crusader II, if you need the visual) while one of their associated Rifle Squads was advancing between the wreck and the next piece of cover over (a JR Minis supply dump). The Rifle Squad gets chewed up by enemy fire and very shortly is (internally) leaderless and below half strength, but is never outside of the Command Squad leader's command radius. With slightly different cover circumstances this also happened to the other side.
Can the Command Squad do anything about their own platoon? The section on being Out of Control mentions that some leader models have special rules for this, and I've seen the Soviet Commissar, but the idea that platoon command has no actual command effect on its constituent squads seems rather odd.
Are we missing something?
The situation was of a Command Squad in cover behind a ruined tank (FoW Wrecked Crusader II, if you need the visual) while one of their associated Rifle Squads was advancing between the wreck and the next piece of cover over (a JR Minis supply dump). The Rifle Squad gets chewed up by enemy fire and very shortly is (internally) leaderless and below half strength, but is never outside of the Command Squad leader's command radius. With slightly different cover circumstances this also happened to the other side.
Can the Command Squad do anything about their own platoon? The section on being Out of Control mentions that some leader models have special rules for this, and I've seen the Soviet Commissar, but the idea that platoon command has no actual command effect on its constituent squads seems rather odd.
Are we missing something?