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Ehehe.Dp4m wrote:Also -- what's a regiment? (To me a regiment is 108, a battalion is 36, a company is 12 and a lance is 4).
"To me a regiment is 108"NecronLord wrote:Ehehe.Dp4m wrote:Also -- what's a regiment? (To me a regiment is 108, a battalion is 36, a company is 12 and a lance is 4).
Let's just all pause and have a laugh at the battletech units. There must be a name for this absurd fallacy...
Funny, the OoB of the GAR says 2,304 troops...See above. It seems as if he's unaware that the individual senators represents more than a single planet (some of them represents thousands of inhabited planets).IceHawk-181 wrote:I can't find Tarkin's quote about a million systems in my copy of the Trilogy for some reason...where the fuck did it go?
I do not understand how someone can misinterpret the words, "every planet" and "systems" to mean only the Sector capital......I thought there were some TFN native intellectuals...
Now the Empire of a million planets was predated by a Republic of only 1,024?
Grasping at straws much Dp4m? Is defending your minimalist stance so important that you?NecronLord wrote:Ehehe.Dp4m wrote:Also -- what's a regiment? (To me a regiment is 108, a battalion is 36, a company is 12 and a lance is 4).
Let's just all pause and have a laugh at the battletech units. There must be a name for this absurd fallacy...
It's in the SW novel for easy pickings.IceHawk-181 wrote:I can't find Tarkin's quote about a million systems in my copy of the Trilogy for some reason...where the fuck did it go?
I do not understand how someone can misinterpret the words, "every planet" and "systems" to mean only the Sector capital......I thought there were some TFN native intellectuals...
Now the Empire of a million planets was predated by a Republic of only 1,024?
double-penetration 4 men wrote:
IceHawk-181, look at what you're posting:
as governors over every planet in the Republic
Governors OVER every planet in the Republic. Which is explicitly NOT governors ON every planet in the Republic.
And D-K, we've already established (just now) that we don't know how many governors there are. Adding to that, if they arrive at different times, they could be arriving with a rotating security force so people think they have a large contingent of troops (and then they move onto the next arrival). No one said they were all arriving at once...
NecronLord wrote:Ehehe.Dp4m wrote:Also -- what's a regiment? (To me a regiment is 108, a battalion is 36, a company is 12 and a lance is 4).
Let's just all pause and have a laugh at the battletech units. There must be a name for this absurd fallacy...
Posted. Thanks, Mange.Mange the Swede wrote:Yeah, Cloak of Deception states that Palpatine was senator of Naboo as well as 32 other inhabited planets.
EDIT: I checked CoD and it was actually 36 other planets. My mistake.
USMC TO&E; 1 Battlion is 3 infantry companys and 1 weapons company (plus HQ element). 1 infantry company is 3 infantry platoons and 1 weapons platoon. A platoon is 3 squads of 13 plus a PtCm and PltSgt. So 40 times 4 is 160 times 4 is 640. Plus or minus a bit for HQ elements, or even short staffed units, figure 2/3's of what you just said.Imperial Overlord wrote:NecronLord wrote:Ehehe.Dp4m wrote:Also -- what's a regiment? (To me a regiment is 108, a battalion is 36, a company is 12 and a lance is 4).
Let's just all pause and have a laugh at the battletech units. There must be a name for this absurd fallacy...
Of course, that was just for mechs. A BT infantry regiment is nearly a thousand men.
What this guy is doing is pure desperation. Not surprising when the position you are arguing for is weak.IceHawk-181 wrote:We now quibble over the definitions of the words over and on.
Why Mr. President, I didn’t know you were a moderator.
Why can no one on those damn boards use a literal interpretation of the goddamn words? Bail says “over” denoting a level of authority, our good moderator seems to think over refers to some galactic position “above” the world.
Maybe he thinks every governor arrived with an Acclamator or a Venator and rules from orbit.
Certainly would up the Clone figures….
Excuse me...?double-penetration 4 men wrote:
IceHawk-181, look at what you're posting:
as governors over every planet in the Republic
Governors OVER every planet in the Republic. Which is explicitly NOT governors ON every planet in the Republic.
And D-K, we've already established (just now) that we don't know how many governors there are. Adding to that, if they arrive at different times, they could be arriving with a rotating security force so people think they have a large contingent of troops (and then they move onto the next arrival). No one said they were all arriving at once...
For one world? Delusional much?108 troopers
I'm aware modern regiments are larger than Battletech ones. I'm just saying that he's not using numbers that are accurate for even the Battletech universe (4 squads of 7=platoon, 3 platoons=company, 3 companies=battalion, 3 battalions + supporting units=regiment).Knife wrote: USMC TO&E; 1 Battlion is 3 infantry companys and 1 weapons company (plus HQ element). 1 infantry company is 3 infantry platoons and 1 weapons platoon. A platoon is 3 squads of 13 plus a PtCm and PltSgt. So 40 times 4 is 160 times 4 is 640. Plus or minus a bit for HQ elements, or even short staffed units, figure 2/3's of what you just said.
Yes. See the Palpo-pokemon post by me. It's their last cop-out (3 mil jump from here to there) and it is extremely funny.Is he trying to say they ROTATE troops from world to world to make them seem more numerous?
Funny then, how the ROTS novel explicitly has GAR regiments sent to each and every single governor, as well as the GAR being locked in battles and sieges on hundreds of worlds at the same time!IT WASN'T HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME.
Well, I'm a bit nonplussed about this whole thing. I like TF.N|LF too. But... eh.Master of Ossus wrote:The thread has, apparently, been deleted. That's judging from the fact that it no longer appears on the Lit Forum.
