Break Down Battalions or No??

[Ricky B]

I use a combo myself, depending on the situation. I NEVER worry about fatigue differences, outside of feeling free to breakdown a 4 company battalion into a single company and treating the rest as a normal battalion. This has been argued over many times, but overall the average fatigue for the battalion units are going to be approximately the same whether combined or separate - if a combined battalion takes fire that causes 100 fatigue, or right at the yellow level, using separate companies with one company taking the same fire would result in the one company having 300 fatigue, and thus max, while the other 2 would still be at 0. So there are trade offs there between having 2 low and one high fatigue companies vs one moderate fatigue battalion, vs the chance of losing one company while the others are still fresh, which is a permanent loss.

If you group the companies and fire at once, you will get the same basic firepower as if they were combined - although I do believe the separate companies might have more chance to disrupt the target as each fire is treated separately, but I am not sure there as John Tiller normally tries to make things as equivalent as possible, from what I have seen.

So I will frequently break them down to cover more frontage, but if in one hex I will normally try to keep combined unless something calls for breaking them down, then I don't worry about it.

Rick