PW: Behind the Scenes: Building Task Force Atlas

[The United Remnants of America]

So.

Indepdendence as a unit.

Task Force Atlas should be fully independent as a force, with standalone assets tasked just for the unit. The base, while not necessarily the base for Task Force Atlas, obviously supports the unit as a major priority.

[Organized States]

So.

Indepdendence as a unit.

Task Force Atlas should be fully independent as a force, with standalone assets tasked just for the unit. The base, while not necessarily the base for Task Force Atlas, obviously supports the unit as a major priority.

I have a base and support assets.

Atlas Compound in Fort Bragg?

[The United Remnants of America]

So.

Indepdendence as a unit.

Task Force Atlas should be fully independent as a force, with standalone assets tasked just for the unit. The base, while not necessarily the base for Task Force Atlas, obviously supports the unit as a major priority.

I have a base and support assets.

Atlas Compound in Fort Bragg?

So Bar and Grill and Atlas Base in OS?

[Organized States]

I have a base and support assets.

Atlas Compound in Fort Bragg?

So Bar and Grill and Atlas Base in OS?

That's fine with me.

Just don't make the MPs show up too often. Keep it civil.

[The United Remnants of America]

So Bar and Grill and Atlas Base in OS?

That's fine with me.

Just don't make the MPs show up too often. Keep it civil.

Okay, so it's official.

Atlas' HQ is Fort Bragg, Organized States.

[Vancon]

That's fine with me.

Just don't make the MPs show up too often. Keep it civil.

Okay, so it's official.

Atlas' HQ is Fort Bragg, Organized States.

So, it'd be in Cali, no?

[The United Remnants of America]

Okay, so it's official.

Atlas' HQ is Fort Bragg, Organized States.

So, it'd be in Cali, no?

Doesn't have to be.

I mean, his Fort Bragg could be in a different location, since it could easily be a name coincidence.

[Organized States]

Okay, so it's official.

Atlas' HQ is Fort Bragg, Organized States.

So, it'd be in Cali, no?

Not quite.

Fort Bragg's in North Carolina.

[Vancon]

So, it'd be in Cali, no?

Not quite.

Fort Bragg's in North Carolina.

Fuckin' 'Muricians

[Organized States]

Not quite.

Fort Bragg's in North Carolina.

Fuckin' 'Muricians

Well, considering that Fort Bragg is named after a Confederate General, it'd be hard to have it in a Union State.

[The United Remnants of America]

Fuckin' 'Muricians

Well, considering that Fort Bragg is named after a [REDACTED] General, it'd be hard to have it in a Union State.

A what general?

I don't know what you're talking about. Nonsense. Now shoo before the feds hear you say that illegal word again.

[Hurtful Thoughts]

Well, if we trash Fort Bragg, we could always crash at an old abandoned base on New Roanoke Island, mind the local mutated wildlife, though. I've gotta get that interdimensional gate to hell fixed.
-It's not really that bad, but the folks like to build-up a 'lore' surrounding "hell-month" of spec-ops training. Doesn't help that during some of this training they're doped-up like a stoner.

There's a good backstory to why the base is abandoned, though. Simply put, it was never intended to actually be used by my forces, but on the upside it has a ridiculously large warehouse of odd things. Accomodations as noted in the bar-thread, are pretty epicly fail unless you stay at the "haunted" officers' cabins... they only get called that because every officer who has slept in them has gone missing (a non-fantasy legitimate reason, but my people like their lore-craft and never honestly tried proving this one wrong).

Just... for gods sake, stay away from the north-shore... I have some business to attend to there.

[Congreveopia]

Well, if we trash Fort Bragg, we could always crash at an old abandoned base on New Roanoke Island, mind the local mutated wildlife, though. I've gotta get that interdimensional gate to hell fixed.
-It's not really that bad, but the folks like to build-up a 'lore' surrounding "hell-month" of spec-ops training. Doesn't help that during some of this training they're doped-up like a stoner.

There's a good backstory to why the base is abandoned, though. Simply put, it was never intended to actually be used by my forces, but on the upside it has a ridiculously large warehouse of odd things. Accomodations as noted in the bar-thread, are pretty epicly fail unless you stay at the "haunted" officers' cabins... they only get called that because every officer who has slept in them has gone missing (a non-fantasy legitimate reason, but my people like their lore-craft and never honestly tried proving this one wrong).

Just... for gods sake, stay away from the north-shore...

"RTB" should not be a more dangerous order than "fix bayonets and charge the machine gun".

[Hurtful Thoughts]

Just... for gods sake, stay away from the north-shore...

"RTB" should not be a more dangerous order than "fix bayonets and charge the machine gun".

Nah, the real reason for the ghost stories is because there's was concentration-camp of "undesireables" on the island (note on past-tense), and we like keeping that secret (and others) to the grave.

Blackhelm Confederacy won't be getting those POWs back anytime soon.

Yeah, I suppose putting a team of the world's most self-righteous elite spies and super-soldiers on the very same island as incriminating evidence of past misdeeds would be a bad idea.
*Although hilariously, the last time I made that mistake the one person who found-out decided it was safer to try swimming home, naked. Needless to say, he didn't make it.

"The Prisoner" indeed.

[Greater Soviet Ukraine]

Well hello. Still working on the Bar and Grill thread are we?

[The United Remnants of America]

Well hello. Still working on the Bar and Grill thread are we?

What'cja mean?

[Greater Soviet Ukraine]

Well hello. Still working on the Bar and Grill thread are we?

What'cja mean?

World Building. I can be slightly vague sometimes, sorry about that.

[The United Remnants of America]

What'cja mean?

World Building. I can be slightly vague sometimes, sorry about that.

Just TFA in general, really.

[Military Democracy of Birtonia]

What we be discussifying meow?

[The United Remnants of America]

What we be discussifying meow?

.... What?

I swear, it's like I'm dealing with TomSka and Mr. Weeble here....

[Military Democracy of Birtonia]

What are we talking about now?

[The United Remnants of America]

What are we talking about now?

What the command structure is like, also, if that command group is at Fort Bragg.

[Greater Soviet Ukraine]

What are we talking about now?

What the command structure is like, also, if that command group is at Fort Bragg.

1. Commander-in-Chief of Task Force Atlas (has authority over the entire force)--> Company Major (commander of all forces in an operation)--> Platoon Sergeant (commander of a team of two to three squads, like the nuke teams in Legion)-->Squad Leader (commander of an individual squad)-->Squad Member(cannon fodder an individual soldier.)
2. Yes.

[The United Remnants of America]

What the command structure is like, also, if that command group is at Fort Bragg.

1. Commander-in-Chief of Task Force Atlas (has authority over the entire force)--> Company Major (commander of all forces in an operation)--> Platoon Sergeant (commander of a team of two to three squads, like the nuke teams in Legion)-->Squad Leader (commander of an individual squad)-->Squad Member(cannon fodder an individual soldier.)
2. Yes.

No.

We've already addressed low command. I meant higher command.

Command structure accepted so far is this: Higher Command --> Field Commander(equivalent of your ComMaj.) --> Squad Leaders --> Squad Members.

The reason for this is a platoon sergeant would either need to be a squad leader in addition to a platoon sergeant, or an extra man in the field, which causes a whole score of issues for either option.

[Congreveopia]

1. Commander-in-Chief of Task Force Atlas (has authority over the entire force)--> Company Major (commander of all forces in an operation)--> Platoon Sergeant (commander of a team of two to three squads, like the nuke teams in Legion)-->Squad Leader (commander of an individual squad)-->Squad Member(cannon fodder an individual soldier.)
2. Yes.

No.

We've already addressed low command. I meant higher command.

Command structure accepted so far is this: Higher Command --> Field Commander(equivalent of your ComMaj.) --> Squad Leaders --> Squad Members.

The reason for this is a platoon sergeant would either need to be a squad leader in addition to a platoon sergeant, or an extra man in the field, which causes a whole score of issues for either option.

On operations where we're radio silent, each squad will pretty much have to be making decisions on its own, unless they all happen to be in the same place, so the effectiveness of a platoon sergeant would be greatly reduced. On operations where we're not radio silent, we'll be sending all of our intel back to Fort Bragg and analysing it on the fly, which raises the point that the platoon sergeants might not need to actually be in the field...