Suzaku Company Squad Information

[Moshi Shuichi]

At evil Bob's Request this is where you request a squad assignment for the Suzaku Company.

If you are a member of the Suzaku Company and have yet to pick your squad please use this as a means of asking questions about the three joinable squads and their leaders.


And please try to keep it OOC Free

[Moshi Shuichi]

General squad lay out and tactics and members.  This is by no means a exact measure of what squads do and if any changes are needed feel free to post in the meantime though.


Squad One: Heavy and some medium frontline infantry; assault and defense specialists. The key frontline battle squad, mostly heavy infantry and assault troopers - these men and women are generally the first of the infantry to meet the enemy and are most important in static defense actions due to their durability. Their superior skill at arms, armour and training ensure that they can out perform all other enemies in mass combat, usually after an infantry charge or in the form of a solid wall of strong samurai. Combined with Squad Three, all but the strongest enemies will fold in a direct engagement.

Gunso: Akodo Heisuke
Nikutai: Moshi Shuichi

Squad Two: Medium and light front line infantry; mobile infantry and Specialists. The more mobile of the infantry squads but rarely the direct assault squad. Squad Two can be relied upon to press home an advantage and is used to complement Squad One in various ways, such as spearheading attacks (preferably duel) against key enemy units/officers during a battle, quickly redeploying to weak points in the battle line or performing a holding action while slower elements withdraw. They may occasionally preform flanking maneuvers due to their slightly better maneuverability - but only if the scout Company cannot respond in time or are unavailable.

Gunso: Kistuki MasaKaze
Nikutai: Kakita Miki

Squad Three: Heavy and medium cavalry. Squad Three is primarily responsible for direct mobile assaults on important targets of opportunity or enemy elements that are proving hard to penetrate. They can lead an engagement or be used as a heavy reserve to finish a battle and then run down any remaining enemies. They are particularly useful in flanking actions and are also important in covering a retreat. They are also important in quick response to enemy assaults that may threaten non-frontline elements.

Gunso: Daigatsu Kuroyama
Nikutai: Open

[Kakita Hoseki]

Squad 2 is also the specialists.  Think duelists who move in groups to catch officers and others of that nature.  Not a scout/harrier unit just the stuff that happens in the middle of battle.

[Yoritomo Amano]

I was led to believe that Byakko's squad 2 was the flanking unit.

[Yoritomo Virendra]

According to the list in the Characters section, I'm in Two.

[Moshi Shuichi]

He moved you there after he changed three to the cav unit and 4 to a npc unit you are still able to choose between squad one or two if you like Virendra.

Three even if you can get a horse O.o

@ Amano I am unsure as to the way the scouts are organized but generally I figured they would join in with squad two for flanking maneuvers if one was necessary

[Evil Bob]

South Company is more of a charge forward and take it on the chin group.  I assumed the Calvary here would be heavy cav, while light cav goes over in the scout group.

[Moshi Shuichi]

okay that makes sense I wasn't sure what the cav squad did myself so I generalized it.

Also switched spelling to the correct one as my friend would say they aren't some hill in Jerusalem after all.

[Kitsuki Masakaze]

So we are finalising squad 2 as specialists, light-medium frontline infantry and... backup? No thanks, remove the backup reference. You can back us up sometimes too. Nobody is anyone's backup. Except the shugenja in the other company perhaps, and the scouts. We are all frontline squads. Two is just more mobile than One. May I propose:

Squad One: Heavy and some medium frontline infantry; assault and defence specialists. The key frontline battle squad, mostly heavy infantry and assault troopers - these men and women are generally the first of the infantry to meet the enemy and are most important in static defence actions due to their durability. Their superior skill at arms, armour and training ensure that they can out perform all other enemies in mass combat, usually after an infantry charge or in the form of a solid wall of strong samurai. Combined with Squad Three, all but the strongest enemies will fold in a direct engagement.

Gunso: Akodo Heisuke
Nikutai: Moshi Shuichi

Squad Two: Medium and light frontline infantry; mobile infantry and Specialists. The more mobile of the infantry squads but rarely the direct assault squad. Squad Two can be relied upon to press home an advantage and is used to complement Squad One in various ways, such as spearheading attacks (preferably duel) against key enemy units/officers during a battle, quickly redeploying to weak points in the battle line or performing a holding action while slower elements withdraw. They may occasionally preform flanking maneuvers due to their slightly better maneouverability - but only if the scout Company cannot respond in time or are unavailable.

Gunso: Kistuki MasaKaze
Nikutai: Kakita Miki

Squad Three: Heavy and medium cavalry. Squad Three is primarily responsible for direct mobile assaults on important targets of opportunity or enemy elements that are proving hard to penetrate. They can lead an engagement or be used as a heavy reserve to finish a battle and then run down any remaining enemies. They are particuarly useful in flanking actions and are also important in covering a retreat. They are also important in quick response to enemy assaults that may threaten non-frontline elements.

Gunso: Daigatsu Kuroyama
Nikutai: Open

[Yoritomo Amano]

Yeah, go ahead and call us 'backup'.  Then watch as your recon reports become less and less detailed.  >:O

[Kakita Hoseki]

Yeah, go ahead and call us 'backup'.  Then watch as your recon reports become less and less detailed.  >:O

Your only back up in the battle.  After all you don't want to lead the charge do you?  You just tell us where to charge.

[Kitsuki Masakaze]

Yeah, go ahead and call us 'backup'.  Then watch as your recon reports become less and less detailed.  >:O

That's fine. We can kick your ass anytime. Your recon should have told you that

Anyhow, let's keep this thread a bit more structured and less OOC. Do the cavalry people have anything to add/edit/etc?

[Seppun Shin]

You kids start picking up fights and I'll have you rinsing rice for the rest of the winter.

[Kitsuki Masakaze]

You kids start picking up fights and I'll have you rinsing rice for the rest of the winter.

Ahaha charming but you have no command over me Chui-sama. Also, again, please keep this ooc stuff to a minimum here. We'd like to properly discuss what the squads do and then have people apply for each if they so wish

[Moshi Shuichi]

I didn't say that you were back up unit's I meant you back up squad one's actions >.> we charge forward and engage their front line you move through us to duel their leaders and etc and so forth...  it was there to mean you don't usually take the brunt of a charge or often lead the charge.  There can after all only be one front line <,<   *teases slightly*

but back on topic i'll adjust the posts i was just meaning to keep em short and informative without too much fluff in em, to make for quicker reading but expanding is not bad.


this way it keeps the relevant information fairly high up on page one.