FM: SLDF Question on Numbering of Brigades

[FirstStarLord]

Hello,

On page 13 of the FM, it explains that brigades are normally named for their divisions (i.e. the first brigade of the 9th Battlemech division is the 91st brigade). My question is this: what happens when there are two divisions that share the same number? Like the 1st Infantry Division and the 1st Royal Mechanized Infantry Division. Do the numbers pick up from the last division (i.e. the first brigade of the 1st RMID is the 94th)?

Also, how are the divisions' armored brigades numbered? I assume they would be the 4th in most cases.

Thank you for any help you can provide.

[J_Schmetzer]

Because the brigades are organic to the division, and would be redesignated if assigned to another division, there can be more than one 91st Brigade.


The type of combatant deployed is irrelevant to the numbering. A division in the SLDF (outside of special circumstances) was comprised of three brigades (1st, 2nd, 3rd...)

[FirstStarLord]

Thanks for the initial response. So my next question is how your statement about the divisions having only three brigades works with the statement from Liberation of Terra Vol. I pg. 36 that each division has an attached armor brigade. Were they nominal assets linked to the division to provide support as necessary but otherwise served as garrison units?

Thanks again.

[J_Schmetzer]

The importance is in the wording. "Attached." A unit attached to a division would not be an organic part of that division, hence would incorporate it's own independent naming convention.

[FirstStarLord]

OK, last question (on this subject  ;)). When an armor brigade is attached to a front-line division (or an armored regiment to a front-line brigade), is it still considered part of the Reserve Command, or is it considered part of Regular Army Command? The FM is sort of vague on this distinction.

Again, I really appreciate you answering all of this.

[J_Schmetzer]

Again, using the verb "attached," it continue to be part of Reserve Command, although it would fall under the authority of whatever combatant command it was attached to. For all practical intents it purposes, it would be part of the attached-to unit, but technically still within its own structure.