Folks, I need your help!
Trying to do an OOB (Order Of Battle) for the Horses and we came across a problem. The Infantry.
Of all the Clans, the Horses are pretty much the only one to deploy Infantry in anything beyond a mere security or anti-bandit role. Save them, the Spirits who have to because they have no other recourse, and the Bears (largely as the Dominion) they're the only Clan that uses infantry anywhere near the front line or actually on it.
But how do they deploy them? Especially during a REVIVAL era setting.
Are infantry Star's (of any type, Motorized, jump pack, foot etc) part of a Cluster and just bid away 9/10 times, or are they attached to a Cluster on a more adhoc manner, or are they even part of the Cluster with several Stars of infantry attached to a Galaxy (5 stars would be 625 infantry after all), but not viewed as part of their order of battle (as you'd then have to take into account the transport forces, as well as things like engineers, medics, etc etc etc).
The idea me and Beachhead came up with is that the Infantry Stars, engineer formations, logistics units etc are a permanent fixture on a Galaxies OOB and are even part of certain Clusters that they have a history with, but on the whole they are part of the Galaxies HQ and are dolled out as needed. Against a Clan, such forces would just be bid away in most cases, but against the Inner Sphere that might well change.
The big problem is that with the Horses going and having lots of Nova formations (Star of Mechs and a Star of Tanks or Elementals or if the tanks can carry them anyhow, Elementals for sure!) is that a Hell's Horse cluster is BIG in numerical terms and if you add infantry Stars into the mix you're going to go beyond the 5 star to a cluster formation without wanting to bid away chunks of your Cluster if they are infantry/tank Nova's. And, by deploying more Nova formations, the Horses clusters would be numerically very big compared to other Clan's but if the 5 Trinaries to a Cluster is the upper limit of their size as mandated by Nicky's dumb ideas then you have to either have the infantry attached in some other way or form an Infantry Galaxy which then doles out the troops as needed and use the Galaxy basically as an administrative formation.
What do you folks think?