Working on a project for an ISaW scenario; looking for suggestions on units, especially merc units, that are less than 1 regiment in strength.
Some that are battalions, some that are in house books (3025 era fyi) as company strength.
I have ideas such as:
1. Reduce ACS strength and maintenance costs accordingly (fractionally). This makes a company strength unit listed really cheap.
2. Ignore company strength formations
3. Combine units that are battalion strength or less with other units for combat and maintenance purposes. (not my preference, but have at least thought of it)
This then leads into another problem, mostly to do with Capellan formations. I THINK I have an answer for this, and it may even apply to the others, but it penalizes starting Capellan commands a bit unfairly. That being said, they have enough expendable income to remedy some of this.
Several units ARE regiments that are understrength - Capellans are the biggest offender of this, with many regiments as listed only at 2 battalions.
My proposed solution; to treat these regiments as regiments (which they are as per the rules anyways) but missing a battalion... and therefore eligible for repair/refit to bring them up to strength.
Now... that could theoretically be applied to the other units/formations as well, but some are purposefully understrength, having never BEEN a regiment. Lindon's Company, Marshigama's Legionaires, that sort of thing. So it doesn't quite... fit.
It seems overpriced for such small units unless we get into fractions.
Anyone have any other ideas about handling this? I'm curious and open to suggestions.