Then a less than Division battle gets boring. I enjoy a good mix of units. Others enjoy SLDF companies of Phoenix Hawks. There are the following canon LII options-
Alpha-6M
Beta-5M1V
Gamma-2M4V/3M3I(Foot)
Delta-2M2V2I/4M2I/4M2V
Epsilon- 4M2I(Jump)/4M2V/6M
Iota-4M2I(Jump)/2V4I(mixed)
Kappa-3M1V1I(APC)
Lambda-6V
Mu-4V2I(APC)/4M2V
Pi-4V2I(Mechanized)/6A
Rho-6I(Foot)
The bold are in the (little) more consistant Twilight of the Clans. Nevermind for a second about obvious typos (epsilon being 6M), and the doubled up and contradictory ones, I think we can say that mixed LIIs are pretty common. As an alpha-III would preclude a lot of options (and get boring, there's only so many ways to have fun with TR:2750 'Mechs.) Should 3 or 4 be pure, alpha/lambda, sure. But variety is the spice of life.
Question.
Where are you getting those L2's from?
Scenario Books or from a Source Book?
I wouldn't put too much weight on scenario books.
They are, after all, just created for people to play a fun game & not be strictly adhered to as gospel canon.
Much like RAT's don't offer every single option available to a faction.
I also wouldn't put much weight on a greek letter designation for a L2, since after all, its the L3 that should have that designation & then all L2's included are not created equal.
Much like a L4 Division is not made up of L3's that have the same designation.
Its an average & inside those L3's will be different types of L2.
I completely agree that variety is spice.
I'm just saying if you are trying to come up with what entire Battalions/Divisions look like then your running a bit too many "Mixed" forces.
As I mentioned above, I really like L3's & set mine up to be mostly pure L2's but with options for a Mixed L2.
I find a 4 pure L2s (Mech, Mech, ASF, Infantry) is a good core w/ a pair of Mixed (Tank/Infantry/BA/APC/Arti) in various degrees gives me a good ability to flesh things out.
I don't have any single ASF, and every LIII should have at least 2. There should be a paired or (x2). If not, typo on my end. As for 39, that's a stupid number, and I'm not sure what they are going for. I think someone said close enough, which i'm ok with. My issue is (as discussed above), before the invasion, a planet was lucky to get a Level II. If ASFs were only in pure LIIs, no planet would have one on planet (they'd probably be station-bound). Which, yeah, I guess, but then the combined-arms heavy ComGuard never works with their aerospace buddies. I don't like it. My other option was to remove ASF completely from the above groups, which I thought was cheating and not fitting in with the established combined-arms focus.
My bad then, I double checked, I thought the Sparrow Hawk was listed as a single.
But I do see the 2x now.
As for deployment per world. I think the range was from "several L1s" to 2x L3.
Honestly, I don't know what the difference is between, "A L2" and "Several L1's"
6 seems like "Several" to me.
But I get that it might be less than a full L2.
If you count APCs and non-combat vehicles, I'm sure it does. I believe worktroll notes it below, but I strongly disagree with counting APCs. In the above canon list, they have a 4M/2 FOOT infantry Level II in Fall of Terra. That's ridiculous. Throw an unwritten couple of APCs, now we're talking a combat-capable force. Does Twilight of the Clans get around that by having a lamda-II of APCs and a rho-II of foot infantry? Sure. Then a lot of my vehicle numbers are used up by "worthless" APCs and there's no chance I'm having an awesome LIV on Cluster fight like I want.
I think the best suggestion that I have ever seen for this is to count "APCs" as "Infantry" in the total 216 count
So a "Pure" L2 of "Infantry" could be any of the following.
6 Foot Platoons
6 Mechanized-Wheeled Platoons
3 Foot Platoons + 3 Heavy Hover APC
3 Jump Platoons + 3 Karnov-UH
I like that option because it keeps things "honest" in the 216 count & yet also gives you the option of nothing but foot sloggers for garrison inside the walls of a fortification to some highly mobile rapid response infantry.
And really, that 3rd option makes for a great world garrison to some backwater 'B' class HPG.
Nothing but 3 platoons of infantry & their transports.
No tanks or mechs or fighters.
The kind of thing that 25-50% of C* garrisons would look like really.
Some other world in the area, a PDZ capital, or minor factory world, might rate 3x L2s.
And in that world you might see the "Pure" L2 of Mechs & "Pure" L2 of Fighters assigned along w/ an Infantry L2
I'll grant the artillery types. I don't use too much artillery, and I was hesitant to have them not all just be ArrowIVs. I still may.
Like I said before, I'd just pick a single gun type for logistics reasons, & only assign that gun type to a L3.
A single battalion of 36 units doesn't need to call on the entire range of Artillery options.
And at a place where all those divisions were combined like Tukkayid, they could reassign fire from wherever they needed it I'm sure.