[D3, EA, Simulator Room, closed] Vanguard Meeting

[Dorgan Bruun]

Bruun chuckles. "Well, the mercenary style is nothing consistent at all. Two commanders in the same unit won't even agree unless they've worked together a while and hammered out their differences."

"What's the Davion way of things?" He asks, realizing he should be more curious as a leader. "I don't think any of it will be things we've heard before." He smiles at the small joke.

[Andrea DeTroyes]

Andrea sighed, "Practice, practice, drill, drill. A lot of emphasis on combined arms and small unit tactics. Along with a codified doctrine that ensures a senior officer can give generalized orders and have a reasonable idea how their subordinates will apply them."

"The debriefings were also more formal."

[Gillian Chow]

“We’re not a Davion outfit,” Gillian said with a touch of asperity. “There’s no call to follow their example. Let’s figure out something that works for us.”

[Andrea DeTroyes]

Andrea shrugs, "He asked and told, I was trained by a Davion noble family and a Davion academy...then served with a Davion regiment. My own experiences are the AFFS and its ways. One filters new experiences through what they learned from past experiences."

"As for following their example...I never said we should, though practice and drill should be the staple of any competent force. It's obvious a merc outfit doesn't have the resources, manpower, or logistical flexibility to compete with the armed forces of a Great House."

[Gillian Chow]

“We’re a small security company, mostly fighting bandits,” Gillian argued. “I don’t think Davion doctrine... or that of any House, really... makes sense for what we’re contracted to do.”

“Some kind of small unit tactics training might be good, though,” she suggested. “Or at least a general plan of action for the next time we run into bad guys. What do you think, Bruun?”

[Dorgan Bruun]

Bruun is showing a widening smile as the women do more of the talking.

"Excellent. Share what you know, then we can figure things out. In here," he clarifies. "In a fight, it's what the major says or what I say, because there won't be time for debate. But the other thing there ain't time for on a battlefield is doubt. I don't want anyone doubting that I'm gonna do every damn thing possible to bring as many of us back from every battlefield as possible. I've been on enough battlefields you can trust I know the way home. If you don't like what I say in battle, do it anyway. Once we're all safe at home, then, formal or not, you can argue with me as much as you want."

"Now, as for small unit tactics, I'd like to see us in the sims, practicing what our fire teams can do and how that makes our lance work as one unit. Y'all up for more simulator time?"

[Andrea DeTroyes]

Andrea sighed again, "...I suspect we are talking past each other." She looked back to Bruun, "Your the 1SGT, setting up such things is ultimately your responsibility no? Perhaps the Major has some scenarios pre built or easy to pre build to run the Lance through?"