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Originally Posted by Raellus
A friend asked me to play the unit commander in a T2K PbP and I was somewhat reluctant due to the above. I solved the problem by creating a PC who is an ex-USAF pilot, grounded by a lack of aircraft/parts/fuel, and placed into an army combat command due to attrition. He knows his limitations and confers often with his senior NCOs, sometimes deferring to their experience.
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I think in this situation, playing an admitted amateur, your PC should
always defer to your NCOs' experienced judgement, not just sometimes.
(Full disclosure: of course, I say this as someone playing an NCO in the game in question!)
I'm not being facetious, this is actually realistic.
In real life far better officers than your PC (combat-experienced infantry officers) always defer to their NCOs, if those NCOs have the experience and judgment to warrant it. The following is a real-life example of a Canadian Forces Captain and a Sergeant deferring to a well-respected Master Corporal (ranked beneath either) that I think I've posted before:
"The first time I saw him, he was quite literally presiding over a meeting between two sets of patrol leaders—one captain and one sergeant—during a long and arduous hike in the deep outback of western Panjwai.
The captain and sergeant would make plans, then kind of quietly look up at Doyle. With a headshake and a grunt, he’d torpedo their idea and they’d go back to the map. This went on for half an hour or more, as gunfire and explosions rippled overhead. With his rank obscured by his gear—his battle rattle—I assumed he was a warrant officer or maybe the company sergeant major, based solely on the deference and respect he received from the other soldiers, many of whom I knew to be cynics of the first order."
- From "The Life and Death of Erin Doyle"
http://www.legionmagazine.com/en/ind...of-erin-doyle/
While the CF has come under criticism in the past for being cheap on gear and vehicles (although this is largely but not entirely rectified now) I don't believe the quality and training of officers and NCOs in the field has ever been seriously questioned. In other words, this is not the case of incompetent leadership deferring to someone marginally less-incompetent.
Tony