10 people in squad?

[[md]MadMak[rus]]

As I know Russian fireteam/squad consists of 10 people (Officer, sniper, etc). Could this be done in Arma or it'll ruin gameplay?
I've never played Arma. I'm just wondering how it will be.

[STALKERGB]

A squad can be made up of any number of people in ARMA, the missionmaker has squad slots when you join and as far as I know, they can have as many, or as few slots per sqaud as they like.

[clueless_noob]

Does this squad layout need to be symmetric or can the other team(s) have different layout on the same map/mission? Like having a standard russian fireteam fight against arbitrary sized terrorist/infantry cell?

[STALKERGB]

as far as i'm aware, each squad can be made up of any size the mission maker chooses and as different from one side to the other as possible.

so say a brit squad of 6 and a taliban squad of 10 would be possible

[[md]MadMak[rus]]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]STALKERGB

so say a brit squad of 6 and a taliban squad of 10 would be possible

wow... that sounds epic

[cm.]

Man i'm not used to seeing these questions....

Yes.. squads can be made of any size, I think the maximum per group is pretty big, the most i've had in one group (or i guess you would call it a squad) is about ..... 20 ???

Could easily make them bigger though. I think each side is limited to 254 groups

edit: here are the stats:

Technically it is around here:

144 * 4 (144 groups per side, 4 sides) * 400. I got sick of copy-pasting units and adding them to a group after around 400, so, it might be higher.

Something makes me doubt that anything would be able to handle more than 230,400 players though ...

so it seems...


maximum of:
4 sides
144 groups per side
400+ men per group (not sure of exact amount)

that can be either all players, all AI (and 1 player) or a mix of both..I doubt we will be reaching these limits anytime soon.

[winchesterdelta1]

Or you can make 5 squads of 20 for 1 side and 24 squads of 1 unit for the other. Whatever you prefer or the mission maker prefers.