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Big MAd drongo wrote

> Two times spare rounds plus a side arm plus grenade kit is alittle too
> heavy I find, especially early in the game.
> It gives a lot of flexibility on the battle field though.

Yeah, well I don't do my load outs like that.  Then again, in my recent
games, I'm really slacking on this issue - I'm going for 'quick games'
rather than serious campaign types, where I log every stat and chart
movement.  Even so, I always keep my heavy weapon 'nauts carrying only their
ammo and nothing else (of course they've got guns!).  Everyone else is
practically the same, bar the odd grunt who I use as a mule/medic.  Though
I'm trying to stick with eight 'naut teams for now, and even dispensing with
SWS support.  More fool me - my casualty rate is way too high because of it.

> Send some good shooters right to the rear of the ship at the start,
> these can snipe the snipers out and tend to be pretty well shielded.

Yeah, and stick gert big signs on them saying MC ME PLEASE!  hmmm? <g>  I
prefer to get my team inside the ship, so I know line of sight MC attacks
won't take place (heh, famous last words...)  But like I said, I've been
getting sloppy and my last cruise ship mission was a total disaster; worst
ever, in fact.  I dunno, I just got into the habit of clearing deck by deck,
working bottom to top.  Just seemed logical at the time and stuck.