Kirkhill said:
3 cars per patrols
4 patrols per troop
3x4=12 cars per troop.
12 cars per troop? So 4 troops per squadron? Thus 48 plus the BC and the OC? So 50 cars per Squadron? Thats 200+ LAV's per regiment! Yikes.
My question would be why are you going to patrols? Why not stick to the troop as the smallest unit? Unless you are considering the fire team (2 vehicles) as the smallest? Are you expecting to create a Scout unit? Why?
Might I suggest something else? How about sticking closer to what we have already except actually creating a fire team? 2 per troop? Thus 6 LAV's per troop. I would also incorporate the MGS.
Thus you have:
4 LAV III's (hopefully with TOW on turret) + 24 dismounts (6 ea.)
2 MGS
Thus a trp would have plenty of firepower, and good coverage for cover and movement.
You can have 2 or 3 of your trps in this formation and 1 or 2 of your trps looking like this:
2 LAV III (coyote package) + 8 dismounts
2 LAV III (TOW) + 12 dismounts
2 MGS
This would cover your scouting needs within the squadron.
Squadron BC and OC would also be in LAV III's with dismounts, albeit only 4.
You would have SHQ with a LAV C&C and LAV engineer/dozer and LAV APC for the Liason (19E).
You would also have your RHQ recce troop with 10 Gwagons that could be supplied by the reserves and attached to the lower elements depending on deployment needs. Attached to RHQ would be your engineering trp as well as a Fire support LAV Mortar/arty and/or TUA trp.
Thus your only dealing with 26 LAV's per squardon F ech of which 8 are MGS, plus the other 5 LAV's in SHQ for a total of 31 per squardon. You could bump that up a bit depending on what style of LAV (supply, recovery and ambulance) you would want in your A1 or A2 ech.
This would be much easier to supply vehicle/personal wise and would give us the punch and recce abilities we would need to do the job.
I dropped the MMEV (ADATS) as it totally slows down the mobile nature of the Cavalry with its 15 minute set up time. It could be a sperate trp attached to brigade level for BHQ protection.
I am writting up a formation at the moment as to what I think a good cavalry unit would look like Canadian style. Its based heavily on our own armoured and recce style units with dismounts added. The basic's are above. I'll post it later.