Hey. I'm going to keep this brief because I have a lot on my mind. Today is my birthday, and yesterday my uncle was sent to the hospital because some asshole ran him over. He'll live, but he's badly wounded, with multiple broken bones and internal organ damage. So I hope you'll understand if this is brief.

To put it simply : I can't write platoon level combat. Maybe I'm a shitty author, but I have tried and failed to write what I find to be satisfactory combat with the ERA's strike team against Alexandra's defenses. I have written two chapters worth of it, but pretty much by treating the individual squads as 'party members' and it's not working. I have asked my keepers for advice and nothing they could come up with would fit my style and how I do things.

So, simply put, this poll is to ask if you would be fine with me buffing up a few of the key members of the assault unit, having the rest die off (it won't be a 'rock falls, everyone not important dies', don't worry), and handling this as a party vs dungeon fight, which I do know how to write. As it is, I just can't do it with a platoon.

I'm asking more or less for permission because, as most of you know, I like to set up things in advance, and the leaders of that strike team being actually strong wasn't set up, at all. Their main advantages wer supposed to be their discipline and their numbers. They are soldiers, their phalanx, not their individual might, is their strength.

Anyway, that is all I had to say for today. Have a nice day, and see you next saturday.