>>5248891I like this idea. It fits well with the "Triurii" battle doctrine I proposed earlier.
"Mind you, they would need to especially capable of survival to avoid overt attrition"
Hence why melee is better left for cheaper low quality troops, but it doesn't hurt to have melee specialists.
Forward Squads could be gifted hefty amounts of survival gear, so storm shields, more melee mechandendrites, a greater proportion of terminator armor and so on. They would in ideal circumstances not act alone by default but coordinate and work alongside our other frontline auxiliary and cyberneticae, but when the need arises fall back and form up specialist heavy hitter squads.
