(This comment is in response to your question on command style - timestamped at 03:00pm)
I'm not sure I understand your question, or possibly we're using the same words to mean different things.
Command style is the way in which a commander gives orders and deals with their inferiors. For example, Hel's 'command style' is to prefer to give minimal orders, trusting her friends to know what to do and only giving direct orders when she feels it necessary. She rarely gives orders about tactics or fighting manoeuvres unless she notes something important or feels that the people involved require them.
Tactics are completely different. Tactics are the actual actions which orders might be given to do such as "form a shield wall", "skirmish", "distract them while/until x", "charge", "wait for them to come to us"... I could probably go on but I'm sure you get the point.
Individual commanders will all have their own command style but regardless of this should be able to use a variety of tactics and see when and where different tactics would work/help/hinder. As such a commander might need to occasionally maintain a different command style (Hel's preferred style works so long as she is with her usual group of friends but without them she has to give more direct orders) but would certainly not need to change it for every different person. However, they would probably need to change tactics regularly - not only different members of their patrol but different enemies and different terrains.
Does that answer your question? Or have I missed your point?
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Date: 2007-04-06 04:42 pm (UTC)I'm not sure I understand your question, or possibly we're using the same words to mean different things.
Command style is the way in which a commander gives orders and deals with their inferiors. For example, Hel's 'command style' is to prefer to give minimal orders, trusting her friends to know what to do and only giving direct orders when she feels it necessary. She rarely gives orders about tactics or fighting manoeuvres unless she notes something important or feels that the people involved require them.
Tactics are completely different. Tactics are the actual actions which orders might be given to do such as "form a shield wall", "skirmish", "distract them while/until x", "charge", "wait for them to come to us"... I could probably go on but I'm sure you get the point.
Individual commanders will all have their own command style but regardless of this should be able to use a variety of tactics and see when and where different tactics would work/help/hinder. As such a commander might need to occasionally maintain a different command style (Hel's preferred style works so long as she is with her usual group of friends but without them she has to give more direct orders) but would certainly not need to change it for every different person. However, they would probably need to change tactics regularly - not only different members of their patrol but different enemies and different terrains.
Does that answer your question? Or have I missed your point?