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I'm guessing the unit scale is incorrect on the Southern Storm webpage. It is showing brigade unlike Red Storm which shows platoon. The screenshots look like it should still be the same scale as Red Storm.

I don't quite understand what you are referring to. I read thru the Game info and it reads correctly as to the scale of the game. You play at the level of battalion or brigade command. Your counters on the map are primarily platoons and companies which make up your maneuver formations.

I've always seen it used to discuss the size of units in the game, but that is mostly board wargaming. If you look at the store page for Flashpoint Campaigns Red Storm Player's Edition, it says Unit Scale: Platoon. Now looking at some other titles there are some odd entries. War in the East/War in the West unit scale is listed as Brigade. If they mean it to be the level of command you are playing at then the Red Storm entry seems off, not to mention the WITE/WITW entries. Not a big deal, just something I noticed when looking at the store page.

As Charles notes there is the Command level being emulated by the player which in the case of our games is a Battalion, Brigade, and Regiment commanders. The basic unit scale is platoon for us but there are units at section and company sizes depending on use and national doctrine. Hope that helps.

I understand that is the command level being emulated. On the store page does Unit Scale denote command level? If yes, then the Red Storm page has the unit scale wrong. If no, then the Southern Storm page has the unit scale wrong. The reason I brought this up is because the 2 pages were inconsistent with each other. Red Storm says platoon, and Southern Storm says brigade. Board wargaming has always used it to mean the size of the units you are pushing on the map, which is why it initially stood out to me.

Red Storm: Southern Storm:

I see what you are saying and the store page seems off. I'll pass that along to Erik and see if we can get it all correct.