Category talk:Mercenary Commands

I feel there are a few "incorrect" links. I've seen that for example we have links to the Illirian Lancers... and also its subcommands. Shouldn't we have only single article and from there calling the individual units?

In what way are the links incorrect?--Dmon (talk) 06:18, 15 December 2017 (EST)

I feel we should link here only the global units, and link the subunits to the principal ones --Pserratv (talk) 09:59, 15 December 2017 (EST)

I feel the complete opposite. I feel pages like the Wolf's Dragoons especially are huge and massively over detailed. The info should be broken up into more manageable chunks in my opinion.--Dmon (talk) 10:52, 15 December 2017 (EST)

I haven't explained myself well. I mean that in mercenary commands we only put the mercenary units, and inside the mercenary we put the links to the subunits, like we do for RCT for which when possible unit members are listed and linked; or with the Inner Sphere March Militia units.--Pserratv (talk) 11:49, 15 December 2017 (EST)

Ah, yes I am not sure what you mean. Do you mean in the category pages where the subunits appear under the parent unit?--Dmon (talk) 12:28, 15 December 2017 (EST)

I meant that we should only put there the big commands (like Kell Hounds, and not the individual battlations there), and in the general article of the unit do something like the links we have in big commands: Syrtis Fusiliers

This is part of a greater issue that goes for military units in general here on Sarna: If the units in question are larger than a regiment in size then their individual sub-regiments get their own page. The focal formation is the regiment.
This kind sorta evolved out of the BattleTech setting where the 4-'Mech lance was the yardstick, sourcebooks were written about individual companies, and regiments were essentially the largest formations cohesively mentioned in any source material. In the Succession Wars era, brigades and larger formations simply didn't exist as battlefield formations - the only brigades we knew were essentially organisational brigades. A few mercenary brigades existed but even these were usually covered through their individual regiments.
As BattleTech fiction evolved to ever-larger scales, so too did the unit sizes involved grow; and Alpha Strike also raised the boardgame level from small groups of individual 'Mechs to much larger formations.
This wasn't so much planned out or decided as it simply happened. But I don't think a change is required. As far as I can see, the focus is still on regiment-sized (or smaller) units, so the regiment remains a viable organisational cut-off size for articles. The brigade articles need to exist, of course, but as was said above, they would be too long if they had to give details on each component regiment so an overview article about brigades with links to individual regiments seems to be the best way to go about it, at this time at least and in my own humble opinion. Of course, that's not set in stone. Frabby (talk) 07:58, 16 December 2017 (EST)

My comment was that in this exact page we are showing at same level as mercenary commands, for example the Kell Hounds, 1st Kell Hounds, 2nd Kell Hounds Regiment, and for me, in this case for example only the Kell Hounds link should be there as the other two are just the units inside the big command and not mercenary units themselves