[eUK] An Overview of a National MU ~ What have we got to lose?

Day 3,054, 14:08 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by Addaway

A couple of days ago I wrote an article calling for the eUK to unite its MUs into a single unit to try and improve the co-ordination of our damage and better pool our combined resources for the good of every fighter. It simply isn’t reasonable for the eUK to fragment its damage and fighters across eight major MUs when we have such a small community.

Today I want to build on that and set out specifics of how I envisage a national MU working, an MU that would improve our organisation, as well as protecting the unique identities and communities of each existing MU.

Here it is in visual form, and I’ll explain each element in greater detail below:



Organised, Centralised, but Culturally Diverse

Let me start by saying i’m not advocating for a bland, homogeneous MU with no character. I don’t want us to give up the unique communities that people have spent years building up. There is no need to.

What I am saying we should do is throw our lot in together and work under a unified command structure:

At the bottom we have the regiments, each ideally numbering between thirty and fourty, and at a minimum no less than 20 fighters. Each existing major MU has been allocated a number of regiments proportionate to the number of fighters in the MU. Upon the formation of the MU, the existing Commanders of the MUs will nominate which fighters will join which of their regiments, and nominate an initial Captain for each regiment.

Regiment’s will be able to choose their own ‘name’, in the same way that many existing MUs do now. So for example if the regiments allocated to the RN wanted to name themselves ‘HMS …’ and informally link together to still call themselves the Royal Navy- that’d be great! They would still be entitled to use their existing org and newspaper, and while they wouldn’t exist as a formal organisation within the MU, there’s nothing stopping people from organising informally to affiliate regiments together into largert branches of our armed forces.

Regiments 14 through to 18 would be for those fighters without a strong attachment to an existing MU, new players, those in small MUs, and those would like to be part of a new community with a new group of people.
Regiment Captains, aside from the first ones appointed by existing MU Commanders, will be appointed by the Commander of the Military Unit, on the advice of those in the relevant regiment and the other Regiment Captains. Captains would be charged with ensuring the DO is updated for their regiment, as well as communicating constantly with his fighters to ensure that all fighters are up to date on information they need.
The Command Staff will be made up of an MU Commander and up to two second-in-commands. The ‘Command Staff’ will be responsible for running the Unit-wide supply/reward system (see later section for more detail), setting of Combat Orders, directing damage to priorities set by the Minister of Defence and communicating those priorities to fighters, organising strikes and appointing Captains. The Command Staff will be appointed by the Minister of Defence from the pool of Regiment Captains. Government Ministers and Congress members will be excluded from holding these positions.
There will be an altered Minister of Defence above the MU Commander in this system, whose role will be to liaise between the MU, Cabinet, Congress and PLUTO in order to be able to set accurate priorities for the MU Commander to act on. The MoD will be responsible for overseeing all spending of public money by the MU Command to ensure that its being spent effectively and as intended.

Supplies

A tricky part of the MU to set up considering the potentially diverse supply networks that each MU might have. A simple solution is to establish that, obviously, every individual supplier has control over his own factories. If they still would like to just supply a certain regiment or members of the existing MU, then they can. I wouldn’t want to start demanding they turn over control to the MoD or such like.

But it would be best to encourage and incentivise people to pitch in to a single pot to cover the whole MU, from which a dedicated supply structure can be worked out after taking into account funding from Congress and any private donations. One way of doing this, other than appealing to their good nature, would be to have an increased tax rebate for those producing supplies for the central pot rather than for a narrower subsection of the MU; perhaps all the way to 100% of their WT back, with suppliers who choose to keep to themselves more (understandably, they will not be looked down upon) getting the existing 50% rebate.

This doesn’t cover all the specifics, but I think gives a good overview of the kind of National Unit that could be achievable. If we can both co-ordinate our damage better, promote a sense of national unity AND keep the spirits of our existing MUs alive then what do we have to lose?

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