I’ve seen it mentioned a lot, and I just want to reiterate and show my support for it.
“Sub-squads
Commanders would be able to appoint sub-commanders. To do that, they can right click on the health bar, chat name or name in the squad roster, and select “Appoint/Demote sub-commander”.
Once a sub-commander is appointed, commanders can select multiple names in quad roster and drag and drop them on the commander name, thus adding them to the sub-quad. Draggin a sub-commander into a sub-squad would not create a nested sub-squad, instead, that would demote the sub-commnder to normal squad member and add them to that sub-squad.
Sub-commanders have their own commander emblems and icons on the map that are clearly different to the commander icon (e.g.: smaller, different shape, etc). Only squad members can see sub-commander icons and emblems. Subcommanders also get an effect icon “Sub-commander: You have been appointed as sub-commander. Source: <Commander’s name>.
Commanders can drag and drop those icons on the map to give particular orders to those sub-commanders. For example, drag Sub-commander A’s icon to an enemy supply camp, release there, the “commander order” panel appears (the same one that appears with Alt+click), choose “attack” → members of sub-commander A’s squad will see a commander attack icon in that camp, but other sub-squads and players not in a sub-squad won’t see that.”
This. It would make havocs a bit more viable, letting people know who is in charge of what, and the commander would be able to say “Lieutenant Jimmy, take your group to north and get sup” instead of “I need 5 people to get sup from north” and having none-everyone going. I’m not too great at writing, but just wanted to cast my opinion.
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