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Mechanized Basic Training

Mechanized armor is more or less transport, attack, and artillery units that are transported by vehicles, and usually armored. The automization of the vehicles allows for heavier loads to be carried as long as fuel is provided, greatly increasing their range and payload. These heavier payloads necessitate the use of automated vehicles over organic power, such as horses or humans, and thus require engines, tracks or wheels. These vehicles eventually grew to be able to carry vastly heavier loads, becoming virtual behemoths on the battlefield, with massive armor and powerful weaponry. Cargo vehicles frequently ship oil, food, general supplies, and soldiers to soldiers out in the field, and these vehicles provide an impressive amount of roles, such as reconnaissance, transportation, field work, logistics, or even play direct action roles. With the evolving modern battlefield, modernized computers and electronics have been implemented, increasing firepower and adding

Because these vehicles are stationary and use the ground to support their weight, they can carry substantially heavier loads with better armor than aircraft, in addition to having better cover, allowing them to fulfill most roles on the battlefield, including indirect NLOS fire, anti-aircraft, and direct action. They are also incredibly cheap in comparison to many advanced aircraft. This allows for widespread distribution and proliferation of the technologies, enhancing infantry and ground combat capabilities.


Purpose
With the advent of mechanized vehicles, warfare was changed forever. Unprecedented advancements in both power and speed, as well as an increase in the ease of control, has allowed for capabilities simple unavailable before their introduction. Capable of transporting heavy armor, artillery, automatic weapons, and a nearly endless supply of ammunition, Soldiers are not longer limited by what they can carry on foot, but by what engines capable of transporting several tons could do. Everything from anti-air guns to howitzers suddenly became mobile, and the burden placed on troops for supplies and general transport suddenly became relaxed. Soldiers could be deployed thousands of miles without taxing them, on open roads, and then were only required to move a few hundred miles on foot, if that, with the support of vehicles in the rear as they advanced.

Mechanized vehicles revolutionized the battlefield, and still carry a considerable impact today. While not as maneuverable or fast as modern aircraft, they are significantly cheaper, and as well require less maintenance and can operate in less ideal conditions than aircraft. Low to the ground, easier to conceal, and capable of much more long term abuse, aircraft, which consume tremendous resources to remain in flight, and require to be constantly moving to allow them to remain in flight, simply cannot match the armor and long term use of ground based military vehicles. They are easier to handle and operate, and generally can afford to be proliferated on a much larger scale than aircraft, both in terms of price, and the difficulty of maintaining and coordinating their movement patterns. Where as a single aircraft often requires a crew of 30 or more people, a handful of mechanics can often work on a single vehicle.

Armored vehicles also have their weight supported in part by the ground, which takes the burden off of the vehicle's engine to remain in constant motion, which allows for the heaviest and most powerful weapons on the battlefield. While bested by aircraft in many ways, mechanized vehicles still possess an important niche role on the battlefield.

Basic Tactics!

This is largely where the most activity will occur, in the Navy. Despite the awesomeness of big things, very little activity will occur in the logistical command area, thus putting most of the action on the little guys. A large aircraft carrier with 2000-5000 crew will likely just have a maintenance job, where as the smaller, submarines and gunboats will likely have a more combat oriented job that isn't as one sided. You don't just click the trigger and go boom, combat will emerge.

Thus much more complex tactics are required in such scenarios. Like in all situations, war, like life, is chaotic, and at many times random; thus the best plan is the one that adapts to the scenario, and even the best plan is thrown out the window as soon as the first round is fired. However, general small unit tactics can be gone into depth, to provide basic info on the subject.


Submarine tactics
Submarine tactics are over-all very similiar to infantry ones, with a similiar fire team set up, and typical organization, although due to the size of submarine groups, they're more likely to act as single individuals instead of in fireteams of 3; thus, a single submarine is more similar to an entire fire team (although each submarine houses many people), although there are four of them, as in a typical fireteam. It is not uncommon for submarines to act in groups of four, instead of 12.

Typical submarine actions are to arrive stealthily; typically deployed from much larger ships, such as carriers, or with long range nuclear capacity, the objective is to reach the destination quickly, but once arrived, travel slowly to the target, as to avoid detection by unnecessary movement. Resisting passive and active sonar detection, as well as other identification methods, submarines are to very slowly, and stealthily approach their target; an ideal submarine mission ends without a significant fight; torpedo or missiles are launched and the craft leaves.