Ok, I'm thinking like this.. You have 3 squads to a platoon. I'm going to set one aside for later and try to fill up 2 galaxies. If I can put 15 people in a squad, that means 1 galaxy = 1 squad, easy as pie, and the leftover squad will go into mosquitos and reavers for cover. That is a good operational group, and would be relatively simple to manage.
On the other hand, if a squad is 10 (and I'm afraid it is), it would be 1 squad in each galaxy plus each crew of 4, meaning that I could either put a third person in each buggy (for that one 3 man buggy) or field an entire 2 aircraft for cover and support. Now, if you forego the 2 man buggy and only carry lightnings or light buggies you can field a total of 4 reavers/mosquitos. That is marginally workable for covering two transports, but it is far from ideal.
So from an airbourne perspective, it means the difference between struggling with the squad system or having room to spare.
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