Shogunate of company commander
You never see your unit in its entirety. In the years 14-21, people were either on training or vacation, or business trips or in prolonged AWOL (absence without leave). Now, many people are wounded, there are vacancies, and there is a constant turnover of personnel: some are transferred, some are promoted, some are discharged, some are treated, etc. As a result, the classic company-platoon-unit management scheme almost ceases to work.
Commanders often leave as well. Being an officer or a sergeant does not give you immunity from the variety of b#ll-end flying here and there. Positions are hit by snipers and AGSs. The checkpoints and access roads are actively bombarded by artillery. A joke about "Till the КAB do us part" has already been made. And laughs about getting promoted if Kinzhal successfully f*cked up a control center somewhere.
A company is rarely as large as a company. Usually, it is a collection of units. Therefore, the main task is to identify the unit commanders. Are these your loyal samurai? To whom you give soldiers and they manage them. They dig up their strongpoints, storm enemy landings. If possible, you take one unit to the rear to jchillin and it replaces the other units when you take them out to wash. All your work spins around your samurai. Sometimes these samurai are called warriors, governors, wolves. This is a man who leads his men into battle. The commander of the unit.
You give a samurai fighters. A few experienced ones, a couple of new ones or sane ones. And you complete the number with lazybones. Because the lazybones also need to be put to work somewhere. And an average lazybone can fight pretty well if there are experienced fighters to the left and right of him, and a samurai waving a katana in front of him, and the company's walkie-talkie shouts of "KILL THE F#CK!!! Range setting is 140, keep the engine running!". The most important thing is to find these samurai. And to constantly check whether a new samurai has not broken away from any unit. You make a note of him. And when there are a few free lazybones and a few experienced fighters without a leader, you take this young samurai, give him a shamil unit, and send them out on a mission. At first, on safe missions, and gradually you increase the degree of inadequacy. You give a person a handful of stress. And if he copes, then tadaaaaam. You have a new samurai. Yuz Him Well.
You also get platoon leaders from time to time. And then the question arises: what to do with them? If he is an experienced fighter (but usually they are babes and sucklings), then he can be made an uber-samurai. Throwing candidates for samurai into his charge. To see what they will eventually become. You train the babes and sucklings yourself and eventually make a shogun out of him. The shogun sits in his position and learns from the samurai how to fight, and performs the tasks you assign him. He is a combat manager. If you run out of samurai, your shoguns become samurai.
As soon as all your shoguns and samurai are knocked out, you can't do anything. The lazybones are running away, the experienced fighters are waiting for commands and a samurai. So your main task is to find and teach the samurai. And having a few shoguns won't hurt either. To have someone to delegate administrative functions to, and to be able to sleep for at least 6 hours from time to time, not 4 as usual.
And sooner or later, when the shit hits the fan, you get up, shake yourself off, and go do the work of your samurai.
Then your feudal commander begins to look to see if the future company commander has broken away somewhere.
P.S.: the level of disbelief that I will get into a fight - I pulled the battery out of the head-up display sight.
