On datapad, Imperial Army Special Mission units follow the same squad/platoon/company organization. Officially, a platoon is two sharpshooter, one engineer and one heavy weapons platoon, with a company made of three platoons an augmented platoon of army scouts. While this is the most common ways of doing things, many of the Special Missions groups in service very from these figures.
This is the level at which Special Missions groups are the most varied. The heavy weapons and/or (very rarely) engineer squad may be replaced with another sharpshooter, heavy weapons, or engineer squad, or a scout lance. Any of these may be added if the platoon is augmented, along with the occasional armour or artillery section for heavy firepower.
In the field, unaugmented platoons are foten broken into three equal sized units, consisting of either a heavy weapon or engineer detail and sharpshooters.
At the company level, the variations are less common, but more effective. For example, during counter-insurgency operations, the scouts are sometimes replaced with an armour platoon (usually with light vehicles), or all squads have repulsor craft attached directly to them, or similiar mobility/firepower "solutions". These are often augmented companies that contain the usual platoon of scouts, or the scout platoon may actually have had one of it's lances replaced with light tanks. Other options include repulsorlift infantry for rapid firepower (these are often heavy weapons repulsor platoons) or artillery platoons for ultralong range firepower.
In the field, it is not all that uncommon to find the scouts of an unaugmented platoon split, with a lance attached to the command section, and a lance attached to each platoon for rapid recon and fire-support.
If the company has had the chance to be augmented, according to the book it is done with a 50/50 mix of repulsor infantry and special missions platoons. Apparently, Special Missions personnel never looked at that chart too closely. Any of those units that are subbed in for the scouts have and do appear in re-enforced Special Missions companies.
It should be noted that there are at MOST twenty droids attached to the company command section, and that all Special Mission company command staffs are equipped with repulsorlift vehicles (often the HMR-V, with the heavy version in demand).
At this level, at least on datapad, it is extremely unusual for there to be an aberration from the norm. When they occur, it is usually in the form of augmentation by less-than-company strength units (such as an armour platoon), or they are cross attached from other branches of the military (such as a flight of shuttles with thier Navy crews). The most common form of augmentation is in the "security" platoon is often augmented to the maximum the commander can get away with.
While there are more droids at this level, they are not often carried in the field, being more useful for down-times in the garrison. The most obvious exceptions to this "rule" are the medical and armour droids, although the usual mix of models is encountered.
Special Mission Battalions are often an independent unit, commanded directly from the Moff or Grand Moff's office, or cross attached at the Corp-level to a more conventional chain of command Miscellanoius notes about Special Missions units.
-SM units are in the same priority as Stormtroopers and COMPForce for things like medivac, firesupport and equipment.
-Commanding a Special Mission Company is practically a requirement to get a Corp command. Not a Garrison Base command mind you- those boys are often soft of flesh and mind, being more concerned with local matters and thier appearance. I mean the blaster-bolt-pissing, Rebel-eating, fire-breathers who are famous for thier "planetary re-education programs".
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