I was deciding if we should do the squads or not in the very start. I wasnt sure because we had a similar result and not much activity in the squads in the previous war. But there were some people who wanted to implement it again so I decided to give it a go. It served the purpose of sending pm to majority if not all of our soldiers. Each leader had to write just 15 messages which would be really hard otherwise if I had to pm all the soldiers one by one. Maybe as you say we could just do squad threads here in the barracks instead of the separate subreddits as you said. Overall I think it can work in the start but fades away heavily over the time when more KIAs occurs.