Claus
Following on from yesterday's topic on SG2 -> WW2 conversions, I
ventured into the loft and dug out some of my reference books (as well
as a lot of other stuff I'd forgotten about, like half-a-dozen unmade FT
ships and a mint-condition copy of the original Full Thrust rules).
I came up with the following for mortar ToEs in various nations:
German Infantry Battalion:
3 50mm mortars in each rifle company (replaced by 2 half-track mounted
80mm in PzGren units)
6 80mm mortars in each battalion (half-track mounted in PzGren units)
Panzer Grenadier battalions also had 2 75mm infantry guns
Russian Rifle Battalion: 3 50mm mortars in each rifle company
4-6 82mm mortars in each battalion
US Infantry Battalion: 3 60mm mortars in each rifle company 6 81mm mortars in
each battalion Armoured Infantry battalions had 3 81mm mortars in M3 half
tracks (M21) and 3 M7 priests
In the US Armored infantry battalion, each rifle platoon contained a mortar
squad with a single 60MM mortar, and a light machine gun squad with two light
machine guns. In the standard US infantry battalion, a weapons platoon
contained a mortar section with 3 squads, each with a 60MM mortar, and a
machinegun section with two squads each with a light machine gun, although it
appears that the machine guns were habitually attached to the rifle platoons,
and veteran units usually managed to scrounge a third machine gun somewhere.
By 1944 the German infantry company usually had two short 8cm mortars I I
believe the proper designation was kurze 8cm mittlere Granatenwerfer 43)in
lieu of the 50MM, and four 120MM mortars in the battalion heavy weapons
company. Incidently, you have to take the whole TOE thing with a grain of
salt. In the Battle of the Bulge, the US 2nd Infantry Division had 50% more
automatic weapons (BARs and various types of machine guns) in the ranks than
it was aut! ho! rized by TOE. Soldiers frequently take steps to correct the
deficiencies they perceive in their equipment authorizations.
> gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu wrote:
Following on from yesterday's topic on SG2 -> WW2 conversions, I
ventured into the loft and dug out some of my reference books (as well
as a lot of other stuff I'd forgotten about, like half-a-dozen unmade FT
ships and a mint-condition copy of the original Full Thrust rules).
I came up with the following for mortar ToEs in various nations:
German Infantry Battalion:
3 50mm mortars in each rifle company (replaced by 2 half-track mounted
80mm in PzGren units)
6 80mm mortars in each battalion (half-track mounted in PzGren units)
Panzer Grenadier battalions also had 2 75mm infantry guns
Russian Rifle Battalion: 3 50mm mortars in each rifle company
4-6 82mm mortars in each battalion
US Infantry Battalion: 3 60mm mortars in each rifle company 6 81mm mortars in
each battalion Armoured Infantry battalions had 3 81mm mortars in M3 half
tracks (M21) and 3 M7 priests