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Infantry Squad:
- 1 Corporal: SMG
- 8 privates: 1 LMG, 1 SMG, 6 rifles
- Total: 9 men, 2 SMGs, 1 LMG, 6 rifles
Infantry Platoon:
- 4 rifle squads: 9 men each
- 1 command squad: 1 lieutenant (SMG), 1 sergeant (carbine), 2 runners (2 carbines)
- Total: 40 men, 4 LMGs, 9 SMGs
Infantry Company:
- 1 company commander: pistol
- 4 rifle platoons: 40 men
- 1 command squad: 4 messengers (4 carbines), gas protection section (4 men, 4 rifles), antitank squad (10 men, 4 AT rifles/satchel charges, 1 horse). 18 men total.
- Total: 179 men
Infantry Battalion:
- 4 infantry companies: 179 men each
- 1 machinegun platoon: 12xHMGs, 66 men
- 1 Cazadores platoon: 40 men
- 1 mortar platoon: 57 men and 4x81mm mortars
- 1 battalion HQ: 6 men
- 1 battalion commander
- Total: 886 men, 4 mortars, 12 HMGs
Infantry Regiment:
- 1 Regimental Commander
- 1 Regimental HQ: 12 men (Command Office and Supplies Office)
- 1 Supplies Company: 169 men (includes Supplies Platoon, Signal Platoon, Engineer Platoon, and Field Kitchen)
- 4 Infantry Battalions: 886 men
- 1 Mortar Company: 83 men, 4x81mm mortars
- 1 Regimental Column
- Total: 3,809 men + regimental column
Infantry Division (Army of ___):
- 1 Division Commander
- 1 Division HQ: 24 men
- 3-4 Infantry Regiments: 3,809 men each
- 1 Light Detachment: 1 Cazadores company (179 men), 1 cavalry company (179 men), 1 MG platoon (66 men)
- 1 Field Artillery Regiment: 2,002 men, 72 guns, 1 regimental column
- 1 AT Gun Battery: 8 AT guns, 114 men
- 1 AAMG Platoon: 66 men, 12 AAMGs
- 1 AA Gun Platoon: 66 men, 3 75mm AA guns
- 1 Supplies Company: 169 men
- 2 Engineer Companies: 247 men each
- 2 Signal Companies: 247 men each
- 2 Field Hospitals: 150 men each
- Total: 15,647 to 19,456 men (if four infantry regiments assigned)
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Cavalry Squad:
- 1 Corporal: SMG
- 8 privates: 1 LMG, 1 SMG, 6 rifles
- Total: 9 men, 2 SMGs, 1 LMG, 6 rifles
Cavalry Troop:
- 4 rifle squads: 9 men each
- 1 command squad: 1 lieutenant (SMG), 1 sergeant (carbine), 2 runners (2 carbines)
- Total: 40 men, 4 LMGs, 9 SMGs
Cavalry Squadron:
- 1 company commander: pistol
- 4 cavalry troops: 40 men
- 1 command squad: 4 messengers (4 carbines), gas protection section (4 men, 4 rifles), antitank squad (10 men, 4 AT rifles/satchel charges, 1 horse). 18 men total.
- Total: 179 men
Tank Squadron:
- 1 Command Tank (T-26): 3 men
- 3 Tank Platoons: 5 tanks each, 15 men
- 1 Command Squad: 9 men, 1 armored car, 3 motorcycles, 1 automobile
- 1 Supplies Platoon: 8 trucks, 32 men
- 1 Engineer Squad: 9 men
- 1 Repairmen Squad: 9 men each, 2 Repair trucks each
- Total: 1 command tank, 15 regular tanks, 1 armored car, 3 motorcycles, 1 car, 4 repair trucks, 53 men
Cavalry Battalion:
- 3 cavalry squadrons: 179 men each
- 2 tank squadrons: 53 men, 16 tanks each
- 1 machinegun platoon: 12xHMGs, 66 men
- 1 battalion HQ: 6 men
- 1 battalion commander
- Total: 716 men, 32 tanks, 12 HMGs
Cavalry Regiment:
- 1 Regimental Commander
- 1 Regimental HQ: 12 men (Command Office and Supplies Office)
- 4 Cavalry Battalions: 716 men, 32 tanks
- 1 Supplies Company: 169 men (includes Supplies Platoon, Signal Platoon, Engineer Platoon, and Field Kitchen)
- 1 Mortar Company: 83 men, 4x81mm mortars
- 1 Regimental Column
- Total: 3,129 men, 64 tanks + regimental column
Cavalry Division:
- 1 Division Commander
- 1 Division HQ: 24 men
- 3 cavalry Regiments: 3,129 men, 64 tanks
- 1 Light Detachment: 1 Cazadores company (179 men), 1 cavalry company (179 men), 1 MG platoon (66 men)
- 1 Field Artillery Regiment: 2,002 men, 72 guns, 1 regimental column
- 1 AT Gun Battery: 8 AT guns, 114 men
- 1 AAMG Platoon: 66 men, 12 AAMGs
- 1 AA Gun Platoon: 66 men, 3 75mm AA guns
- 1 Supplies Company: 169 men
- 2 Engineer Companies: 247 men each
- 2 Signal Companies: 247 men each
- 2 Field Hospitals: 150 men each
- Total: 13,541 men, 192 tanks
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Gun Section:
- 1 gun and crew: 8 men or more, depending upon model
Field Battery:
- 8 field guns between 75mm and 125mm: 8 crew each
- 1 Battery HQ: 25 men
- 2 tractor/truck sections: 8 tractors, 8 trucks, 16 men
- 1 Spotting Section: 9 men
- Total: 114 men, 8 guns
Mountain Battery:
- 8 mountain guns between 75mm and 105mm: 8 crew each
- 1 Battery HQ: 25 men
- 2 transport sections: mules, llamas, horses, as appropriate, 36 men
- 1 Spotting Section: 9 men
- Total: 134 men, 8 guns
Heavy Battery:
- 8 field guns larger than 125mm: 12 crew each
- 1 Battery HQ: 25 men
- 3 tractor/truck sections: 8 tractors, 16 trucks, 24 men
- 1 Spotting Section: 9 men
- Total: 154 men, 8 guns
Field Artillery Battalion:
- 2 Field Batteries: 114 men, 8 guns each
- 1 Heavy Battery: 154 men, 8 guns
- 1 Supplies Company: 169 men
- 1 Battalion HQ/Communications: 40 men
- Total: 591 men, 24 guns
Mountain Artillery Battalion:
- 3 Mountain Batteries: 134 men, 8 guns each
- 1 Supplies Company: 169 men
- 1 Battalion HQ/Communications: 40 men
- Total: 611 men, 24 guns
Artillery Regiment:
- 2 Field Artillery Battalions: 591 men, 24 guns each
- 1 Mountain Artillery Battalion: 611 men, 24 guns
- 1 Supplies Company: 169 men
- 1 Regimental HQ/Communications: 40 men
- 1 Regimental column
- Total: 2,002 men, 72 guns, regimental column
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The Cazadores de Montaña (Mountain Huntsmen) are specialist light infantry serving as scouts and skirmishing troops.
Cazadores Platoon:
- 4 Cazadores squads: 9 men each
- 2 messengers
- 1 Lieutenant, 1 sergeant
- Total: 40 men
Cazadores Company:
- 1 company commander: pistol
- 4 rifle platoons: 40 men
- 1 command squad: 4 messengers (4 carbines), gas protection section (4 men, 4 rifles), antitank squad (10 men, 4 AT rifles/satchel charges, 1 horse). 18 men total.
- Total: 179 men
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
Hmmmm. The infantry might be a little bit lightly equipped on the mortar front: in this period it's fairly common for there to be light mortars (45-60mm) at either platoon or company level.
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Originally posted by Hrolf HakonsonThe Cazadores platoon per battalion is an interesting idea.
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
On the artillery, do you mean guns as in long range, high velocity weapons, or guns as in howitzers, shorter ranged, higher angle of fire, usually more effective against infantry per round weapons?
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
Are the HMGs sustained fire rifle caliber weapons, like the MGs of the Great War? Or something else?
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
The Finns were pretty lightly equipped at least until the later part of that war. Now, a possible alternative to light mortars are rifle grenades, they're not as accurate but they're less expensive.
A single 81mm mortar probably isn't really worth it at the company level, a smaller mortar in greater numbers is probably what you'd want. Either a mortar team with 2-3 light mortars at company level, or a single light mortar in each platoon.
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
I figured you were referring to howitzers, and given Chile's rather vertical terrain guns would be less useful than usual (lots of blind spaces behind the hills, for instance).
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
I'm not sure about the wisdom of the HMG platoon being equipped with .50s exclusively, given that you've got AT squads at company level. It's a great weapon against soft vehicles and protected targets, but against infantry it's not the best choice. I'd be more inclined, assuming you're going to be using a .50", to have a mixed platoon, with around 4 .50s and 8 water-cooled rifle-caliber machineguns.
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
The Finns were pretty lightly equipped at least until the later part of that war. Now, a possible alternative to light mortars are rifle grenades, they're not as accurate but they're less expensive.
A single 81mm mortar probably isn't really worth it at the company level, a smaller mortar in greater numbers is probably what you'd want. Either a mortar team with 2-3 light mortars at company level, or a single light mortar in each platoon.
I already see rifle-grenades being worked into the infantry - one rifle grenadier per squad, perhaps, or at the very least one or two per platoon. How many men do you think it would take to keep a 3x50mm mortar squad supplied and firing - twelve men? Fifteen?
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
I figured you were referring to howitzers, and given Chile's rather vertical terrain guns would be less useful than usual (lots of blind spaces behind the hills, for instance).
That was my thinking as well, and also a large part of my reasoning for putting a mountain gun battalion in each division. I'm guessing the "heavy batteries" would be the long-range guns while the 75mm and 105mm guns are predominantly howitzers.
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
I'm not sure about the wisdom of the HMG platoon being equipped with .50s exclusively, given that you've got AT squads at company level. It's a great weapon against soft vehicles and protected targets, but against infantry it's not the best choice. I'd be more inclined, assuming you're going to be using a .50", to have a mixed platoon, with around 4 .50s and 8 water-cooled rifle-caliber machineguns.
That might work, perhaps. I'll have to look around for some decent older MGs to assign in this spot - perhaps some sort of license-built M1917 or M1919?
This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Hrolf Hakonson" (Jan 5th 2009, 12:51am)
This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Brockpaine" (Jan 5th 2009, 1:23am)
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