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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
A couple comments on the OOB just posted:
1 - the sharpshooter/sniper squad at company level seems a bit early, and a bit large for such a unit.
2 - the number of mortars at battalion level seems rather large.
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Originally posted by Vukovlad
And the DShKM came in 1946....
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
A couple comments on the OOB just posted:
1 - the sharpshooter/sniper squad at company level seems a bit early, and a bit large for such a unit.
2 - the number of mortars at battalion level seems rather large.
1. It's possible it's a bit too large; I just set a number that seemed realistic to me. Currently though, there are 0 of them; it's mostly just an extra squad attached to the company which has hand-picked Schmidt-Rubins and training in cover, concealment, and marksmanship. As to date - I'm working a bit off Russian tactics, and the Russian Army did train snipers in quantity.
Would it be better if I made the "sniper squad" into a heavy MG squad, and put the scout snipers directly into the squads themselves?
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2. Again, I suppose it's possible. As I've consistently said, Bulgaria had a reputation pre-Great War for it's artillerymen, and I intend to work off of that. Would eight 81mm mortars at the battalion level - rather than 12 - be a better number?
Honestly, an army's OOB isn't something I know much about: I basically wrote it up over the past few days saying "Hm, it'd be nice to have more of this, this, and this." So long as I keep the heavy infantry/artillery-centric approach to the Army, I'm willing to make changes.
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
A couple comments on the OOB just posted:
1 - the sharpshooter/sniper squad at company level seems a bit early, and a bit large for such a unit.
2 - the number of mortars at battalion level seems rather large.
1. It's possible it's a bit too large; I just set a number that seemed realistic to me. Currently though, there are 0 of them; it's mostly just an extra squad attached to the company which has hand-picked Schmidt-Rubins and training in cover, concealment, and marksmanship. As to date - I'm working a bit off Russian tactics, and the Russian Army did train snipers in quantity.
Would it be better if I made the "sniper squad" into a heavy MG squad, and put the scout snipers directly into the squads themselves?
Not necessarily. I would probably back it down from a squad to a team, or attach the squad at battalion rather than company level.
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
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2. Again, I suppose it's possible. As I've consistently said, Bulgaria had a reputation pre-Great War for it's artillerymen, and I intend to work off of that. Would eight 81mm mortars at the battalion level - rather than 12 - be a better number?
Honestly, an army's OOB isn't something I know much about: I basically wrote it up over the past few days saying "Hm, it'd be nice to have more of this, this, and this." So long as I keep the heavy infantry/artillery-centric approach to the Army, I'm willing to make changes.
The issue, from my POV, is that right now you have more heavier mortars in the battalion than you have lighter mortars, it ends up being a top-heavy structure. If you're going to have 12 mortars at battalion, you could get rid of the company level mortars, with the assumption that several mortars will be assigned (in most cases) to support the company. An alternative will be to reduce the number of mortars at battalion level, as you suggested.
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Originally posted by Hrolf Hakonson
Because at this point in WW history, about the only aircooled MMG that's been used to speak of is the MG33, and it was having problems in Lithuania (not necessarily because of the design, but because of sub-standard parts mostly). If Bulgaria's buying large numbers of ZB30s, saving some money and keeping the old reliable water-cooled guns in inventory is not a bad idea. Also, keep in mind that while the MG34, et al, did do good service, so did the Vickers, Maxim, etc. They're really hard to better in a defensive, fixed position role.
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Originally posted by Brockpaine
I have ZB-30s already, so it's no big deal to deploy them. If I buy any new armaments, it's going to be the Steyr-Solothurn S2-200 / 31M for license production, but that's not going to be a 1937 project.
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