A number of units have an ATGM on the vehicle which can be fired mounted or dismounted and carried by an infantry team. While many units can do this I suggest that it is restricted to those units who did this as doctrine, for example German Marders and Canadian M150 TOWs. I would suggest that the following rule for Seven Days to the River Rhine be used to reflect this. Dismount ATGM
The ATGM may be dismounted as if it were embarked, becoming the equivalent type of support stand and the carrier remains the same but does not generate a command point (in other words it becomes an APC with the same statistics but no ATGM attack). To remount the unit acts in the same way as a transport embarking infantry. If the mounted unit has morale markers these are duplicated on the dismounting team. If a team embarks with morale tokens then the higher of the two is used for the recombined unit.
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I've been thinking a bit about unit strengths and making them variable. It was prompted by a Facebook discussion in a Bolt Action group that discussed the best strength to make a British unit. A bit of reading showed that the official strength was 10 but that this allowed for detachments, leave, courses, injuries, etc. The battle strength was 8 and if the numbers available were above this any excess was pulled together as a reserve at platoon or company level.
Example: An early war British section has a base strength of 5 in the rules and can have 5 more added so we start with a strength of 10 (100pts). we add in a Bren at 20pts and anti tank grenades (2pts x 10 = 20pts). Total points = 140. We then roll for casualties, etc. We decide to make the unit regular and roll as follows: NCO: 4 Bren: 9 Rifles 3, 6, 7, 1, 9, 10, 3, 7 As a result we are down a the Bren and two riflemen. We can however try and replace the Bren gunner and roll a 7. As a result we can remove a rifleman instead of a Bren. Final section strength is: NCO Bren gun and loader 4 riflemen I will be looking at vehicles later as they will need costing slightly differently. Please let me know your thoughts. |
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