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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