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Blackhorse -> RE: AE Land and AI Issues (8/1/2009 9:59:13 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Chad Harrison
Thanks for the replies Andy and Jeff. So they are RCT's then correct?
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Barb:
Nope.. RCT is regimental combat team - self sufficient combat unit with AT, AA, ART, Mortars, recon, engineers, tanks, medical station... obtained from higher echelon (you may say division splitted in three)
Sep means separate regiment - it has only things that are on standard regimental TOE - so no Art bn, no eng co, no rec plt, no tank co, no AA co, ... from division
Barb is correct. There are *no* Regimental Combat Teams in AE. RCT's were not TO&E organizations -- they were infantry regiments reinforced with other units for shorter or longer periods of time.
There are two types of US Army infantry regiments in-game, and two ways you can create your own de facto RCTs.
1) The division regiment. Each US Infantry Division has 3 intrinsict regiments. When you divide a division -- or when the division arrives, divided into its 3 regiments -- each regiment contains a 1/3 "slice" of the divisions AAA, engineers, artillery and other support. These divisional regiments are effectively Regimental Combat Teams.
2) The independent, non-divisional "Separate" Regiment. These regiments are "lighter" than their divisional counterparts, because they don't have a "division slice" of support. Assign Coastal Artillery (Anti-Air) Regiments, artillery battalions and engineer battalions to the same base, and you will have effectively created a RCT the same way the US did it in WWII. In AE, you have available as separate units all the AAA, engineer, and tank units that historically served in the Pacific.
Some of the separate regiments -- mostly those that served in the Aleutians -- will "grow" a tank company in mid-1942. These were Marmon-Harrington light tanks sold to the Netherlands, but the DEI fell before they could be delivered. About 100 tanks were sent to Alaska, another 100 were used for training.
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