akdreemer
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Joined: 10/3/2004 From: Anchorage, Alaska Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: el cid again A number of other divisions began the war square (I think) - but reformed before they became operational. I have a giant book on the US Army Order of Battle - and it gives details for each - including a quite complex liniage. The problem is not so much data as the time to look it up case by case - and I was told the US units had been done "more than once" for CHS. And I do see some attempt at accuracy: a US Army RCT was given 24 mortars - which is right - only they were all 81mm - because no 60mm device was available. IRL 18 were not 81s. The US Army was in transition over to triangular from its historical square form. Each Infantry Bn has 6-81mm Mortars, Each Infantry Company has 3 60mm Mortars. A three battalion regiment would have 18-81mm, 27-60mm mortars. Regimental Combat Teams were not independent units, all were formed from parent Division with a slice of Divisional assets (usually one BN of 105mm, 1 troop of Recon, 1 company of Combat Engineers). The 155's BN's were never broken down into batteries, as this was the Division wide general support artillery, therefor there should not be any 155mm in the RCT's. All Independent Regiments, those not affiliated with Divisions, were not RCT's, just standard three BN regiments. In this the stock game is in error in making all US infantry regiments that are independent RCT's. If one wants to play with RCT's in the game, then one needs to divide a Division into three units.
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