Modeling Polish 10th Motorized Brigade

[DRG]

Interesting co-incidence, I just received an email from Michal on an unrelated matter. Hopefully he will start posting here soon

Those section numbers don't match the truck capacities in either photo and those numbers don'd add up . Four sections of 6 men is 24 plus commander, deputy and runner = 27 men so that 29 man figure must include the truck drivers and the deputy or runner must be on the MC and , of course, we do not use "kill me now" Plt HQ sections but rather, blend them into the squads


Don

[Brian61]

Also bear in mind that the Warsaw Motorized Brigade was not fully formed at the outbreak of hostilities, it was intended to be a copy of the 10th Motorized Brigade (the 10th was the prototype). It may be the numbers given are for the actual fielded numbers of the Warsaw Brigade but not the intended 'full-strength' numbers initially fielded by the 10th Brigade.

It does go to shed further light on the subject, but I'm still concerned that the 'top-down' numbers don't match up. I should probably email Dr. Niehorster with a summary of this thread to see if we can get a professional opinion.

Thanks,
Brian

[TonyE]

Originally Posted by DRG

Interesting co-incidence, I just received an email from Michal on an unrelated matter. Hopefully he will start posting here soon

Those section numbers don't match the truck capacities in either photo and those numbers don'd add up . Four sections of 6 men is 24 plus commander, deputy and runner = 27 men so that 29 man figure must include the truck drivers and the deputy or runner must be on the MC and , of course, we do not use "kill me now" Plt HQ sections but rather, blend them into the squads

Don

Don,
I should have mentioned, but it was somewhat late and i forgot, the truck drivers (2) are part of the total (29), they were not intended to fight though. I guess the platoon commander would be in the sidecar, with propably the runner as driver. Don`t worry, i know about the policy of no "Shot me now" units, this is just to show how the OB looked in real life. In SP therms i guess the best way to portray such a platoon would be two groups of 12 men (each with rifles, 2 LMGs and grenades) + an AT-rifle team to round out the numbers

On trucks, while the polish army did not really lack manpower they did lack trucks and the 10th motorised did not get properly outfitted with such until mid-39 (so about two years with sub-requirements). They had to improvise with small towed trailers for the rifle platoon trucks that strained the available truckpark and caused frequent breakdowns. I`ll post a picture of such a little later.