halftracks/trucks

[Griefbringer]

Originally Posted by valo2000

i only buy trucks to be somewhat historically accurate because i think there were more trucks then ht in any army.

True, but they were often used in a different fashion. And not typically mixed up with each other.

Thus, if playing a game where you are commanding roughly a battalion sized force (as typically in SP), then you could feasibly field a force that is all mounted on halftracks. Mechanised infantry battalions tended to have all of their combat elements mounted on halftracks, to ensure everyone had sufficient cross-country mobility.

Where the truck reigned supreme was on the rear echelon troops, where it would used to shuttle around huge loads of men and material. These operations are not usually well displayed on a typical SP game (except for an odd ammo truck showing up as reinforcements), though they could form a basis for a specific scenario - say, partisans ambushing a truck-mounted supply column.

Griefbringer

[PanzerBob]

Good day,

I have found some players seem to get a wrapped up in whether a unit is killed or not.

In Mobile Warfare suppression of men can be just as useful as kills, especially if the units are not sitting on the objectives. Even in Armies with good training and morale etc, units that break down beyond certain suppression tend not to recover quick enough to be of any bother, they are too busy retreating/routing. Killing off squads of men slows down your mobile force.

All this being said in the PTO vs the Japanese Army this rule of thumb doesn't work near as well.

Bob out