British and German Platoons for Chain of Command

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Those are fabulous

[Ithoriel]

Those are great! Particularly like the StuG

[Noktu]

Really like these! Looking forward to see some more of your recent work!

[Techno]

Cracking work ! 

Cheers - Phil

[Orcs]

Curiously, I know firearms designers and trainers who despise the MG42 and think it worse than useless! Too heavy, too hungry, too many barrel changes. Fine in a fixed position - rubbish when moving forward.

The ammo and barrel changes, was one of the reasons D-Day was not the disaster they had feared.  The troops in the bunkers and Trenches could not get resupplied with ammo and barrels due to the artillery fire, causing asevee drop in the rate of fire.

[steve_holmes_11]

The ammo and barrel changes, was one of the reasons D-Day was not the disaster they had feared.  The troops in the bunkers and Trenches could not get resupplied with ammo and barrels due to the artillery fire, causing asevee drop in the rate of fire.

Not a lot of people know that (I didn't).

Jolly handy that our lads hadn't forgotten a few old tricks like the 1917 box barrage.

[Ithoriel]

One of my "honorary uncles" who rose to be a major in WW2 and served as, among other things, liaison officer with the Gurkhas used to say that, if you had the choice, take an MG42 in defence and a Bren in attack.

[hammurabi70]

Excellent look: do you have a bit of the 1-2-3 basing going on there too?

There seems to have been no clarification on this?  Would anyone care to do so?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

One of my "honorary uncles" who rose to be a major in WW2 and served as, among other things, liaison officer with the Gurkhas used to say that, if you had the choice, take an MG42 in defence and a Bren in attack.

If you have to carry it take a Bren - carried an L4 and GPMG - L4 is lighter and you dont have a belt to trip over or snag in the grass.

[fred.]

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Quote from: steve_holmes_11 on 29-08-2018, 21:19:55
Excellent look: do you have a bit of the 1-2-3 basing going on there too?

There seems to have been no clarification on this?  Would anyone care to do so?

I would think it refers to the basing concept from Mikel Leck, written up in Pikeman's Lament, but quite likely in use before then. That gives a mix of single and multi-basing to make troops a bit easier to move in skirmish / small unit games. Basically for 6 figures, you base them on 3 bases, 1 with 1 figure, 1 with 2 figures and 1 with 3 figures. So you have fewer bases to move, but can still distribute your figures around in a skirmish formation, and can remove different numbers of casualties easily. 

[xccam]

Yeah it's pretty much just for casualty removal.

Thank you.