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Old December 8th, 2009, 06:46 AM
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Default Re: North Korea errors report

Here is a fix for all the remaining non vehicular north korean units which have not been covered in the previous posts. Most proposed changes are about matching on map and off map artillery units availabilit dates. No formations should be disturbed by these modifications (no deletion of template units etc.).
Next post will deal with organizational issues.

Unit 77: 82mm Mortar Sec
An additional mortar shuld be added. North Korea mortar batteries are composed by either nine 82mm mortars or six 120mm ones. Having three mortars in this unit would fix the problem without changing formation.

Unit 90: 76mm ZiS-3 FG
Final availability date should be extended to 12/1966 to match units 171-172

Unit 169 76mm ZiS3 Sec
It could be deleted as redundant.

Unit 171 and 172 76mm ZiS3 Sec and 76mm ZiS3 Sec +
Their number of guns should be reduced from three to two. They were used in a “four guns per battery and twelve guns per battalion“ organization.

Unit 91 122mm M30 FG
Final availability date should be extended to 12/1979 to match its off board counterpart unit 173

Unit 173 122mm M30 Sec
The number of guns should be reduced from three to two. They were used in a “four guns per battery and twelve guns per battalion“ organization.

Unit 95 152mm D-1 FH and unit 176 152mm D1 Sec
Mismatched availability dates
I suggest changing to 2/1948-12/2010 for both.

152mm D20 FH
Initial availability date should be moved back to 1/1966 to match unit 177, its offboard counterpart.

Unit 174 122mm D30 Sec
Initial availability date should moved back to 1/1967 to match unit 92, its on map counterpart.

An off board artillery unit using weapon n. 123 170mm Koksan FG should be added as well.

Unit 301 and Unit 311: Rifle Section
They should be rearmed with weapon n. 4 SKS Carbine in slot 1
AK-47 would not have been available in numbers at such a date; SKS on the other hand were widely exported in that timeframe.

Unit 476: 45mm M1942 ATG
I suggest loadout change to 40 HE 25 AP and 15 Sabot.
This gun was often used against infantry, as it had only very limited effectivines against contemporary armor and its HE shell was rather powerful for a gun of such caliber. Besides no HEAT rounds were available.

There seem to two ATGM sets, identical except for mismatched availability dates. I suggest the following changes to fix the issue

Unit 292: Fagot Team
Final availability date could be extended to 12/2020

Unit 432: Fagot Team
To be deleted: duplicate of unit 292

Unit 433: Susang Po Team
To be reclassed as class 142 Para Inf-AT.
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