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Originally Posted by Soldiercrush
Great tips fellas--i am much appreciative. I am now trying to start a campaign but am getting bogged down into what types of units to buy, how many units to buy, what fires smoke, what is my spear head, how much armor, support armor, artillery and batteries, infantry and what types-spot 1,2,3,4 lmg-smg-mortors-flamers-so much, scouts--mobile-2 man teams or should they be snipers, AT weapons, AA weapons, and engineers. Holy sleepiness from all this reading. I have opened the game like 10 times only to close it again to read more online...
By the way I read 90% of Larry Holts guide--fine info here.
I am now, as described above, bogged down in what my starting core will be. I work in Iraq and have many hours a day to devote to study. I figure within the next few days I will figure out what types of units I want to start with--holy complications. I always kind of considered myself s minor ww2 historian, but I am quickly realizing I don’t know bupkiss in comparison to some of you all. I am glad to be in likes of some of you guys who know, for example, that certain weapons weren’t utilized during the war because the ammo production was halted.
By the way what exactly is FOO?
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if you don't understand an acronym then try google.
Thus site also may be handy:
http://www.militarywords.com/
Typing
FOO into the search box gave a few results, one of which
should be obvious from the context.
FOO =
Forward
Observation
Officer
MOP = Mortar Observation Party
NGO = Naval Gunfire Observer
AOP = Air Observation Party ("Tentacle" in UK use in WW2)
Back then it was the radio you carried (they were large) generally that defined what artillery net you were observing for. (My high school cadet force back in the 70s still had a 2 man WW2 platoon radio pack with maybe a mile range - one guy had the backpack radio, the other the backpack battery, joined together by a cable like Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee).
Nowadays armies use Fire Support Teams (FIST) which are netted into all support fire providers. SP Observers are FIST even in 1930
- they can call all fire support assets.
Cheers
Andy