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Originally Posted by DRG
As we have said, over and over and over and over ........making a specific unit the HQ section is not a good idea because a human opponent will find and target them, Sure we could make them all 10 men and they will be the first units killed because a 10 man unit stands out like a sore thumb in a group of 19 man units which is why we avoid doing that and we had worked out compromise in unit / formation construction to allow for that but every year someone comes along and wants us to do it "by the book".
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OK. I didn't know that, but anyway it was only a weak suggestion (I wrote, that "it probably won't be practical").
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Originally Posted by DRG
So you are free to make suggestions but I'm the one who has to make it work and YES, I could re-nationalize those units and have done that in the past but I tend to do that to spread the work over a couple years as re-nationalizing is just a way to delay their inevitable deletion so I will be deleting those units and rebuilding the scenarios.
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It seems, than in case of infantry, the only problem, when the unit was deleted from OOB, is lack of picture (and lack of data on information screen). The unit still moves and shoots. I agree, that such situations should be avoided, but it doesn't affect playing like removal of a vehicle (IIRC the game takes icon, armour and picture from the OOB).
Anyway, I have an idea: some of infantry units in OOB could be replaced with similar Obrona Narodowa (National Defence - territorial army), which should give them pictures. They existed in a few variants and were less uniform, than regular infantry.
Now we have only units 310 and 311 Obrona Naradowa (should be Narodowa) - class Militia and Militia support (with LMG), used in formation 310 Militia Platoon.
Firstly, according to
http://wp39.struktury.net/obrona-nar...-typu-iii.html there should be 16 men only in a squad (in type II and III battalions, other types had 14-15).
Secondly, ON units were created only in mid-37, earlier they were non existing.
Picture 32134 (like of unit 311) should be used for all, including 310 (it has some insurgents rather).
Apart from these two units, armed with Mauser rifles, there should be created units with more popular Berthier rifles.
In a class Militia there could be created:
- Berthier, grenades (radio 2)
- Berthier, #91 VB, grenades (radio 0)
- wz.98 carbine, wz.28 LMG, grenades (radio=1 - there existed some platoons with LMGs in each squad)
- Berthier, wz.28 LMG, grenades (radio=1)
- #112 Lebel, VB, grenades (radio 1) (optional)
In a class Militia Support there could be:
- Berthier, #95 7.92 wz.08 LMG, VB, grenades (radio 2)
Formation 310 Militia Platoon should have three squads only (one Militia support and two Militia). Maybe a better name is "ON Militia Plt"?
There could be also created ON company, but maybe next year...
As for weapon #95 7.92 wz.08 LMG - correct name is "7.92 08/15 LMG" or "7.92 wz08/15LMG".
Its HEK should be at least 5 - now it's 4, while it had a ROF like all other heavy Maxims - and practical ROF of a belt-fed 08/15 was higher, than of magazine LMGs.
On the other hand, I've just read in a newest book on Polish Maxims, that MG-08/15 was rather inaccurate because of its bipod in a centre of gravity, and water spilling in a radiator along with barrel recoil... Now it has accuracy 23, better then Bren (21) and BAR (17)
BTW: weapon 185 wz.1928 LMG should be better named "7.92 wz.28 LMG"
It is one of last suggestions from my side - I'm not going to review all formations
Re: Polish OOB2 corrections/suggestions (v.6)
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