Re: How do I use ammo trucks?
As I've mentioned elsewhere, I worked up a proper staff table for a Recce Regiment. I even included the Admin troop which was 15cwt and 3 tonner trucks along with a Signals troop which was 3 15cwt trucks and 3 jeeps. I'm only slighty annoyed that I can't find single place motorcylces for the Don Rs :-).
When I realized there were Ammo trucks and crates, the TO&E was modified a second time part way through a game trying to figure out correnct arrangements. This time with the Squadron HQ of 1 Jeep, 1 LRC (Humber Ironsides MK III) 6 15cwt trucks and 5 3 tonners. Some of those are stores, some are ammo. The stores trucks and HQ unit are set up in the rear (town or field under cover) and the 2nd HQ element (the LRC is the OC's rover) stays there. I can take a jeep and lead the 2 or three ammo trucks to go and resupply a Recce Troop which will pull back from the probing and resupply them I think. (I haven't had time to put this to the test)
Suffice to say, on a BIG map, your support elements aren't going to be too far away. You DO need to escort them. Even dispatch riders, when things were dicey with germans still about, got an escort by the Division's Armoured Cars. Once you have contact with the enemy, your armoured cars should be used for rear area security and escorting of your supply columns forwards to resupply points for your units that are on the front lines. If you make the ammo smaller, in the form of ammo cannisters, I would think you can drop them off the bigger trucks, send the infantry's transport back to collection points and get that.
If you're going to be realisitc, you need to account for the need for Beans and Bullets, at least once a day.
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