Modeling Polish 10th Motorized Brigade

[Brian61]

Originally Posted by DRG

40 man platoons, 10 men per section/squad.

Would that apply to all motorized units you think or just that one ?

Don

All. At least that's the short answer The Warsaw motorized brigade was, on paper at least, a clone of the 10th motorized brigade. As far as I'm aware, those were the only two motorized Polish formations in 1939.

I'd like to point out that, along with a 10 man rifle/BAR/grenade squad unit, a two wz30 HMG unit is needed as well. Each motorized rifle squadron had two HMGs (not three), the three HMG units currently in the OOB were (at least in the motorized brigades) part of each regiment's HMG squadron.

There was another type of motorized unit, the motorized recon squadrons. Those were, at the platoon level, basically (using SP OOB terms) a dismounted calvary troop with the addition of vehicles. There was a bit more variety amongst the recon units but it boils down to whether each team had its own vehicle or the entire troop got sandwiched into one truck.

Thanks,
Brian

PS: Yea, the numbers finally add up! I can sleep peacefully now