Error in Abn mtr unit?

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Originally Posted by Suhiir

Depends who's military you're talking about with regard to transporting ammo. Yes, most western militaries are highly motorized, much of the rest of the world is not.

Being a Jarhead we tended to rely on our boots not our vehicles for transport and almost everyone carried one of either MG, AT, or mortar ammo in addition to their own.

Correct..the assumption that the gun crew only carries one round each is not correct when the necessary game abstractions are applied. If you want to move your mortars in vehicles you can but we have to consider the crew as a standalone unit and all the equipment/ammo to operate a mortar or MG has to be considered as moved on foot UNLESS you put them in a vehicle.

When added together the weight a MG or mortar team has to move is roughly equal in game abstraction terms......equivalent mortars move slower in MBT than they do in WW2 but in MBT they carry more ammo..it's a trade off....a compromise..... and NO compromise will ever please everyone.

All of these "guidelines" were written nearly 2 decades ago ..and then they "evolved"....yes when all the math is done a HMG and it's ammo is marginally heavier ( but only marginally ) than a standard infantry mortar and all it's ammo ( NOT just one round per man!) but the HMG does move a bit faster in the game.......live with it......ASSUME it is a more difficult/ slower process to move a mortar and it's ammo than it would for an HMG.

Don