Rustman

First, I'd like to say that this game is awesome, and for the most part, pretty accurate.... I guess the only thing that really raises my eyebrow about it, and I guess it is probably because of software/hardware limitations, is that troop density doesn't change when moving from rural to urban environments. I just finished the Airfield/Special Forces HQ mission, and I had to laugh a little when I cleared the entire Airbase HQ with a single squad. Real world urban combat is incredibly incredibly dense. If I remember right the Airbase HQ is 6 stories tall? Forget the other 2 objectives in that mission; in a real world conventional warfare mindset, that one building would have been, at a minimum, a company mission in of itself. To breach, clear, cordon, and secure the urban area around the Airbase HQ would have easily needed a full infantry battalion. The mission in it's entirety that was given to a single Stryker company would have rightly been a Brigade level operation.

There is no "standard" for extra ammo, per say...at least not Army wide....when I was in Iraq though we loaded every vehicle with as much ammo as it could carry of any type we could get our hands on. My 1114 contained an empty Mk-19 ammo can that we had our engineers bolt to the turret filled with extra grenades and other pyro that the gunner could dig into if we needed it, a few AT-4's strapped to the back of the turret, in the crew compartment we had 6 cans on 7.62mm link (or 5 cans .50 cal API and 1 can .50 cal SLAP, obviously depending on the weapon system), a pyro bag filled with grenades, smoke, flares, etc., and an ammo box filled with spare prefilled M-16 magazines, and in the trunk we had 2 cases of 5.56mm ball, and 1 case of 5.56mm link. Unfortunately we couldn't get rockets for it, but I wanted to toss in a SMAW from the Marine unit we were attached to. That would have been nice. Anyway, yea, assuming that your higher unit can get it, spare ammo isn't really a problem when you have vehicles, whether it's a HMMWV, Styker, Bradley, whatever.