can ammo bearers just chuck their stuff in a ditch?

[altipueri]

And therefore move faster without tiring.

[YankeeDog]

Unfortunately, the only way to get rid of ammo once it's in a unit's possession is to shoot if off.

Definitely something I hope to see changed in the next iteration of the game engine.

[Childress]

I find that lightening the load of ammo bearers, or even heavily laden infantry squads, shows only a minimal gain in stamina. In fact, imo, the load/fatigue ratio could use some ramping up. And why is that tank crews never tire?

[YankeeDog]

IME, the difference in fatigue rate between a lightly laden and a heavily laden team is pretty slight until you get into more extreme movements, such as crawling on SLOW for long distances, running FAST through dense terrain etc. If you're doing stuff like this, the difference becomes more noticeable.

But I've never done extensive tests. There have been times when it's seemed to me that small teams with really heavy ammo loads are a little too able to keep up with their more lightly-laden mates.

Then again, given that there's no way to order an ammo team to "lighten up", perhaps this is a deliberate abstraction.

[Ranger33]

Then again, given that there's no way to order an ammo team to "lighten up", perhaps this is a deliberate abstraction.

I think this hits the nail on the head. In real life they would be able to share that burden with others or stockpile it on the ground somewhere and haul it up as needed. We have to consider that CMBN scenarios tend to play out much, much faster than they did in real life, so there isn't as much opportunity to send guys back and forth with extra ammo.

[altipueri]

In "Those Devils in Baggy Pants" the author recounts an incident where the man carrying the bazooka rockets keeps chucking them in a ditch, but every time he wakes up after a snooze the rockets are right back next to him, having been picked up by one of the other guys.

A great book, especially now there seems to some paras sneaking around in Italy.

[TrailApe]

can ammo bearers just chuck their stuff in a ditch

Ahhh - so we are not talking whacky baccy here I take it - I thought we might have been discussing the problems inherint in the next module (perhaps delayed though?) after our pixeltruppen have passed through Amsterdam.......