Scout_42MDP Posted December 24, 2002 Share Posted December 24, 2002 What would be a realistic # of supply points to be carried for a US army armor/mech inf battalion? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Gilbert Posted December 31, 2002 Share Posted December 31, 2002 Damn good question ... :confused: Hopefully, someone has already looked into this. Otherwise, my curiousity is piqued and I will spend this coming weekend playing around with this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MajorH TacOps Developer Posted December 31, 2002 Share Posted December 31, 2002 Please let us know your thoughts. I added that feature for the Armor School in a bit of a hurry and intentionaly in a way that did not require me to do any analysis on what values were appropriate for the user to plug in. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coyote Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 I guess part of the answer depends on what one supply point represent. It seems to be around a pound,+/- a little fudge factor. Almost 20 years ago (shudder!), I was a battalion S-4. I had enough lift assest (trucks, etc) to move about 50 tons of bulk material in good weather. Take out some capacity to cover food, water, tents, duffle bags, chemical suits, barbed wire, empty sandbags, POL, medical supplies, spare parts (you get the idea) and you could probably expect to have at most 1/2 of that capacity. Delete a few trucks for maintenance problems plus a few more that are way back in the division rear picking up a load and you are down to 1/4 or 12.5 tons. That would work out to about 25,000 points if my initial assumption is correct. I did notice that the default when adding a supply point unit is 5000 points which would be about 2.5 tons. Can any one provide the current vehicle information for the Support Platoon in a heavy battalion? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hub Posted January 1, 2003 Share Posted January 1, 2003 How would this information be utilised in the context of a game, as right now resupply only pertains to ammuniton? Is it to make the logistics available on map, so that it can be attacked and interdicted? 155mm HE = 51.5 points per round 105mm HE = 26.2 points per round 122mm HE = 26.2 points per round 152mm HE = 51.5 points per round 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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