Equipment and casualties in NATO

[Waaarg]

Is it normal in NATO forces to lose binoculars and radios when the squad leader is knocked out? I assume that neither of these are recoverable via buddy aid, and my guess is that no one else is equipped with them.

I noticed this only because a Canadian squad wasn't reinforced, and those two items were missing.

I tested US forces, and the squad didn't lose access to them (assume whoever took command already possessed them) when SL went down.

[akd]

I think the radio is gone because it was never there. A bunch of NATO units are missing radios at the section level, and I think a few at platoon level.

[Waaarg]

I thought this initially, but b/c of the Binocs being missing too, and the other 3 units in the platoon who had SL all had both Binocs and radios I don't think this is because of the bugs mentioned (the ones I saw, I didn't read every post).

This was in the Canadian campaign, and none of the infantry were mounted. The other platoon on this mission, all were at full strength, and all equipment was present.

[Waaarg]

Ah I misread what you said, the mounting/dismounting bug in my thoughts at the time.

What about binocs though? I know some units are missing them, but haven't seem anything on if that was intentional or not. I haven't seen anything on units losing them (or they are present on only the SL).

[finalcut]

Budget cuts in the Military,just like real World.Battlefront did this on purpose to model the political aspects of the Nations involved in the War. Each Brigade is only issued one set of Binoculars and 2 radios from now on to save money for entitlement programs.