George

The best Book is:  Die Anstriche und Taarnanstriche der Kriegsmarine by Dieter Jung and others.  There you find the corresponding German Marine names from the list linked by you and heaps of originally photos.  Captions are in English too.

I met the authours often, they had been the best experts in Germany. Some are dead now, shows how old I…[Read more]

Don’t apologise. That is the purpose of this forum.

In your situation, yes the victorious unit can support the following combat.

This is why you choose the order that the combats are resolved. What a victorious unit does is entirely up to you. The only exception would be certain Special rules, for example Fanatics, who would have to follow up o…[Read more]

Not a lot, really. Depending on who charged who, they could have been moved to support in combat if it was the red unit that charged. Now, they’ll just have to sit and wait. Once the combat ends, they are in a position to shoot at the enemy.

its 3″ in length

The German 1944 Kraftfahr Zug / Platoon 30 ton had 10 Lorries with 10 Drivers and no co  Driver.  Zugführer in light car with a Driver and a Kradmelder with a motorbike.

For these 10 lorries and staff 2 LMG are assigned.  The Zugführer had a pistol, all others a K 98. The MG had no special fixing point on the 3 ton Lorry. Under air attack the…[Read more]

No. A unit is a unit. Size doesn’t matter where break point is concerned.

to be fair, most tiny and a lot of small units are skirmishers anyway and as such don’t count towards the break point!

The notes at the top of each army list States the parameters.

I see. Thank you.

Would be doing ECWs.

So you are playing Small = frontage of half a large.

I was think Small should be half a regular. Otherwise if  two smalls contact a regular on the same flank, wouldn’t they end up looking a bit odd? Or does it not matter?

Taking it to silly extremes, if you had a great big line of regular size units and a long line of small units, then these…[Read more]

They had rules. But often ignored them. By intent, more often from Need.

Lucien Rousselot is a must and if you take the time to read it in deep it will help a lot. How it should have been. 😉

At Waterloo a lot of very old stuff was still / again  worn. The battlefield finds show old styles of Buttons. In line and even guard units there was a…[Read more]

About the Soviet infanty (not just SMG) companies….lets be honest with something like 8 rifle battalion org changes (including 3 guard changes) between April 41 and  May 45  its no wonder people get confused as to when and how they where formed :p

I mean it reads like some units could well have ‘skipped’ an org change because it happened so f…[Read more]

Marder III is a small designation problem. The first prototype of Panzerjäger 38″ (Sd. Kfz. 139) with 7,62 cm . Only 27 Feb. 1944 it became Marder III by order of Hitler. Until October 42   344 are made. 176 of them on 38 G base.

In November 42 building was changed to the “true”  Marder III with German 7,5 cm. In that month the base was cha…[Read more]

Yeah it was one of the changes to the red army after the winter war with Finland in 39/40 (the formation of SMG equipped companies…. cant remember if they were their own battalions or just a company within the normal battalion structure… its also where the first tank rider units came from.. but thats another topic :p)

The soviet book does…[Read more]

Right. Having now seen the diagram, the light cavalry would require a two move order to charge the Macedonian flank. Once it has charged, everything I said earlier happens.

Regarding supporting units – The flank rule that you have asked about is something that you have misunderstood. When the rule talks about how many supports can be on each…[Read more]

Yes Al, thanks , some very useful pointers there.

I should have added a diagram to better illustrate the situation.

[Persian Cav]                          [Macedonians]

[Persian Infantry] [Persian Infantry] [Persian Infantry]

So the Macedonians and Persian Infantry are all already engaged. 2 Persian Inf are in support

Next turn the Pers…[Read more]