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La Warlord ha dato le regole per usare il 168° combat Engineers (USA) che ha combattuto tra il 17 ed il 21 dicembre 1944 nelle Ardenne
Praticamente:
The defenders of Prumerberg were a mixed bag. I represented this, to try out at my club, by using this unofficial list; A 168th Combat Engineers can be made up of one or more reinforced platoons from the following selector:
Note that to reflect the weather conditions air forward observers have been excluded from the list. Two artillery observers, however, reflect the support provided by the 275th Field Artillery. You might, for historical accuracy, also like to think carefully before deploying flamethrowers in your engineer squads!
Winter US Ardennes HQ
Reinforced Platoon
1 Lieutenant – First or Second
2 Infantry squads: Regular Engineers or regular Infantry squads (early/mid-war)
plus:
Headquarters
0-1 Captain or Major
0-1 Medic team
0-2 Forward Observer (Artillery)
Infantry
0-4 Infantry squads: Regular Infantry squads (early/mid-war), Inexperienced Infantry squads, a maximum of one Engineer squad.
0-2 Machine Gun teams
0-1 Mortar team: light or medium
0-2 Bazooka teams
0-1 Sniper teams
Armoured cars
0-2 Armoured Car or Recce vehicle: M8 Greyhound
Tanks, Tank Destroyers, Self-propelled artillery and Anti-aircraft artillery
0-1 vehicle from M4A1 Sherman 75 mm medium tank, M4A1 Sherman 76 mm medium tank, M4 mortar carrier, M21 mortar carrier.
Transports and Tows
0-1 Transport vehicle per infantry unit in the Reinforced Platoon from: Jeep.