Movement Rates

[Mark Breed]

I am designing a scenario and I have come across something a little puzzling. I created an infantry division with truck and horse teams for transport and logistical support. I also created a cavalry division with just horse team for transport and logistical support. The interesting issue is that the infantry division is faster than the cavalry division. Doesn't the movement rate go based on the slowest element?

Infantry Division
Movement Rate = 18
576 Rifle Squads
144 Engineer Squads
9 Military Police Squads
244 Machine Gun Teams
72 75mm Guns
36 105mm Howitzers
6 6-Inch Trench Mortars
1,460 Horse Teams
456 Truck

Cavalry Division
Movement Rate = 10
576 Mounted Rifle Squads (Late)
27 Engineer Squads
32 Machine Gun Teams
24 75mm Guns
756 Horse Teams

Thank you for any feedback.

Mark

[rhinobones]

Sounds like you’re in that gray area where TO&E accuracy bumps up against TOAW reality.

Lower the number of trucks in the infantry division until you get the movement rate desired. Then add trucks to the cavalry division until the movement rate comes up to what you want. Think you’ll find that in TOAW a few trucks have a greater impact than expected.

Regards, RhinoBones

[Lobster]

The game doesn't care what you want the trucks used for. The game uses them for general transport of everything. Anything with the transport flag is treated that way.

[Mark Breed]

Thank you for the responses.

[cathar1244]

Mark,

Yeah, 456 trucks is a LOT of truck transport for a TOAW unit.

Transport vehicles in TOAW can have multiple aspects. One "truck" represents a given transport capability that in reality would be a small fleet of trucks.

Yet, come combat, if enemy infantry fires on that one truck, it is treated as one truck for combat resolution purposes.

Cheers

[Mark Breed]

Thank you for the clarification.