Motorized Infantry Manpower

A military-oriented and sci-fi wargame, set on procedural planets with customizable factions and endless choices.

Moderator: Vic

Post Reply
User avatar
mroyer
Posts: 1277
Joined: Sun Mar 06, 2016 12:27 pm

Motorized Infantry Manpower

Post by mroyer »

Is this correct? The manpower for a motorized infantry brigade is double that of an unmotorized?
Drivers, motor-pool, mechanics?

-Mark R.


Image
Attachments
Untitled.jpg
Untitled.jpg (165.86 KiB) Viewed 428 times
pbi298
Posts: 8
Joined: Sat Jan 22, 2022 5:16 pm

RE: Motorized Infantry Manpower

Post by pbi298 »

Those 550 trucks need people to drive them, support them, etc.
User avatar
mroyer
Posts: 1277
Joined: Sun Mar 06, 2016 12:27 pm

RE: Motorized Infantry Manpower

Post by mroyer »

ORIGINAL: pbi298

Those 550 trucks need people to drive them, support them, etc.

I'm just surprised it's double. And more surprised I hadn't noticed it before....

I think in WW2 that didn't hold up - the effort of maintaining horses and wagons vs vehicles, if I recall correctly, caused standard divisions to be slightly larger in manpower than motorized divisions.

-Mark R.

zgrssd
Posts: 5105
Joined: Tue Jun 09, 2020 1:02 pm

RE: Motorized Infantry Manpower

Post by zgrssd »

Yes and No.

Yes, those 55 Truck Subunits need drivers. And you need 55 trucks for 55 Infantry Subunits.
100 is the smalest denominator recruits come in, so every subunit uses either 100 or 0 of it.

However the resulting doubling of manpower need did not work so well. So Vic added a rule that while you need that many to raise it, a lot of those (3/5 IIRC) are returned after raising them. The units also eat proportionally less food.
Buggies have a similar deal, with a reduced manpower demand.
User avatar
mroyer
Posts: 1277
Joined: Sun Mar 06, 2016 12:27 pm

RE: Motorized Infantry Manpower

Post by mroyer »

I see. When did this creep into the game. Now that you mention it, I did see a "soldiers returned to SHQ" message earlier in this scenario related to buggies.

Thanks,
-Mark R.
zgrssd
Posts: 5105
Joined: Tue Jun 09, 2020 1:02 pm

RE: Motorized Infantry Manpower

Post by zgrssd »

ORIGINAL: mroyer

I see. When did this creep into the game. Now that you mention it, I did see a "soldiers returned to SHQ" message earlier in this scenario related to buggies.

Thanks,
-Mark R.
1.08.03:
"-Manpower Rebate rule. Trucks / APCs and Recon Buggies return some manpower back to SHQ after their deployment from the factory (returning mechanics, logistics and factory teams). Defacto thus Trucks use only 20% of stated manpower, APCs and Recon Buggies 33%. (this rule also results in less manpower returned on disband and food consumption) (Militia does not profit from this rule as they are rather inefficient) "
https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=5010532
Post Reply

Return to “Shadow Empire”