Question for any Battlegroup players

[acctingman]

I was under the impression that a rifle squad and an MG/bren/BAR team were seperate units, thus each requiring their own orders.

Watching a batrep on YouTube, the American player was rolling something like 12 dice (rifle team and bar team) with 1 order.

I looked at 1 of my BG books, and I didnt see anything indicating that the rifle team and BAR team were a single unit.

Im guessing the folks in the video were house ruling it?

[SJWi]

Which period are you gaming? It could be that as with the Germans the organisation changes between 1940/43 and '45 in the case of the Brits and Yanks accordingly.

[acctingman]

Which period are you gaming? It could be that as with the Germans the organisation changes between 1940/43 and '45 in the case of the Brits and Yanks accordingly.

It was a video batrep and I think they were playing post d-day.

[SJWi]

I've just looked at the ORBATs in the "Fall of the Reich" book. In an Armoured Infantry platoon the basic unit is a 10 man rifle squad with a BAR, in an ordinary infantry platoon there is a 7 man rifle squad and a separate 5 man BAR squad. I don't have the D-Day book to hand to check for mid 1944.

[acctingman]

I've just looked at the ORBATs in the "Fall of the Reich" book. In an Armoured Infantry platoon the basic unit is a 10 man rifle squad with a BAR, in an ordinary infantry platoon there is a 7 man rifle squad and a separate 5 man BAR squad. I don't have the D-Day book to hand to check for mid 1944.

Then I think this is on me. Not really looking through the individual books. Thanks for the reminder!!

[SJWi]

By the way I've now checked the "Beyond the Beaches" book which details ORBATs for just post D-Day and the American ones are the same as for "Fall of the Reich". Glad to see another BG player out there. My favourite set of WW2 rules. Quite simple but they allow you to play quite big games in a reasonable time.