That's quite sensible and is indeed an excellent idea, but it still doesn't say which side actually is the "Front" that should be pointed towards the enemy.
That's quite sensible and is indeed an excellent idea, but it still doesn't say which side actually is the "Front" that should be pointed towards the enemy.
This is the sharp analysis that Mr. Weir is renown for!That's quite sensible and is indeed an excellent idea, but it still doesn't say which side actually is the "Front" that should be pointed towards the enemy.
OR.....or.... the Germans have yet to write a manual for a claymore because they didn't venture to places where they would need, let alone use, them.....
So we gotta concede that there is some of that notorious German ingeniuety featured in that field manual which the US appears not yet to have caught up with looking at that claymore mine. :bow:
von Marwitz
You could be right. The Germans only got stuck in administrative jungle so far, I believe. Might possibly be as bad as the jungle in Vietnam in some ways.OR.....or.... the Germans have yet to write a manual for a claymore because they didn't venture to places where they would need, let alone use, them.
Yes, I was asking if you had any anecdotes of this actually happening. ASL scenarios are almost always structured around actual combat reports. If there aren't any, this seems like a solution in search of a problem.The same situations as described above could of course arise not only in WW1 but as well in WW2. The annex No. 2 of "Feldbefestigungen des deutschen Heeres" states that the following measure of overhead cover would be deemed necessary for safe protection vs. a direct hit of 10.5cm shells (for example): filled soil - 5 meters, "gewachsener" Boden (dunno the English term - natural unmoved soil) - 4 meters, clay/loam - 4 meters, sand/debris - 3.8 meters, soft woods - 3.4 meters, hard woods - 2.8 meters, etc. Values for a 120mm MTR: filled soil - 7 to 8 meters, clay/loam - 5.5 to 6.5 meters, sand/debris - 4.8 to 6 meters. This is considerable. It is highly unlikely that most dugouts of WW2 went that far into the ground. So the "normal" dugouts in WW2 would in many cases not be proof vs. direct hits of artillery of rather common calibers, which in turn makes occurrences of soldiers being bombed in their dugouts probable.
there's always a FNG - hence the same label on a Claymore.....Sorry to quote with the full attachment, but there's a reason: I'm delightfully entertained by the arrow notation "feindwärts" ("toward the enemy").
Without that, who knows what horrible misconfiguration might have occurred. "OK Sarge, we're all set! They'll never know what hit 'em!" "Dorfmann you idiot! It's facing the wrong way!"
This is really funny!"Explosive Is Poisonous If Eaten"
I wouldn't limit the dugout to the trench hex, but it would have to be attached to a specific trench hex (pointy arrow), allow CC from and to units IN the trench, also a "dig your self out" rule if the trench is destroyed by attacks. That maybe beyond a ASL game however, a friend in my Vietnam unit had spent about 6 hours buried in a command bunker after a rocket attack.If I were to design a Dugout rule, I would perhaps portray it as a Fortified "Cellar" Location in the Trench hex, with LOS restricted to/from units IN the Trench (and possibly Area Fire from/to it), with a +4 TEM ; it would be unvulnerable to Indirect Fire or OVR (EXC: if Shellholes are created, it would be destroyed with the Trench altogether).
could go with this warning label:This is really funny!
Well, at least we may surmise that it is apparently not hazardous to put live claymores into the microwave...
von Marwitz
If that's not a liberal plot then it would be a good idea if California sent an letter or even an email to Michigan, specifically to the city of Flint.could go with this warning label:
Err. No. The memo needed to go out wold wide to all a long time ago...Brown Bess spewed it way before it was in the water in Flint.If that's not a liberal plot then it would be a good idea if California sent an letter or even an email to Michigan, specifically to the city of Flint.
What would it change if it were placed in the trench hex, if it is attached to only a specific one?I wouldn't limit the dugout to the trench hex, but it would have to be attached to a specific trench hex (pointy arrow)