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Reply To: Continued Explorations of Normandy Wargaming

June 16, 2019 at 8:36 pm #1405389

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@redvers – the idea on the block save is actually a really good one. Spacing blocks every three hexes was too bloody, every four hexes would bee too lenient. We need a way to get every “3 1/2” if that makes any sense.

Yeah, my sources have the Sherwood Rangers, or at least two squadrons thereof, part of the lead echelon of 8th Armoured Brigade, attached to 50th Northumberland Division.

I checked a couple sources on that one because I was also mixed up on the name of the regiment. Apparently it has changed names at least twice since then, or been amalgamated/combined with other regiments …

Renamed Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment

Amalgamated with the Worcestershire Regiment to form the Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (the one @brucelea mentioned in the video)

Later, amalgamated with the Cheshire Regiment and the Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’) Regiment.

So I guess that’s forms the present-day “Mercian Regiment.”

This is one reason I tend to stay away from a lot of British historical battles, at least if I want to design a “heavy history” scenario. Their unit names and structure conventions are so damned confusing, at least for someone used to American models!

Then again, once you master Soviet RKKA ToEs and OOBs for World War II (in Russian, no less), I suppose British organizational structures can seem a little less bewildering.