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RE: Rules For Penal Troops
I think you guys have missed the essential problems when it comes to penal troops. I see the problems as being they count as step losses, they out run the main attack.
If the objective was to give free steps to the Axis, forced full movement and counting as regular casualties does that very well. On the other hand, if the intent was to create an unwieldy, expendable cover force (as they were actually used), it doesn't happen. Why it doesn't happen? Remember my oft complaint about march times? Penal troops moving at 3 outpace infantry attacks moving at 2, or force the follow-on troops to abandon their support weapons. How many of you leave you HMGs behind?
I don't know what Mike's intentions were, and PY's only partially. Since PY is on the forum, perhaps he might enlighten us, or at least me, as to what the intended operation context of the penal units is and how he thinks this was accomplished in RW and HoSU. "As for me and my house", we error on the side of history, so long as it doesn't mess up the system.
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