The Roles and Weapons with the Squad

[Ken White]

Thought a lot about it. I trained to do it. Spent many happy hours firing through Hessian screens, but I am really not sure of the effectiveness versus the time spent training. All for learning how to hit buildings or wood frontages at 3,000m but I just see that as best done over open sights, with a little less "map prediction."

But...

Behind a wall or far side of a raised road would be my guess. The 51mm goes to 800m, so I'm not surprised that an HE round caused casualties when weapons fire did not.

and MG plus Ammo is lighter and more flexible than a Mortar plus Ammo.

Both can do good things, properly employed.

Plunging MG fire into defilade is easily possible with no tripod in visual range as well and at a greater distance than the 40mm LV can touch...

Training time spent on particular scenarios largely depends on where the guns are located, organizationally.