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I am designing a scenario for a 1980's  Soviets against Nato game set during the early days of a Soviet invasion of West Germany.

In lightly wooded undulating terrain, what sort of frontage would a US army Tank Company be expected to cover? 

I have a sketch map which gives me the approximate positions of all the elements but there is no scale so I cant be confident my map is going to be scaled correctly. If I have an idea of what distance a Tank company in a defensive posture might be spread over I can make more sense of the scale of my map.

I had some US Army field manuals once, cant find the dam things now!

Ah. . Found my Field manuals..

With 2 armored platoons and 2 mech inf. squads on line I imagine it would be about 250-500 meters? With the rest of the forces behind that line for depth and manuever.

(08-29-2018, 06:18 AM)geoff Wrote: [ -> ]With 2 armored platoons and 2 mech inf. squads on line I imagine it would be about 250-500 meters? With the rest of the forces behind that line for depth and manuever.

That would all depend on terrain , the LOS, engineering works,  the expected opposing forces, the supporting elements and the mission.

Thanks for your replies. I suppose there is no "straight" answer, I just wanted some broad guidance, I haven't found anything in the FM that illuminates me so far.