Carrier Rifle Sections

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I concur that carrier rifle platoons are great recce(love their carriers)..also using them to assist in assualts, or to flank or cut off retreat paths before assaults is valuable..they are cheap and useful...I agree with you though on the fire power disparity...seems that 3 Brens should have more punch. (and within a 250 m sq hex, it would seem assault factor is lacking too for the same reason....) Their defense rating confuses me too...should be the same as a rifle pltn IMHO...even with fewer guys, the propensity of automatic weapons should make up for that...and there are even fewer men to be spotted, so it seems they should have that going for them in defense too....of course, they might no longer be "cheap" if all that was "fixed"! LOL I have never fully understood the abstractions for this unit, but have found them very useful just the same.