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USMC Pioneer squads? - 6/2/2012 2:24:54 PM

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What are USMC Pioneer squads? They have Anti-armor rating 0 and they are not Engineers.2nd USMC Pioneer Batallion starts in Sand Diego and is described as an engineer unit, yet if I rest all units at San Diego and put the 2nd in Combat mode, no engineers show up in the base screen. Can they dig anything? How do I use them? Disband them in San Francisco?

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RE: USMC Pioneer squads? - 6/2/2012 3:11:49 PM

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Pioneers are Shore Party enabled. Pioneer Bns are specialized units configured to conduct Shore Party operations during Amphibious assaults in support of their divisional echelon. They help the rest of a MarDiv to load/unload and control the beach, i.e., load/unload follow-on supply and reinforcements. They are not classical engineers, per se. Their equipment TO&E includes lighters and boats, not bulldozers. Like all Marines, "every man a rifleman", so they will AV and have decent firepower. This is so they can take a sector on the defensive perrimeter. They had a secondary function as engineers, but that (limited) portion of their capabilities is abstracted into a proportional increase in the scale of "combat" and "other" engineers at the regimental level.

It is suficient to make them Shore Party enabled. That was their primary function. They are very valuable in that regard.

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RE: USMC Pioneer squads? - 6/2/2012 3:17:42 PM

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Thanks a lot, JWE! Makes sense.

Wow, the unit has 27 Shore Party value! Do I get bigger Shore Party units later in the war or is this one the biggest?

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RE: USMC Pioneer squads? - 6/2/2012 4:43:09 PM

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Well, there's some base force units (that aren't tagged BF) that are equivalent to Cub and Lion advanced Naval bases.

And then there are the USN "Special" Naval Construction Bns. Not really classical Seabees, but rather Seabee stevedores whose job was to conduct Shore Party and port improvement operations on island bases.

And then there's the USMC AmphTrac Bns, which were not tanks, but rather PhibSup transports. Those specific devices (LVT-1s) are also Shore Party enabled, so they work just like LCVPs in assisting load/unload of non "A" ships in harbor, without the need for LCVP TFs. Army AmphTracs, too. Worth a poopload more as Shore Party than as tanks.

Probably a couple more that I can't remember offhand, but the whole idea is to limit the availability of NavSup to a very few units such that only specifically populated bases, with specifically defined units, can operate as Naval bases with repair and rearm capability. Everything else is a "base with boats", or a unit with "handy hands". It's an operational concept kinda thing.

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