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changedBrief Description: Rear Echelon Troops are often caught up in combat augmenting frontline combat troops. Effective defenders and versatile, no army can do without them. Good for crewing team weapons, constructing defenses, hasty battlefield repairs, or last ditch infantry pushes. Deployment Conditions: Starting Unit Deployed From: Barracks Quote: Shake a leg, let’s go! Abilities Volley Fire: Rear Echelon Troops lay down a volume of fire with their rapid-firing carbines. While active, the targeted squad slowly becomes suppressed. Duration 15 seconds. Razor Wire: Strings of razor-sharp barbed wire block access by infantry and cannot be vaulted. Tank Traps: Tank traps can be built in a line and block all but the heaviest armored vehicles. Repair: Repair vehicles, structures, or bridges. Fighting Position: Build a small defensive structure. Can be upgraded with a Heavy Machine Gun. Holds one squad of infantry and provides cover. Rear Echelon Troops will use rifle grenades when garrisoned inside.
changedHazard Removal Package: Squad loses firepower as a mine detector replaces one of their weapons. Allows Battlefield Mine Detection (Passive), unlocks Wire Cutters.
changedRank 1: Rifle Training increases squad accuracy.
changedRank 3: Combat expertise increases squad survivability and weapon control while under fire.
changedDescription: Liberating Europe took a phenomenal amount of manpower. Estimates were that for every frontline soldier the USA fielded there were ten Americans in military support roles to keep that soldier fed, clothed, and healthy and with working equipment. While they rarely saw battle during the intense fighting between the US Forces and Germans on the Western Front there were times when rapidly fluctuating frontlines forced these troops into combat. Less combat ready than frontline soldiers the Rear Echelon Troops make up for this with their ability to pitch in on the battlefield repairing vehicles and building structures or manning captured enemy weapons. Coming from a wide variety of backgrounds, support troops were largely conscripted into the war effort before being shipped to the European front. Rear echelon troops were often cooks, chaplains, clerical staff, maintenance or quartermaster troops, armorers, stevedores, and military police. Typically they would not often see active combat, but cut off by the Germans from the rest of the army they often found themselves having to join the frontline soldier in combat. The Rear Echelon Troop is your starting unit, and along with Riflemen the first unit you’ll be able to deploy from your base. Early on they will be useful for capturing territory, but by mid-game you may want to hold them back in support roles building defenses and repairing damaged vehicles and structures or use them to man enemy weapons as effective crews.
Company of Heroes 2 changes
changedBrief Description: Rear Echelon Troops are often caught up in combat augmenting frontline combat troops. Effective defenders and versatile, no army can do without them. Good for crewing team weapons, constructing defenses, hasty battlefield repairs, or last ditch infantry pushes. Deployment Conditions: Starting Unit Deployed From: Barracks Quote: Shake a leg, let’s go! Abilities Volley Fire: Rear Echelon Troops lay down a volume of fire with their rapid-firing carbines. While active, the targeted squad slowly becomes suppressed. Duration 15 seconds. Razor Wire: Strings of razor-sharp barbed wire block access by infantry and cannot be vaulted. Tank Traps: Tank traps can be built in a line and block all but the heaviest armored vehicles. Repair: Repair vehicles, structures, or bridges. Fighting Position: Build a small defensive structure. Can be upgraded with a Heavy Machine Gun. Holds one squad of infantry and provides cover. Rear Echelon Troops will use rifle grenades when garrisoned inside.
changedHazard Removal Package: Squad loses firepower as a mine detector replaces one of their weapons. Allows Battlefield Mine Detection (Passive), unlocks Wire Cutters.
changedRank 1: Rifle Training increases squad accuracy.
changedRank 3: Combat expertise increases squad survivability and weapon control while under fire.
changedDescription: Liberating Europe took a phenomenal amount of manpower. Estimates were that for every frontline soldier the USA fielded there were ten Americans in military support roles to keep that soldier fed, clothed, and healthy and with working equipment. While they rarely saw battle during the intense fighting between the US Forces and Germans on the Western Front there were times when rapidly fluctuating frontlines forced these troops into combat. Less combat ready than frontline soldiers the Rear Echelon Troops make up for this with their ability to pitch in on the battlefield repairing vehicles and building structures or manning captured enemy weapons. Coming from a wide variety of backgrounds, support troops were largely conscripted into the war effort before being shipped to the European front. Rear echelon troops were often cooks, chaplains, clerical staff, maintenance or quartermaster troops, armorers, stevedores, and military police. Typically they would not often see active combat, but cut off by the Germans from the rest of the army they often found themselves having to join the frontline soldier in combat. The Rear Echelon Troop is your starting unit, and along with Riflemen the first unit you’ll be able to deploy from your base. Early on they will be useful for capturing territory, but by mid-game you may want to hold them back in support roles building defenses and repairing damaged vehicles and structures or use them to man enemy weapons as effective crews.
Brief Description
Rear Echelon Troops are often caught up in combat augmenting frontline combat troops. Effective defenders and versatile, no army can do without them. Good for crewing team weapons, constructing defenses, hasty battlefield repairs, or last ditch infantry pushes.
Deployment Conditions
Starting Unit Deployed From: Barracks Quote: Shake a leg, let’s go!
Abilities Volley Fire
Rear Echelon Troops lay down a volume of fire with their rapid-firing carbines. While active, the targeted squad slowly becomes suppressed. Duration 15 seconds.
Razor Wire
Strings of razor-sharp barbed wire block access by infantry and cannot be vaulted.
Tank Traps
Tank traps can be built in a line and block all but the heaviest armored vehicles.
Repair
Repair vehicles, structures, or bridges.
Fighting Position
Build a small defensive structure. Can be upgraded with a Heavy Machine Gun. Holds one squad of infantry and provides cover. Rear Echelon Troops will use rifle grenades when garrisoned inside.
Fuel Cache: Generates Fuel income and secures the sector when placed on a territory point.
Munitions Cache: Generates Munitions income and secures the sector when placed on a territory point.
Hazard Removal Package: Squad loses firepower as a mine detector replaces one of their weapons. Allows Battlefield Mine Detection (Passive), unlocks Wire Cutters.
Wire Cutters: Used to cut through barbed wire fences or barbed wire fields. Veterancy Levels
Rank 1: Rifle Training increases squad accuracy.
Rank 2: Increases the squad’s size to 5 and improves the ‘Repair’ ability.
Rank 3: Combat expertise increases squad survivability and weapon control while under fire.
Description: Liberating Europe took a phenomenal amount of manpower. Estimates were that for every frontline soldier the USA fielded there were ten Americans in military support roles to keep that soldier fed, clothed, and healthy and with working equipment. While they rarely saw battle during the intense fighting between the US Forces and Germans on the Western Front there were times when rapidly fluctuating frontlines forced these troops into combat. Less combat ready than frontline soldiers the Rear Echelon Troops make up for this with their ability to pitch in on the battlefield repairing vehicles and building structures or manning captured enemy weapons. Coming from a wide variety of backgrounds, support troops were largely conscripted into the war effort before being shipped to the European front. Rear echelon troops were often cooks, chaplains, clerical staff, maintenance or quartermaster troops, armorers, stevedores, and military police. Typically they would not often see active combat, but cut off by the Germans from the rest of the army they often found themselves having to join the frontline soldier in combat. The Rear Echelon Troop is your starting unit, and along with Riflemen the first unit you’ll be able to deploy from your base. Early on they will be useful for capturing territory, but by mid-game you may want to hold them back in support roles building defenses and repairing damaged vehicles and structures or use them to man enemy weapons as effective crews.
