[jester]

Damn, for us 2 rounds were standard combat load for every swining dick in the company. And there was often a belt of 60 ammo to go with it, or spare radio batteries <the old style batteries that took up the whole bottom of the PRC 67>

I had a bro in mortars before I went over who humped about two dozen rounds the poor bastage. As for motar crews, in our company if it was tactical then the gun would be assembled and carried to be fired in the handheld mode. If we were rucking to reach a location then it got broken down and spreadloaded.

When using mortars there are other factors,

the old WWII-Vietnam style stuff is not as powerful of has the range as the new stuff they gave us in the 80s/90s my special book of wizardly skills was aquired by an unknown soul long ago so the actual numbers of the items and what they can do are lost to me.

Further, where you are firing also affect things. Firing into soft sand, mud or snow will reduce the effectiveness of your mortar. In rocky terrain and hard packed ICE then the fragmentation effect is increased, same with heavily wooded areas due to wood splinters. However, those areas also are limited in area due to the density <is that a word?> to block the shrapnel.

Those are just something to think about.

And a 60mm won't really do much against armored vehicles, but an 81mm will.