Arming the Omega ships

[Olefin]

One way for the US to get a lot of equipment home during Omega would have been to arm the civilian ships they used. And I not talking about trying to justify taking home tanks or SPG.

I mean it as a way of taking home machine guns, mortars ,artillery pieces, anti-tank guns, anti-tank rockets and launchers, and anti-aircraft launchers and missiles and ammo for those weapons.

Would be easy to justify such an exercise. That way you get a bunch of stuff home and not just a mob of 43,000 men.

Imagine your typical container ship - to arm it properly you would want at least 2-4 artillery pieces, a couple dozen machine guns, four to eight man-portable anti-aircraft missiles and at least a few tankbuster type rocket launchers plus ammo for those weapon systems.

Now multiple that by the size of the fleet and the US could easily have brought home several batteries of howitzers let alone a lot of other weapons and still obey the letter of the agreement with the Germans.

And those weapons would make a huge difference at home even if the units getting them are foot infantry and using horses or oxen to haul their guns.

And it works perfectly with canon - no vehicles go, no tanks, no AFV's - but the US doesnt go home empty handed either. And even then most likely the majority of such weapons would still end up in German hands.