British TO&E info (split from British Army Equipment...)

[Rainbow Six]

Louie, thanks for the clarification on the Milan Platoons...that makes perfect sense.

By my count RAC in 1989 had nineteen Regiments (not including the HCMR). Taking that number into the start of the Twilight War I came up with this for the RAC at the start of the War:

Recce Regts (CVR(T))
Five (one for each of the three Armoured Divisions, plus one for 5th Abn Bde and one for 1st Mech Bde. 5th Abn Bde Regt has one Sqn assigned to 3 Cdo Bde, whilst 1st Mech Bde Regt has one Sqn going to the AMF(L) and (as this is for a T2K setting) one Sqn going to the Middle East Field Force.

MBT Regts (in my T2K timeline a mix of Chally 1 and Chally 2)
Twelve, which matches what you have exactly (porbably because as I mentioned the tanknet orbat is my framework!).

4th Arm Bde - 2 (Includes Berlin Sqn)
6th Arm Bde - 1
7th Arm Bde - 2
11th Arm Bde - 1
12th Arm Bde - 1
20th Arm Bde - 2
22nd Arm Bde - 2
33rd Arm Bde - 1

That makes seventeen, which leaves two Regts - the one assigned to the 1st Mech Bde at Tidworth and the one split between Catterick and Bovington. I hadn't seen a reference to that Regiment going to 19th Bde before - going by Graham Watson and Richard Rinaldi's book on the BAOR I thought 19th Bde at that point consisted of three Infantry Bns and no armour (although it does list a Recce Regt as coming under the Bde's command sometime around the start of the 1990's).

I don't have any definite info on where the Tidworth Regt deployed. Again looking at this strictly from a T2K perspective, I opted to have the Recce Troop in Cyprus (UN duties in Nicosia), one Sqn in Waminster (in a demo role) and one Sqn at BATUS in Canada, with the remainder going to Germany with the rest of 1st Bde.

Thanks again for the info...you've obviously done a shedload of work on this, and I appreciate you sharing it with us.

Cheers

[Fusilier]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Six

Recce Regts (CVR(T))
Five (one for each of the three Armoured Divisions, plus one for 5th Abn Bde and one for 1st Mech Bde. 5th Abn Bde Regt had one Sqn assigned to 3 Cdo Bde, whilst 1st Mech Bde Regt had one Sqn going to the AMF(L) and (as this is for a T2K setting) one Sqn going to the Middle East Field Force.

I'm not questioning your info or anything, but weren't there one or two Armd Recce regiments assigned as Corps level assets (one for either just I Corps or a second for II Corps as well)?

[Rainbow Six]

Originally Posted by Fusilier

I'm not questioning your info or anything, but weren't there one or two Armd Recce regiments assigned as Corps level assets (one for either just I Corps or a second for II Corps as well)?

I'm not aware of there being any Recce Regts being assigned to Corps level in the real World British orbat (although I may be mistaken).

The canon T2K orbat does have two Recce Regts assigned to each Corps as of the summer of 2000, and I will be sticking with that. I put an edit in (which may have been after you posted), but just to clarify my previous post referred to how I think things might have looked at the start of the War...the end of the War (or at least summer 2000) will look different...