Rear Echelon Troops

Rear Echelon Troops
Army	United States Army
Role	Support Infantry
Men per Squad	4
Unit Cost	200 200 5 5
Upkeep per Minute	-7 −7
Produced By	Barracks
Cost to Reinforce	25 25 1 1
Health per Man	80 80
Basic Weapon	4x M1 Carbine
Open Weapon Slots	2
Produces (6) Razor Wire Builds a fence of barbed wire, which infantry cannot pass through Free Takes 7 second for each laid wire Tank Trap Builds an obstacle that blocks all except the heaviest of vehicles from passing Provides  Heavy Cover to infantry standing nearby Free Takes 9 seconds for each tank trap. Fighting Position Defensive Structure that can be upgraded with a heavy machine gun for 60 60 Garrisons a single Infantry Squad and provides  Heavy Cover Garrisoned Rear Echelon Troops gain a rifle grenade for long range bombardment Has 400 400 and medium resistance to small arms 125 125 to build Takes 16 seconds to build Munitions Cache Build on a standard owned connect flag to generate an additional 5 5 per minute Has 500 500 and is vulnerable to small arms Takes 20 seconds to build Fuel Cache Build on a standard owned connect flag to generate an additional 3 3 per minute Has 500 500 and is vulnerable to small arms Takes 20 seconds to build M7 Light Anti-Vehicle Mine Deals 80 damage and temporarily reduces mobility Costs 10 10 to place Takes 8 seconds to place
Abilities (4) Repair Restores HP to any Building, Bridge, or Vehicle Costs nothing M23 Smoke Screen Grenade Provides smoke cover after detonation Requires Grenade Package unlock from Barracks Costs 15 15 Wire Cutters Used to cut through barbed wire Requires Hazard Removal Package Costs nothing Volley Fire Targeted enemy squad is slowly suppressed over time Active for 15 seconds. Costs 20 20
Upgrades (1) Hazard Removal Package Allows passive mine detection and removal in exchange for 1x M1 Carbine Unlocks Wire Cutters Costs 30 30

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Overview

Rear Echelon Troops are the engineer and support infantry of the United States Forces. They are immediately avaliable from the Barracks. They can build a variety of defensive structures and repair vehicles and structures for the United States Forces.

Weapons

Rear Echelon squads are equipped with 4x M1 Carbines by default, with another added once the squad reaches the third veterancy level and gains another model. While they have a high rate of fire, they have low stationary accuracy and even lower moving accuracy and the squad is generally effective at close-mid range. However, against larger light armor targets, such as the OKW‘s Kubelwagen, they can deal a surprising amount of damage.

Like other US infantry, their weapon slots can be filled with any combination of BARs, Bazookas, and/or one M1919 .30 cal LMG if it is available to the chosen commander.

Equipping BARs and Bazookas can boost the anti-infantry and anti-vehicle effectiveness respectively. However, due to the poor base anti-infantry of the rear echelon troops, BARs and M1919 LMGs are not usually recommended. If you do decide to equip these weapons, though, then the suppression of their Volley Fire ability will be greatly increased, turning a normally lackluster ability into a potentially very useful one.

Because they are not generally used as main line units, Rear Echelons are often upgraded with the Hazard Removal Package and then given a Bazooka, replacing their mediocre anti-infantry capability with mine detection and passable light anti-tank capability.

When garrisoned in fighting positions, rear echelon troops will get one rifle grenade launcher.

Veterancy

	Level 1 Veterancy: +20% accuracy
	Level 2 Veterancy: +50% repair speed , -23% received accuracy, -20% weapon cooldown
	Level 3 Veterancy: Increases the squad's size to 5

Gallery

A defense with two Rear Echelon squads and a Fighting position against an OKW advance.