Unit Designations and Meeting Engagements

2/66 Armor vice 2-66 Armor:  Both refer to the Second Battalion of the
66th 
Armored Regiment.  The difference in US usage is the / is used if the
Regiment 
is acting as a Maneuver unit (Regimental command, etc) where the - is
used when 
the Battalion is part of a Task force or Brigade.

TOE (Table of Organization and Equipment) any higher than Brigade
(Regiment) is 
mostly support services and specialist units.  Most games won't see the
Field 
Repair Company or the Engineer Topographic Detachment.	Combat units
tend to 
follow a pattern of 3-5 mix (Platoons to Companies, etc) With 1 Engineer
or 
Artillery unit of the next size smaller to each unit in the mix (3-5
Companies 
gets you 1 Engineer platoon and 1 Artillery platoon (6 tubes/guns)).

Meeting engagement:  Think Gettysburg, or Quarte Bras.	Forces "Bump"
into each 
other and units deploy from the March.	Objective is to find the enemy.

Movement to contact:  Moving force is trying to locate the main line of 
resistance, or bypass routes.  If both sides are doing it, see above. 
 Objective is to find and "Fix" the enemy (Fix: lock into place to allow
others 
to manuver)

Hasty Attack:  the "I think I can lick'em with what I got" attack. 
Little or 
no pre-planned fire support.  What usually follows a movement to
contact. Think 
Heth at Gettysburg.  Objective is usually to secure terrain to set up
the 
following.

Deliberate Attack:  Think Pickett's assault.  Pre-planned fire support, 
Priority of assets (Engineers, Logistics, etc).  Objective is to destroy
or 
rout the enemy.  Can also be directed at a significant terrain objective
(River 
crossing, beachhead, Strategic pass, etc.)

Michael Brown