With Rifle Company, Rear Echelons, upgraded with the flamethrower, turn into your anti-garrison unit. Create Fighting Positions in range of important buildings in the beginning of a game to deny machine guns important houses with Rifle grenades. ! Use Rear Echelon Troops to re-crew weapon teams or re-crew vehicles. With creative use of vehicle de-crew, a clever commander is capable of re-crewing vehicles with Rear Echelon Troops and using specialty vehicle crews for other tasks,such as Vehicle Crew Thompsons flank teams,or M20 Bazooka teams. Rear Echelon Troops may purchase weapons from the Weapon Rack, re-crew weapon teams, and re-crew vehicles. When a Rear Echelon squad is garrisoned inside a fighting position it can also fire a rifle grenade, providing additional firepower.Ĭan also construct Barbed Wire and Tank Traps.

In addition to repairing vehicles, the squad can construct a Fighting Position capable of being upgraded with a. When used as support to Riflemen, the Rear Echelon Troops are a strong addition to any army.

When this is used however,the squad will take extra damage,so be aware. At the cost of munitions Rear Echelon Troops can provide Suppressing Fire, slowly suppressing enemy infantry. They are the dedicated Mine sweeping squad of the U.S. Rear Echelon Troops are the US Forces cheap support units.

Good for crewing team weapons, constructing defenses, hasty battlefield repairs, or last infantry pushes'

Effective defenders and versatile, no army can do without them. 'Rear Echelon Troops are often caught up in combat augmenting combat troops.

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