Darth_Doctrinus said:
Hmmm...good point.
In the round, I'd rather maintain the geographic footprint of the Army via the TA than reorganise everyone just for the sake of reorganising everyone!
Mind you, since when did sense ever come into this?
It leaves the south of England looking quite tidy with:
6th Bn, The Rifles (Southwest)
7th Bn, The Rifles (South)
3rd Bn, PWRR (Southeast)
London (London)
The north is quite tidy too:
4th Bn, Lancs (Northwest)
5th Bn, RRF (Northeast)
4th Bn, Yorks (Yorkshire)
Scotland, Wales and Ireland are organised by country (excepting that Chester is chopped to Royal Welsh Regiment, but who knows about the TA Coy?)
3rd Bn, Welsh
7th Bn, Scots
8th Bn, Scots
Rangers
The mess is in the Midlands. We have the following regiments:
4th Bn, Mercian
5th Bn, R Anglian
5 (?) R Anglian can easily be formed from EER, but 4 Mercian embraces the following existing TA Inf Coys:
B (Cheshire) Coy, KCR in Chester - area redesignated Welsh
D (Cheshire) Coy, KCR in Crewe
D (WFR) Coy, EER in Mansfield and Derby
A (Fusilier) Coy, WMR in Birmingham and Coventry
B (WFR) Coy, WMR in Kidderminster and Worcester
C (Staffs) Coy, WMR in Burton upon Trent
D (Staffs) Coy, WMR in Stoke upon Trent
E (LI) Coy, WMR in Shrewsbury and Hereford
HQ Coy, WMR in Wolverhampton
This means that they're taking more companies into the new Bn than even 4 Yorks.
However, 2 new RE Regiments are being formed under rebalancing, both in the north/ midlands I believe. Some coys or pls are likely to be chopped over to them.