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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SableWyvern" data-source="post: 258470" data-attributes="member: 1008">I should be able to give you some fairly precise timings (depending on ground/size etc...), but its been a while since I've needed to know that.Speaking for Australian doctrine, here are a few guidelines.Shellscrape: this is the first thing you dig - just big enough to lie down in, maybe 6" deep. Depending on the ground, 20 minutes to an hour should have a decent one of these completed.Stage 1 Rifle Pit: Shellscrapes are dug in pairs, spaced about 6' appart. A stage 1 pit digs a waist high fighting bay forward of or behind the shellscrapes. The two soldiers working in tandem should be able to do this in about 90 mins, working in pairs in pretty good ground. In rocky ground, it could be a lot longer, without drill-breakers etc...Stage 2 Rifle Pit: Dig out the fighting bay to chest high. Add a firing rest along the front. Another 2 to 2 and a half hours.Stage 3 Rifle Pit: Dig the shellscrapes down to a few inches above the floor of the fighting bay. Brace all walls with CGI (corrugated iron). About half way down, put a wooden or CGI ceiling over your dug out shellscrapes, then two layers of sandbags, then fill in. You now have two sleeping bays with good overhead protection extending out of your fighting bay, after another 6 to 10 hours work (still assuming good ground). Edit: forgot, you need to sandbag the top edges of the fighting bay as well.Stage 4: Add overhead cover to the fighting bay, dig out some shelves, a sump down the bottom, start adding crawl trenches to the next pit, stick up some posters....Edit: during the the entire process, you also need to stop your spoil from mounding up, as well as keeping it camouflaged from overhead recconnaisance. You also need to keep topsoil aside for this purpose (ie, camouflaging the spoil).</blockquote>

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