Dismounting Motorcycle Troops in Assault

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May a disrupted French DRG motorcycle unit in an wooded assault hex dismount and become a ESC unit?

I would say no they cannot do this as there are no provision in the Series Rules nor the FoF rules to do so.

Ever since MTC troops came into being in the game (in FoF?), I've always assumed that unit dismounts for combat and their MCs are nearby and the get back on them when they move.  i figured our cardboard platoon leader and Sergeants are handling how this is done within the timeframe of the turn and circumstance and it is not something I, as the battalion/regiment commander etc., need to worry about.  And also, a lot of rules, extra counters etc. are thus not needed for these edge-case moments.  Keep it simple...

Motorcycles have been in the series since Heroes of the Soviet Union a long long long time ago. The Afrika Korps module included rules for dismounting them (permanently). I tend to agree with your characterization of normal operations of MTC and Cav units within the system, and assumed that the dismounting rules from AK for MTCs represented something else. At times, that module included terrain that was impassable to Motorized units, leading me to believe that the rule was for odd cases that the mission forced these units through terrain that led to them abandoning the transport entirely. 

In a previous thread discussing, i cant remember, digging in of CAV/MTC? its been a while, I brought up the dismounting rule because I was playing through AK at the time. Some users have tried to add that rule into other modules, as they are not as much of rules purists as myself 

Just some context for you.