I'd like to request the following changes/additions. I've now exhausted the available literature, so this pretty much wraps it up for this OOB, save for a couple of utility vehicles and maybe a patrol boat or two. But I'll leave those for next year.
UNITS:
036 - end date can be extended to 12/46 - as a rule, German weapons remained in use to the end of the war and longer
143 - end date can be extended to 12/44, since it was used by the local guerrillas and militias
162 - end date can be extended until 12/45, since it was only phased out after the war
Request adding:
Rifle Squad (unit class: 1) weapons diversification
-Currently, all Rifle Squads from 1/45-12/46 all have Soviet weapons, while historically there were still plenty of captured German weapons as well as ex-Royal Yugoslav ones in use. Thus, I'd request Rifle Squads with the following weapon combinations be added:
1. Kar 98k Rifle + MG34 LMG + Hand Grenade + Tellermine (1/45-12/45)
2. Kar 98k Rifle + MG42 LMG + Hand Grenade + GebaltenGranate (1/45-12/46, radio code: 1)
3. M24 Rifle + VZ30J LMG + Hand Grenade + Hawkins Mine (1/45-12/46)
Request adding:
Ja-12 (arty tractor)
-date: 1/45-12/46
-unit class: 180
-Sent by Soviets together with other vehicles. I think it would be a good thing to add them since there's currently only horse limbers in the OOB.
Photo:
http://www.srpskioklop.paluba.info/p...okrakom/p6.jpg
-can be found in Polish LWP OOB, unit 182
Request adding:
Partisan AT / Bazooka
-date: 9?/44-12/46
-unit class: 2
-Sent to the partisans via the British mission on the island of Vis.
-photo of British officer teaching how to use it:
http://www.bosnienforum.com/showthre...?t=3040&page=3
Request adding:
Autoblinda 40
-date: 9/43-12/45
-unit class: 11
-I've found this model of the Autoblinda was also among those captured by the partisans. Attaching photo.
Request adding:
Panhard 178
-date: 11?/44-12/46
-unit class: 11
-I found out they were captured and used in combat by the partisans.
-several Pahnards can be seen behind the trucks on the right on this photo:
http://s832.photobucket.com/user/dra...qdq4m.jpg.html
Request adding:
M13/40
-date: 9/43-?/45
-unit class: 159
-A few were captured and used by partisans when Italy surrendered. Attaching photo.
Request adding:
305mm 16M Skoda Mortar
-date: 1/30-4/41
-unit class: 155
-Used by Yugo Royal Army, inherited from Austria-Hungary. I think it would be a good idea to add since the current OOB lacks this kind of siege arty.
-can be found in Hungarian OOB (unit 255)
Request adding:
5cm GrW 36 - six men, 2 mortars per unit
-date: 1/43-12/45
-unit class: 153
-captured from Germans by partisans, also used by Ustashe
-photo of partisan 5cm GrW:
http://fototeka.sabh.hr/FotoAlbumi/Fotografija/1714
Request adding:
Fieseler Storch
-date: 10/43-12/44
-unit class: 50
-a small number of aircraft were either captured or defected following the surrender of Italy. I'd use the Storch to represent these (in reality there was a variety of unarmed aircraft, but the Storch is already in the game, so it's easier to use it to represent all of them).
Request adding
BF 109G-2/R-1
-date: 4/45-12/46
-unit class: 44
-again, these were captured planes and defectors. Remained in use after end of war (as seen in WinSPMBT).
-info:
http://www.aeroflight.co.uk/waf/yugo...Indyhq-sqn.htm
FORMATIONS:
If Storch is added,
Formation 79 start date should be 10/43.
WEAPONS (new, for requested units):
MG 42 LMG - for Rifle Squad
Bazooka - for Pastisan AT
8mm (2) TMG - for Autoblinda 40
25mm SA 35 L/53 - for Panhard 178
5cm GrW 36
305mm 16M Skoda Mortar
13mm MG-131 - for BF 109G
30mm MK-101 - ditto
I'm attaching 5 relevant photos plus what I think are higher-res versions of 3 photos used in the game.