obat44 - West Germany

[narwan]

There are no specific 'Heimatschutzen (HS)' cie's in the game. It looks like the game does cover the tank cie's though since the M48 remains available when it was only in service with the HS brigades.

There are no motorised (truck) infantry cie's though and no mech cie's with M113's only that fit. The ones that are in the game are the MTW cie and the Pnzgrndr AT cie's but these have far too many Milan's in them to be HS cie's.
The problem with the regular Pnzgrndr cie's is that they do field the M113 as an APC choice (implying HS since regular army cie's had the Marder) but the heavy APC choice only allows for Marders. So you always end up with Marders in the cie.
Each HS infantry battallion (truck and APC) is also supposed to have 7 90mm tracked TD's but there's no sign of these anywhere. They disappear after 85. Looks like the HS in the game might need some work...

I also wonder which cie's if any are meant to represent the 15 light infantry home defense regiments and 150 security companies and 300 security platoons tha make up the rest of the territorial army? The regiments in particular are supposed to be capable of conducting conventional battles in the rear area's.

Noticed another thing too, the info I dug up now is very accurate with regards to the cie's and other formations of the regular army except when it comes to SP-ATGM cie's. It's only available in 16 unit cie's in the game while panzerbrigades had a cie of 9 and panzergrenadierbrigades a cie of 12 according to my data (for the 80's), anyone of you know who's right here?

Narwan