DAR: GE Long campaign - small core

[Brian61]

Originally Posted by Pat58

Interesting. You do know as a batterie, you would take yourself down to 7 StuGs. I ask because I'm fighting in Russia with one in my core.

Yes, although some had 10 StuGs fairly early. They had additional vehicles though in the batterie TOE among them each platoon had its own ammo carrier. So what I'm planning on is having initially three platoons of two StuGs and an SdKfz 251/1 carrying an ammo cannister. Later this will become three StuGs and something like an SdKfz 252 ammo carrier.

Also, I'll be creating a small kampfgruppe around the batterie, attaching a sIG section, an SPAA section, likely a pionier platoon, and scout platoon. The kampfgruppe will also include a mechanized or motorized infantry company from the parent organization which I'll rotate out since they won't really be part of the long campaign core though they will be part of the kampfgruppe core.

The overall effect of the change is a cheaper, yet individually more powerful group of armored vehicles with a larger proportion of infantry which I believe will fit the Eastern Front better than the current rather armor heavy desert warfare setup. Sometime in 1944, KG Krafft will be pulled out of the Eastern Front, possibly changed to a heavy panzer company based kampfgruppe, and deployed to the Western Front.

Thanks for your interest
Brian