If they are Cossacks, then I can understand them being more motivated than your average former Red Army PoW that got volunteered to fight for Germans, and better riders than your average German cavalryman. That said, +15 to experience still sound quite a lot (it is what Brandenburgers tend to get).
Then again, considering the hazards that mounted cavalrymen face on a WWII battlefield, those brave Cossacks probably need every imaginable in-game advantage they can get if they are to survive for more than a couple of turns after making contact with the enemy.
I don't think people are exactly fielding these in droves when playing Germans. I am quite sure that I have never fielded them myself, though I have some gaming experience with certain other cavalry units. Maybe I should actually try fielding them in a game some day.
They have been the way they are now for well over a decade and I have no intention of making changes.......... if you're not happy with exp +15 there's MOBhack ........feel free to make your own changes.
The WW2 OOB's have gotten to the point all they are doing is generating really annoying nitpicky amounts of work for me with no real gameplay benefit to 99.9% of the players
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One thing only: 484 SdKfz 8 FlaK 18 were already used during the Polish campaign in 9/39 - seems, that they were delivered in early 1939 (it would demand a change in formations). It had light armour of a cab and gunshield (1 hull front and sides, 1 turret front?). Crew was only 4. There is no clear info on ammunition storage overall, but there is a mention, that there was a case for 18 rounds at the back (the only storage?) [Jentz Panzertracts]
...supplement: there was also an ammunition box with 6 rounds on the upper carriage.
"Encyclopedia Of German Tanks Of WWII" by Jentz & Doyle claims, that it carried 40 rounds, but Panzertracts are much more detailed (Encyclopedia also gives a crew of 9, but documents quoted in Panzertracts state it was only 4 - there was 9 in a version towed by an armoured tractor).
Basically, Bussig NAG gets a contract to develop a halftrack with a rear mounted engine specifically designed as a tank destroyer platform. Four prototypes of the HKp 902 halftrack were built.
Of this, two prototypes were armed with the Rheinmetall 7.5 cm L40.8 gun in an open topped turret with 35 rounds on board.
The two prototypes were completed in 1941 and they were organized into a platoon for troop trials with Panzerjäger-Abteilung ("Anti-Tank Battalion") 605 of the Afrika Korps.
The first vehicle was reported received on 17 January 1942 by Panzerjäger-Abteilung 605, but the second was not reported as arrived in Tripoli until 23 February 1942.
The platoon was transferred to the Kampfstaffel des Oberbefehlshaber Panzerarmee Afrika (Rommel's personal battle group) on 8 March 1942.
Only one vehicle was reported operational on 25 May at the start of Operation Venezia during the Battle of Gazala; the other had been captured by the British, shown in undated photographs. Shortly afterwards, on 5 June, the Kampfstaffel reported that the other vehicle had been lost after knocking out three tanks.
I thinking that if you will be interested to include period of first german-soviet cooperation in 1929-1933 (blue OOB) and tanks tested in Panzerschule Kama during that time. Meaby that is some period when german Reichswehr tank program and soviet has some mutual development.
Kama Testing ground https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_tank_school
Now that one ( Pz.Sfl.Ic ) is very close in concept but it is described as " a fixed open-topped superstructure " mounting a 5 cm Kanone L/60
but as noted in the original post the Pz.Sfl. II had it's 75mm gun " mounted in an open-topped, low-profile turret "
If anyone knows of a source that gives hull length and width It would be helpful but not critical and that example I provided was a WAG for length and width which is probably within a pixel or two of being "close enough" but it would be nice to have actual data
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Pz.Sfl Ic (5cm Pak 38 auf Pz.Kpfw.II Sonderfahrgestell 901), there's no hard dimensions on it; the cannon was a modified Pak 38 with the breech and mount adapted from a 5 cm KWK gun.
No hard data on ammunition stowage #s; the dimensions given in
Dimensions (L-W-H, based on VK 9.03) 4.24 m x 2.39 m x 2.05 m
Are probably good enough.
But while researching this in Panzer Tracts, I found ANOTHER ONE.
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Pz.Sfl Ia (5cm PaK 38 auf gp.Mun.Schlepper)
On 5 July 1940, Wa Pruef was authorized to develop a light Panzerjager for the Luftlandetruppen (Airborne troops). The design chosen was a 5 cm Pak 38 L60 mounted in an armored superstructure on a converted VK 3.02 munitions schlepper chassis designed by Borward.
To save weight, the forward gunshield was to be composed of Schottenpanzer (spaced armor)
2 x 4mm plates (front)
2 x 3mm plates (side)
Frontal/Side Armor was to defeat 7.92mm Steel Core AP bullets.
Mass was 4500 kg, top speed was 30 km/hr.
Crew was 3
Panzerprogramm 41 called for 3,144 of them to be built; but production wasn't scheduled to begin until 1943.
Two trial units were built by 1 July 1942 and sent to the front for troop trials. On 8 Aug 1942, 19 PzDiv reported the serial numbers of the two units back to OKH.
Unfortunately, the experience report from Panzerjager Abteilung 19 on this was lost to history -- we know it was sent to OKH on 18 Sep 1942, but a copy of the report wasn't included/retained in 19 PzDiv's war diary.
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Also, this rabbit hole was worth it for me as a researcher, because I found out about Panzerprogramm 41; something I did not know about before.
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