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I was wondering if someone could help me. I am playing out a campaign with a friend of mine and I am concerned that there may have been some confusion over what a Panzerjager Battalion is comprised of for D-Day on Juno beach. According to one source I've read a Panzerjager Battalion (the 352nd's) had the following units: 352. Panzerjäger Abteilung 14 x Marder II and Marder III variant Panzerjäger 10 x StuG III Ausf. G assault guns 9 x FlaKPanzer 38 Self-Propelled Flak Another Unit, the 716th's had: 4x Self-Propelled 7.5cm Pak 40 (a) 3x 7.5cm PaK 40 1x 8.8cm PaK 43/41 1x 2cm Flak or 10 heavy AT guns on tracked chassis. (some kind of locally made conversion) eleven heavy AT guns (not motorized). 6 Of the AT guns that were not on tracked chassis, probably two were 8,8 cm Pak 43/41 and nine were 7,5 cm Pak 40.7 The AT guns on tracked chassis were 7,5 cm Pak 40.8 I have 3 questions: 1) Is the 352nd's formation unusually strong for a Panzerjäger Battalion or standard strength at this period in Normandy? 2) What would a standard strength of Panzerjäger Battalion of the period (in general accepting the usual statements that german formations tended not to be standard) be comprized of? 3) Does anyone have a better idea what the 716th's Panzerjäger Battalion unit was comprised of?

A friend and myself are looking to use Combat Mission to play out interesting battles for a Table Top game we are playing. The problem we are having is that the game is mostly concerned with units at a Batallion level with units occassionaly broken down to Companies. We are following the Canadians from Juno to Caen We can't agree on what is a fair way to simulate these engagements. My friend favour's going the organic battalion route (infanty and armour OOBs as per basic unit list ie: a Fusilier Battalion gets the Fusilier Battalion from the unit Selection, a Canadian Infantry Battalion get's the Infantry Battlion). which has the benifit of simplifying the combat set-up. This seems unreasonable to me given the amount of equipment found in German vs Canadian infantry battalions. My question is am I wrong, are the Organic Battalion a good historical generic representation of the equiment the units would bring to a fight? If not how should we look at fixing the scenarios wihout overly complicating the strategic game?