Duckman Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Just want to share in the love for the Su-100, even if it missed Bagration. But we still get the T-34/85! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Alte Fritz Posted December 7, 2012 Author Share Posted December 7, 2012 One of my favorite AFVs is the SU-100, a military love affair that goes back to high school and my Tamiya 1:35 scale motorized one, which, in things coming full circle (see vid), was also Russian green and running around on the snow. Regards, John Kettler Me too John only it is for the earlier and rarer SU-85 or the even rarer SU-85M. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSmWE-LNuKgZfPYVPWpq-UJx4ODev5x66u4LXcepODgscNsjLoE 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 A little something to shed some light on an obscure topic and get those AFV skin salivary glands working. I give you Russian WW II armor markings and unit insignia! http://www.wio.ru/tank/oz/oz-en.htm Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
76mm Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Have the devs said anything about partisans? I would guess they'd be in one of the Bagration modules? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Alte Fritz Posted January 7, 2013 Author Share Posted January 7, 2013 Have the devs said anything about partisans? I would guess they'd be in one of the Bagration modules? I think perhaps not initially since the early modules would need to concentrate on Heer, SS, RKKA and Guards Units. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Alte Fritz Posted January 7, 2013 Author Share Posted January 7, 2013 Well I cannot wait for one. Just got a new PC all specced up for the new game, so am ready to go. In the meantime it runs huge maps in CMx1 although without fog (since fog tables have died the detah with GPU manufacturers) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sequoia Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 According to some notes I have from my almost 40 year old Destruction of Army Group Center board game, there was also a German tank destroyer battalion, the 281st, that was present in the sector at the start equiped with Jdpz Vs. It strikes me that a whole battalion of Jdpz Vs in June '44 seems unlikely so perhaps it also had a mix of Jdpz Vs Jdpz IVs and Stugs but I've found no other reference to the unit. Anyway, as Jason mentioned there's no need to limit the game to what was present on June 22nd. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 I think perhaps not initially since the early modules would need to concentrate on Heer, SS, RKKA and Guards Units. However Partisans were included somewhat prominently in CMBB - they were present in the original stock batch of scenarios at least. Plus they were a significant factor so I bet we'll see them, though you do make a really good point about the SS, Guards, etc. Those will almost surely be done before the Partisans. Whether or not Hungarians, Italians, and Romanians will is a different story. Finns as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Sequoia - I find no Jagdpanthers in any such formation at the time of Bagration. There is a 281st StuG brigade, formed early 1944 and assigned to AG center, specifically VI Corps, 3rd Panzer Army, around Vitebsk, on June 1 1944. It had 29 StuG III in 3 batteries, 22 operational. At the start of July it again reports 29 StuG III, 27 operational, without it being clear whether it received any in the meantime. By September it is destroyed and sent to rear to form a cadre for a towed Panzerjaeger formation, number 1052. I find a couple of Nashorn formation in AG Center around the proper time, and some of those later transitioned to Jagdpanthers, but only toward the end of the year (November and December 1944), if not early 1945, and in many cases they were sent west at the same time they topped off their AFV count with the new and improved Jagdpanthers. 519th heavy Panzerjaeger had a full complement of Nashorns in June 1944 e.g., but by mid July it was reforming without vehicles. It got one company of Jagdpanthers but the other two had just StuGs, it didn't get them until August 1944, and then it was sent to the Hurtgen battle, and later to 15th Army. So I'm afraid the Germans don't get Jagdpanthers for Bagration. They get plenty of ordinary Panthers and some Tiger Is by the second or third week of the fighting, sent up from AG South - but in the theater initially it is nearly all StuGs, with a new Marders and Nashorns rounding out the mix, and like one Panzer division with a reduced complement of Panzer IV longs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Alte Fritz Posted February 13, 2013 Author Share Posted February 13, 2013 Same here JasonC, only Nashorns, nothing larger. So quite a limited mix of German armour for Bagration. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Alte Fritz Posted February 13, 2013 Author Share Posted February 13, 2013 Here is a quick question here for John Kettler and other Ostfront/GPW grogs. Over on the Axis History forum we have been trying to work out the establishment of the Soviet Mech Corps and have some confusion over the make up of the Mech Brigade and the Motor Rifle Battalion that made it up. There are details in the Red Army Handbook but not at the smaller unit level, giving numbers of officers, NCOs, Men, personal weapons and company, platoon, section structure. Can anyone help with the shtat for 010/420 Mechanised Brigade (Feb 1943) or 010/370 Mechanised Bde (Sept 1942) and the Motor Rifle Battalion. I reckon it has 4 rifle sections of 9 men in 3 platoons (40 men) and an MG section (2 guns) and 3 companies (124). Any ideas? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MajorJerkov Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Ive read most of the thread, but I dont see why they are doing it out of order. Could someone enlighten me? Not that I mind so much, I just want some eastfront action. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenris Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 My guess is most of the '44 German units are already modeled for the other titles... Doing say '41 would require new models for almost everything. Same reason that a modern EF game is on the cards, once they do the terrain for Bagration it can be used in the modern title with reskinned CMSF units. That's my guess, YMMV. -Fenris 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MajorJerkov Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Makes sense. I guess the quicker the EF game the better. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Here is a quick question here for John Kettler and other Ostfront/GPW grogs. Over on the Axis History forum we have been trying to work out the establishment of the Soviet Mech Corps and have some confusion over the make up of the Mech Brigade and the Motor Rifle Battalion that made it up. There are details in the Red Army Handbook but not at the smaller unit level, giving numbers of officers, NCOs, Men, personal weapons and company, platoon, section structure. Can anyone help with the shtat for 010/420 Mechanised Brigade (Feb 1943) or 010/370 Mechanised Bde (Sept 1942) and the Motor Rifle Battalion. I reckon it has 4 rifle sections of 9 men in 3 platoons (40 men) and an MG section (2 guns) and 3 companies (124). Any ideas? I've got all the Charles Sharpe TO&E series. Have you looked at them, or would you like me to dig them up? Ken 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadsword56 Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Since we're on the subject of East Front TO&Es, I'd be curious to know how far different the German and Soviet units and equipment would have been in Spring 1943 vs. the Bagration period? I realize that 1941 and 1942 would be too great a difference because those years were before the massive Soviet shakeups and equipment improvements that preceded the final capture of Kharkov (spring '43) and then Kursk (summer '43). But would Spring '43 be too far from Summer '44 to pull off using what's likely to be in the Bagration module we're going to get? Fore example, Would MK III tanks for the Germans be totally gone by summer of '44? It's always easier to modify the game OOBs to remove things, since we can't add anything new. So I'm just wondering how close a little subtraction tweaking could make the CM 1944 forces in the East come close to what would have been likely on a battlefield in Spring '43. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 I guess this is probably a dumb question but T-34/85s weren't that prevalent by Bagration right? Like it's not like we wont see 34/76's? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sequoia Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 I guess this is probably a dumb question but T-34/85s weren't that prevalent by Bagration right? Like it's not like we wont see 34/76's? Both T-34/85s and 76s in Bagration. Plus Shermans and IIRC Valentines. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Ooh the Valentines are a nice surprise for me. I thought they were only really around 42/43 No churchills then? or am I getting greedy? =P 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sequoia Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Sublime. Let me check my source to make sure I'm not lying to you about the Valentines. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanir Ausf B Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 But would Spring '43 be too far from Summer '44 to pull off using what's likely to be in the Bagration module we're going to get? Fore example, Would MK III tanks for the Germans be totally gone by summer of '44? There were 804 PzIIIs of all types "in inventory" on June 1, 1944 but I'm not sure how many still in service. On that date Panzer Abteilung 21 reported: 49 PzIV lang 4 PzIII lang 3 PzIII 75 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Sequ - you weren't lying about Valentines. They replaced T-70s as the lights in at least one tank corps, that worked with a cavalry mechanized group. The same tank corps used Sherman 75s in place of its T-34s, so it was practically all lend lease. Cavalry mech groups were typically formed around one tank or mech corps plus one or two cavalry corps, and meant to exploit after breakthroughs. The cavalry had good operational mobility through forested areas in the north, complementing the road mobility of the tank formations. This role put a premium on the tanks not breaking down even if out of contact with the rest of the Russian army for extended periods, and LL tanks were superior to Russian ones in that regard. The Valentine was kept in production in Canada specifically for Russian lend lease long after they stopped making them for the western allies, because the Russians like them so much. They loved the mechanical reliability and the level of armor protection, for so light a tank. They were not comparing them to T-34s but to T-60s early and T-70s from midwar on, and the Valentine stacks up pretty well against those. Not as fast, to be sure. But then once a T-70 breaks down it isn't very fast either... By 1944 the Russians were switching their T-70 chassis output to SU-76s. But they still took Valentines as lights... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Alte Fritz Posted February 14, 2013 Author Share Posted February 14, 2013 I've got all the Charles Sharpe TO&E series. Have you looked at them, or would you like me to dig them up? Ken Thanks Ken I have the ones in "Soviet Infantry Tactics" "Soviet Armour Tactics" and "School of Battle" but not the other ones, so it would be great if you could oblige. cheers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Der Alte Fritz Posted February 14, 2013 Author Share Posted February 14, 2013 Sublime. Let me check my source to make sure I'm not lying to you about the Valentines. No the Valentines equipped 3rd Belorussian Front in July 1944 with Mark IX and 6th Tank Army had some as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sequoia Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Thanks guys. I found my source. It was Zaloga in his Osprey book, but the reference is rather vague with him saying only the Valentines were used for recon. Your info adds much detail. I should have also mentioned there were JS-IIs. Zaloga says 4 regiments totaling about 85. Besides that plenty of SU-76s and a fair number of SU-152s. On the German side, Dunn in Soviet Blitzkrieg says the Germans had some Ferdinands. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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