Pz.III M Availability

[FlammenwerferX]

Found it as single vehicle in the Editor, but is it available in 'Formations'?  

thanks

[Ithikial_AU]

This was a fun one during Fire and Rubble's development. Panzer III's weren't widespread across the front line and didn't find themselves in the standard Panzer units after the Battle of Kursk, but the crisis for the Germans at the end of summer '44 meant anything with tracks and a gun was being hastily thrown into the line where possible. This included a number of PzIII's from training depots that were sent north to help try to break through to the trapped Army Group North in Operation Doppelkopf.

In game, the Panzer III models were available before this from CMFI and I was asking for the PzIII's to be included in some capacity into the module for my Battle of Tukums campaign to be more historically accurate. My campaign needed to to recreate SS Panzer Brigade Gross, which was changing it's tank makeup daily at times as it tried break the Soviet lines in the Baltics. BF created the Panzer Company (adhoc) formation, a '44 and a '45 variant. These were to help scenario designers create 'alarm units' or similar. Somewhat similar to the shattered infantry formations that were included in CMFB - the "Straggler Group". Believe the date is the determining factor for which PzIII variants are available so play around with the dates to find the "M". You can purchase it and then reset the date back to what you are trying to design for.

Hope this helps.

[kohlenklau]

According to the CMRT Fire & Rubble pdf manual (in the main folder if you want to check it out upon occasion), page 15 says...

Panzer IIIM (late)
Later Panzer III variants were equipped with longer-barreled KwK39 L/60s, added up to 57 mm of armor to the turret and spaced armor on the superstructure front and gun mantlet.
Available beginning............January 1945 (Germany region only)
Formations equipped........ Panzer company (ad hoc)