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Germany's LAST offensive on the East front . . .?


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Originally posted by Andreas:

Funny, I think that's what happened in Real Life™, too :D Gamey bastards, the Soviets...

Silvio, I would have thought that at that stage most of the tanks would be Tiger II, not Tiger I?

Ripley gives the following strength on the move to Hungary:

I SS Panzerkorps

1. SS PD, 12. SS PD, 501. sSS PzAbt and 560. Schwere Panzerjägerabteilung

36 Tiger II

67 Panzer IV

85 Panther

51 Jagdpanzer IV

16 Jagdpanther

8 AA tanks

>150 HTs

II SS Panzerkorps

2. SS PD and 9. SS PD

65 Panther

45 Panzer IV

53 Stug III

German tank strength returns 'Spring Awakening' as of March 15 1945 operational in ( )'s:

I SS Panzerkorps:

1. SS PD:

- 29 (14) PzKpfw IV.

- 32 (18) PzKp[fw V.

- 18 (17) PzIV/70.

- 26 (7) StuG.

- 6 (3) Flakpz.

Total = 111 (59) tank/SP.

12. SS PD:

- 23 (10) PzKpfw IV.

- 24 (9) PzKpfw V.

- 30 (10) PzIV/70.

- 8 (2) Flakpz.

Total = 85 (31) tank/SP.

501. sSS PzAbt:

- 32 (8) PzKpfw VIB.

II SS Panzerkorps:

2. SS PD:

- 22 (14) PzKpfw IV.

- 27 (17) PzKpfw V.

- 18 (7) PzIV/70.

- 26 (7) StuG.

- 8 (4) Flakpz.

Total = 101 (49) tank/SP.

9. SS PD:

- 20 (11) PzKpfw IV.

- 35 (12) PzKpfw V.

- 22 (10) PzIV/70.

- 25 (11) StuG.

- 5 (3) Flakpz.

Total = 107 (47) tank/SP.

Also involved in SA was 16th SS PzG with 2nd Pz Army which had 62 (47) StuG as of March 15, & 23rd Pz Div reinforced 6th SS Pz Army on March 6, as of March 15 returned:

- 16 (6) PzKpfw IV.

- 33 (7) PzKpfw V.

- 8 (0) PzIV/70.

- 10 (7) StuG.

- 1 (0) Flakpz.

Total = 68 (20) tank/SP

1st SS Pz Korps Total = 196 (90) tank/SP.

2nd SS Pz Korps Total = 208 (96) tank/sp.

Combined SS Pz. Korps Total = 404 (186) tank/sp. as of March 15 1945.

In all around 540 tanks & SP were commited to SA as of March 6 1945.

Regards, John Waters

[ August 02, 2002, 12:04 AM: Message edited by: PzKpfw 1 ]

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