B'44....Heavy Tank Bn. 506...is it in the game?

[Glenn Saunders]

You will find the 506 Schw. Panzer Bn attached to 6th Army and entering on the 20th in most scenarios, which would be historicly accurate. I do not know if they enter in a depleted status to reflect rail transport and mechanical difficulties.

I believe our Max Strength for the unit is not the absolute TO&E Strength so if it enters at 100% it may reflect this Mean strength as many units - particularly the heavy one had vehicles out of service and if we set the OOB strength to be the true TO&E value then the German Replacement value - which is ONE Pdt % (which is 1%) for the side would or could bring the unit up to a overstrength position.

In any case we can't accurately reflect all the the minor ups and downs of unit tank strength - but we have a newer value now inthe OOB that can be assigned to certain units and we used that in Budapest with the s.Pz.Abt.503 - account for their record of higher than average ability to put more Tanks in service after battle damage, altoght I can't say for sure where this info came from. But we didn't have this feature when Bulge was creeated.

Glenn