6th PzD - OOB Question - Stalingrad

[Volcano Man]

I'm not sold. There were not a whole lot of StuG battalions and most of them can be accounted for. Why would a brand new battalion be formed according to a TOE which had already been discarded? It took the 6th Pz a month to get to s. Russia. So the 228th, once the orders had been issued for it's formation, lets just say on the very first day of november, had to assemble it's personnel and equipment, shake out it's command staff, familiarise itself with it's powerful new equipment, brief the crews on new tactics, provision itself, entrain, and chug all the way across to the easternmost extreme of Hitlers diminishing empire. It seems to me that this will take a little while.

This discussion is getting confusing because we don't seem to be putting the entire position in one post, rather we are spreading them out in comments.

Are you saying that you are not sold on the fact that the StuG.Abt.228 was there in December, or you are not sold on the idea that the 228 had <= 31 vehicles, thus, not more than one StuG.Abt? Or both? Just trying to clarify. :)