Barbarossa PBEM campaing

[seabolt]

-I suggest that the battles should be relatively smallish in order for the campaign to proceed in good order.

I agree that keeping the battles smaller will help move things forward...and also that a referee might come in handy.

I'd third that suggestion. Dividing by 3 would be unworkable. At a minimum, I would suggest dividing by 9, such that a battalion with attachments represents a real world division.

For instance, a mid-war panzergrenadier division scaled by 9 would fit into a nice 26-unit scheme as such:

A: HQ
B: Armored recon platoon
C-G: Pzgrndr company
H-L: Truck infantry company
M-Q: Truck infantry company
R: Armored engineer platoon
S-V: Panzer company
W: Jagdpanzer or StuG platoon
X: SP-AA platoon
Y: 4 105mm artillery tubes, on or offboard
Z: 2 150mm artillery tubes, on or offboard

That's a *big* force for SPWW2 (though with far less artillery than we usually deploy :whis:) and it's only a single division divided by 9. IIRC, Von Rundstedt had 60-odd divisions in Army Group South alone.

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