Point Values

[Huib Versloot]

You bring up the Volksgrenadiers? Remember they even struck fear into battlehardened Soviet troops when well armed/supplied with the Panzerfaust. And, many were equipped with automatic submachine guns which made them more powerful defenders in built up areas?
When they are the last best hope for Germany's defense they would have more value than the kids and old men they actually were?
Ed

Actually Volksgrenadier is a just different name for the same old German infantry soldier. All German units, also Fallschirmjäger and other units that were not renamed to "Volksgrenadiers" got a certain allocation of of Stg44 rifles and Panzerfausts, not only Volksgrenadier divisions. For example the 12th Infantry division had already lost most of their Sturmgewehre in their fruitless attacks on Schevenhuette, even before the division was renamed to 12th Volksgrenadier Division in Dec 1944. The lost Stg44's were replaced with K98 rifles.
Perhaps the ORG editor should have Stg44 Platoons that you can mix in the divisions instead of calling them Volksgrenadier, which is just a name and not telling anything about the weapon. Or a certain amount of Stg44 rifles and Panzerfausts should be abstractly represented in late war German infantry units (slightly more effective short range fire and increased assault rates.)
Another example: German late war Bicycle troops: don't have Panzerfausts in the game. I don't know why, but it is certainly not the way it should be. They are just normal German infantry who would have had a rifle or a stg44 and a couple of Panzerfausts.... and a bicycle stolen in Holland.

Huib