Question about Kursk OOB

[Steel God]

Part of the reason it's easier to document the Germans (and other western nations) is that the available records are simply better than available Soviet era records. HPS uses Glantz extensively in their Russian OOB construction, but not exclusively, and even his stuff changed in terms of accuracy over the years and as more and more data becomes available. Some erroneous numbers have been quoted so many times since the 1950s that they have become unquestioned and are probably wrong too.

And none of that is to say that the folks who are pointing out the difference between pointy end of the spear (what you see in game) and shaft end of the spear (the difference between game strength and paper strength), are wrong. That is also a very big part of the difference.

At the end of the day, HPS has since Smolensk 41 always made it clear that for every OOB source available there is also one that contradicts it, and they make the best choices they can regarding accuracy. But rather than debate customers over numbers they provide us the editors so we can "fix" the OOBs to what our source material says they should be should we so desire.