Question about Kursk OOB

[rzhev42]

Well for all the factors about artillery I reckon the Soviets in the game are at about half strength.
I don't have the exact figures to hand at the moment, but I was shocked when I did at the discrepency in the game to the OOB's I have seen.
This was the time when soviet artillery was really beggining to stack up lots of tubes to a kilometer.

What you are forgetting about as far as the artillery numbers go, is that the number of tubes in the rifle regiments are factored into the hard and soft factors of the regiment. A typical RR at this time had 27 82mm mortars, 6 120mm mortars, 4 76mm guns and 6 45mm AT guns. This totals 43 tubes/Regt and 129 tubes/Div.

Typically in books like Glantz's "Kursk" the number of artillery tubes would include divisional and regimental tubes except for the smaller 50mm mortars. So these regimental numbers would have to be added into the total guns shown in the OOB to arrive at the numbers shown in the book.

All of the Army artillery units as shown in the BSSA, the official Soviet OOB, are included in the game OOB. In addition they are all shown at full streenght, which is very debatable. Also divisional artillery is include except for the divisional AA guns which where left out intentionally.

All that said if you feel that there are missing artillery units, or the the TO&E of particular units are incorrect then please send us the info to look at. I never consider an OOB to be complete. In fact Glenn usually has to pry it from my hands so we can finish a game . Kursk was done awhile ago and my research collection has grown since them.

Michael Avanzini