Ersatz Division question

[JohanIV]

It might be that this is a design decision that you may want to reconsider. On page 121 it's stated that the sections are actually detachments, who later on the page are TOE'd as having 6 MGs just like companies.

It would seem that the difference between detachments and companies is that detachments had more personnel (115) and more horses, thus being more mobiile.

Ed,
I notice the German Ersatz divisions have no machineguns. Cron and Nash state that the Brigade Ersatz battalions that comprised thes divisions had mg sections. Cron's english language version even allocates machine gun sections per Ersatz division, pp. 328-329.

Why did you decide to leave these out?

To answer the question though: All I saw was that the Ersatz divisions had "6 machine gun sections" in the whole division, not companies, sections.

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What I mean is, if there are "6 machine gun sections" in a German ersatz division, and knowing that a section is 2 MGs, it would mean that each Ersatz *brigade*, not battalion, would have a 2 MG (30 men) unit assigned to it.