Ersatz Division question

[JohanIV]

By your reaction I assume that you feel offended. I apologize, I'm not an Anglophone and nuances easily escape me. It's a great and even addictive game and I enjoy it immensely.

This is p. 121 from Cron:

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MACHINE GUN FORMATIONS
1. Development under the Falkenhayn Army Command
The equipment of the Army with machine guns had been implemented shortly before the War. Each of the standing infantry regiments and Jäger battalions, with the exception of the 1st and 2nd Bavarian Jäger Battalions, had its machine gun company. In addition, there were fortress MG detachments. On the other hand, the planned equipment of the reserve infantry regiments that were to be formed, had not yet been carried out.
Thus, at the outbreak of war, in the Field Army, there were 219 infantry regi­ment MGKs (machine gun companies), 16 MGKs in the Jager battalions, 88 Re­serve MGKs in the Reserve infantry regiments, 11 MG detachments in the cavalry divisions and 43 Ersatz MG detachments in the Ersatz divisions.
The establishment of a MG company comprised 2 officers, 95 NCOs and other ranks, 45 horses, 6 MGs drawn by two horses, 1 reserve MG, 3 ammunition wagons, 1 field kitchen, together with, respectively, 1 store wagon, 1 fodder wagon and 1 baggage wagon.
Differing from this, the establishment of a MG detachment had, for the same number of officers, 115 NCOs and other ranks, 87 horses - including 27 riding horses - and 15 vehicles, including 6 MGs each drawn by 4 horses, 1 reserve MG and 3 small arms ammunition wagons.
It was self-evident that efforts would be made to make as valuable a weapon as the machine gun as widely available as possible. At first it was a matter of equipping those infantry regiments which had no machine guns to the same standard as the active infantry regiments. In addition to this there was the matter of equipping the 26 divisions which had been newly formed in 1914.
At first, to meet these requirements, there were available 5 Reserve MG de­tachments, 105 fortress MG detachments and 155 fortress MG detachments. It is true that the fortress formations would only be free as soon as there was no longer any threat to the fortress. Therefore it proved necessary to form many new units. In this connection consideration was given to reinforcing the infantry regiments above the machine gun strength which had hitherto been the norm.
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I The Inf. Training Regt possessed 2 MGKs.____[maybe Lehr? JIV]
2 Bav. Jäger Batts 1 and 2 had no MGK.
3 25 Res. Inf. Regts had not yet been provided with machine guns.
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Please note that the OOB in appendix I represents formations as of August 17th.

My take on the MG detachments is this: they were company-sized formations and as mobile as the cavalry MG Coys since they had 87 horses. I beg of you, please consider my suggestion.:bow: