Ersatz Division question

[JohanIV]

Indeed, I had to get a German copy of Cron because the English translation is HORRIBLE. My English copy, which is around here somewhere, has pencil marks throughout. Mass confusion.

True, an entire sentence in the paragraph concerning active divisions rather obviously refers to reserve divisions. My theory is that the use of sections in the OOB for the Ersatz divisions are incorrectly translated and should be detachments. The number of detachments in the Ersatz divisions on p 121 are the same as the number of sections in the OOB in Appendix I.

What I meant was, the MG units already have horses factored into them, they all had horses. This was true for all armies, they had horses and wagons to pull the MGs around, they didn't carry a hundred pound machine gun across France.

Certainly.

Where I draw then line is with cavalry formation MG detachments/companies/section, where I do give them a speed of 4 instead of 3.

Please look at page 121 paragraph 2 again. The MG detachments in the Ersatz divisions are the same as those of the cavalry divisions. We are not talking about three TOEs, just two.

If I am wrong about that and the German Army was unique here from others, then I am open to further information. I do have Cron and have read it quite extensively cover to cover during the making of F14 however. ;) I just think that there is a fine line here between having horses and being able to move around quickly as if you were limbered up or packed on horses. I just don't see a historical unique strength here for the Germans.

Some claim that the Germans carried their MGs tactically to bound forward, but that may be on a level so low that it shouldn't be represented in the game.

Once again, I want to say that this game is addictive.