The Competition & Teaser Thread

[rzhev42]

I thought we would share a little info on the PB Order of Battle. The editor is very similar to the PzC OOB editor, but will breakdown into platoons/sections.

Since we know there are Germans in the game lets look at the German OOB. All German units are based on there period KstN's.

For instance:
KstN 1114 - Motorized Infantry Company
or for the Motorized Heavy Company
KstN 1122a - Motorized Heavy Company Pak zug
KstN 1123 - Motorized Heavy Co leIG zug
KstN 1124 - Motorized Heavy Co Pionier zug
KstN 1126 - Mortorized Heavy Co Granatwerfer zug
KstN 1127 - Mototrized Heavy Co Pzjag gruppe (sPzB 41)

See image below in which I have opened up the 1./ Motorized Infantry Company and the 4./ Motorized Heavy Company:



Now of course this is the optimum TO&E for the unit. few units had all of the components.

Now since the Division has all of its various component parts you can truly assign tasks to your units. Say the task is for an infantry battalion to capture a village. You can reinforce that battalion with say a company of pioniers and a battery of StuGs. Maybe after the town is capture reinforce if with a PAK company to help defend against a counterattack.

Or maybe a reconnaissance in force with the Aufk Battalion reinforced with a self-propelled PAK company and a Motorized Pionier Company

Working with the KstN's you have all the building blocks for the Divisions but that is only half of the story. You also need to have a picture of the Divisions around the time of the battle to see the actual TO&E at that time. Fortunately many of these are available in the "Captured Record Archives".

And of course having this OOB makes it easy to create your own scenarios within the battle time frame as even with 60+ scenarios we still can only capture so much of the battle.

Michael