The Competition & Teaser Thread

[rzhev42]

It looks great!

A question first: GD's Grenadier armoured battalion doesn't have an MG company? Or is it abstracted into the halftracks for the MG platoons?

There's a typo here and there, not sure if those could still be corrected or if the file has already been sent to the publisher.

Page 1: it could be the font, but it looks like there are two spaces between "battle" and "charts"

Page 2: the abbreviation for the formation the Cossacks belong to is PzC instead of PzK.

Page 3: it says "18th Tank" instead of "18th Tank Corps".

Various: the German word for battalion is "bataillon". For consistency, you could consider changing "battalion" to "bataillon" for German designations or "kompanie" into "company" for English designations for non-specialized units.

Various: the German word for "armored" (for the mechanized infantry) is "gepanzert" (I believe "spw" is a late war designation, I'd have to check).

Various: "Aufklarung" should either be "Aufklaerung" or with an Umlaut on the second a.

Various: "Fusilier" should be "Fuesilier" or an Umlaut on the u.

Various: "Spah" should be "Spaeh" or have an Umlaut on the a.

The variant with an e after the letter that should have the Umlaut looks ugly, though it is grammatically correct.

Variant: technically, there should be a dot after the numerical indication of the company or battery for the Germans.

Various: "Squadron" is always spelled "squardron" for some reason. The German word is "Schwadron". I'm not entirely sure which units used "Schwadron" and which units used "Kompanie". Theoretically, if a unit came from a former cavalry regiment, it would be "Schwadron" but re-designations might have changed that. The aufklaerungs abteilung for the 7th Panzer was a renamed kradschuetzen battalion and had companies as far as I know.

LSSAH had companies for their aufklaerung abteilung in 1943 as far as I know.

Various: "Sturmgeschutz" should be "Sturmgeschuetz" or an Umlaut on the second u. Or simply "StuG". It is also misspelled on page 27.

Page 8: the divisional HQ of the 167th isn't indicated as such.

Page 9: the 14th company is a Panzerjaeger (Umlaut on the second a) company, not a Pak company. Similarly, GD and LSSAH also have a Panzerjaeger company as its 17th/18th company. The 5th company of LSSAH's aufklaerungsabteilung is also a Panzerjaeger company. Pak or Pak Sfl indicates the equipment type, not the unit type in this case.

Page 18: Maybe Stab Panzer Zug instead of Panzer Zug?

Page 19-21: the way the companies are numbered doesn't match how it's done elsewhere.

Page 21: the Cossacks have no description, but that isn't necessary as their size is indicated in their name.

Page 27: Armored Pionier Platoon> Panzerpionier Zug.

Page 28: typo in "batterie" for the 4th. Also: Sfl quad, if you want to give it a special indication, would be Sfl vierling. However, Sfl is good by itself, as it just means self propelled and I'm not entirely sure if the battalion TOE/OOB indicates a special designation.

Page 43: the example SU regiment is called the 1440th, but the HQ is for the 1461st.

ComradeP,

Thanks for the thorough review! I tend to not be able to review my own work that well.

I also tend to mix my German and English terms so I use Kompanie and Batterie and then use Battalion and Armored. Thanks for pointing this out. I have now changed everything to the German terms to be consistent and I really do prefer to use them. Although everyone should be glad I do not use the Russian characters for their units!!

As far as the umlauts, I was having trouble getting the paint program we are using to save the files and make the JPGs when I placed the special character into the text. So I decided to use that spelling as I really hate to see the "e" added, like you said it looks ugly. That being said, I went back and figured out how to get this to work and have now added the umlauts to all the designations including the "ß" in Grossdeutschland.

As David said, only GD and LSSAH had the MG companies and not in the armored (gp) btls.

You are correct with calling the Aufk-Abt 1 LSSAH kompanies. I was rushing through this and just copied the text from GD sheet. I should have caught this. And I did have Squadron spelled wrong, although David said the extra r is correct. That must be one of those English vs American English things like Armour and Armor. I went back and checked all the Aufk-Abts as to which used Schwadron and which used Kompanies.

Well that was a bit of work to fix (about 5 hours worth). But it was well worth the effort. I'm sure that some other errors have crept into the changes, but I did review it. Thanks again for viewing it from the German point of view. I have also added the German terms Gepanzert, Vierling etc. into the Glossary for our English gamers who are unfamiliar with those terms.

Thanks for the compliments from everyone. 90% of the pictures are from the Battle of Kursk and I used a pictures relating to the units represented on the page. We do hope that you find this guide useful.

Next up, David will be posting a link to our Planning Maps document. These are daily situation maps and scenario location maps for July 4 to 12.

Michael