1201_01a Close Call at Kubinka HTH

[Plain Ian]

Sorry no turn so I'll just haver on a bit about alt changes. 



I’ll just make a few general comments, none of them should be taken as authoritative.

German:  the German Armoured Cars in the Aufk. Abteillung has clearly been downgraded or corrected in alt. Its Hard factor in Standard was the same as the Pz 38 in the Panzer Bn which did seem a bit strange?  Its now downgraded to one third. It has however maintained its Soft factor, in fact its slightly increased.

The Pz 38 which was armed with a 37mm and the 37 mm AT unit have both been factored down in terms of Hard attack and Soft attack. I’m not quite sure why the Pz 38 is showing as Towed Guns instead of a Hard Target in the Standard scenario?? Mistake?

Pz Jag Abt 3 is the A/T unit for 3rd Motorised.  Its listed as a Mixed AT unit? I’m not sure what weapons it would have had in December 1941 but the alt changes to the factors show that it was clearly better against personnel rather than AFV’s.

Russian: The T-60 unit (2-22nd) has lost out a bit in the new alt scenarios. Its higher Soft factor has now been reduced below the BT-5. The BT-5 I think was armed with a 45mm which is why its factors are identical to the 878th AT unit. I’m not sure what the T-60 was armed with?

Biggest surprise is the 610th AT Rgt which is armed with the 85mm. It definitely looks like an 85mm AT gun now although I see it doesn’t merit a 2 hex range for its hard attack?

Do these changes help the Germans? I’m not sure?

The Pz38/37mm is now twice as good (6 v 3) as the BT-5/45mm in hard attack. It was 12 v 8 so 1.5 times better. BUT the Pz38 defense strength has now been dialled down from 9 to 5. The BT-5 has been kept at 4. I think this is fair as both were probably similarly armoured?

I’ve looked at the Manual and Hard attack versus Defense is the key so possibly it’s lessened the chances?

Pz38 v BT-5 standard = 12 v 4      BT-5 v Pz38 standard = 8 v 9
Pz38 v BT-5 alt = 6 v 4      BT-5 v Pz38 alt = 3 v 5

I’ll leave this for the purists.