Work in progress- 2.5km/hex, based on Luftwaffe maps from the 1940s. Tips?
When done (hopefully sometime this century)this project will depict the last battle(s) of the war in some detail. I have started work on the German side OOB, and found some sources for the Soviet side (still, the RKKA will be challenging to get right.)
Wow, that's intense. At that level of detail I don't envy the amount of research you'll have to do. Plus balancing the victory conditions will be an interesting challenge. But I certainly look forward to playing it!
The German OOB in progress runs to 217 pages in office so far. Most of it copy and paste, but it took me most of my vacation week this summer to (almost)finish it. Still have to add a load of stug units, any units that were raised after 1/3-45 plus the various weird and wonderful little tank units that were created from various training establishments. Then we will see if it fits into TOAW, and if the d**n thing is playable...[:D]
I think that after you have the OOB you should try to focus on the playability of the whole thing, for example dropping some small and pretty unuseful unit that can create some problem, and have a hard work in balancing the victory conditions.
It's a good idea, and surely I'm gonna follow up what came out of this
I have high hopes for 3.4. It might let me include smaller units, and still be playable. However, i do not plan on including anything smaller than a battalion. In general the scale will be regiments for the Germans, and divisions for the RKKA.
Here is the first part of the German OOB that I've finished. Yes, i know these units were a long way from Berlin...when i started this project i was ambitious. Still am, but we will see how much time I have to spend on this. Ultimately the southern part of the original scenario idea might have to wait until after I've finished a smaller version covering just Berlin. But still, in the end i would like to have a version covering as much as i can fit of the last battles all on one map.
I hope this list comes out legible...
If you have any tips or comments about the OOB, please fire away. I need all the help i can get.
Army Group Army Corps Division Brigade Regiment Battalion Company Commander Notes
Army Group South Otto Wöhler
Heeresgruppen Nachr. Rgt 530
232 Pz. Div Tatra Hans-Ulrich Back
Pz. Grn. Rgt. 101
Pz. Grn. Rgt. 102
27th Hun. ID Gyözö Horváth Need info on what regiments were attached!
153rd Gren. Div NO INFO
Grn. Rgt. 715
Grn. Rgt. 716
Grn. Rgt. 717
Fusilier Btl. 153
Pio. Btl. 153
Art. Rgt. 453
Szent-Laszlo Hun. Div. Zoltán Szügyi
1.( Parachute) Rgt.
2. (Infantry) Rgt.
3. (Fortress Rgt.
1. Art. Btl.
6. Art. Btl.
9. Art. Btl.
76. Art. Btl.
1. Rocket Btl.
20. Assault Gun Btl.
Szt. Laszlo Combat Engineer Btl. MOTORIZED
Szt. Laszlo Armoured Recon Btl.
44. Hoch-und Deutschmeister Hans-Günther von Rost
Grn. Rgt. 131
Grn. Rgt. 132
Grn. Rgt. Hoch und Deutschmeister
Art. Rgt. 96
Pion. Btl.80
Granatwerfer-Bataillon 44
Feldersatz-Bataillon Hoch- und Deutschmeister
1st LSSAH Otto Kumm
Inf.Rgt. 1 LSSAH
Inf.Rgt. 2 LSSAH
Panzer-Rgt. LSSAH
Art.Rgt. LSSAH
Sturmgesch.Abt. LSSAH
Pz.Jäg.Abt. LSSAH
Aufkl.Abt. LSSAH
Flak-Abt. LSSAH
Pion.Btl. LSSAH
12. SS-Panzer-Division Hitlerjugend Hugo Kraas
SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 25
SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 26
SS-Panzer Regiment 12
SS-Panzer Artillerie Regiment 12
SS-Kradschützen-Regiment 12
SS-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 12
SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 12
SS-Werfer-Abteilung 12
SS-Flak-Abteilung 12
SS-Pionier-Abteilung 12
SS-Feldgendarmerie-Kompanie/Trupp 12
37. SS-Freiwilligen-Kavallerie-Division Lützow Karl Gesele
SS-Kavallerie Regiment 92
SS-Kavallerie Regiment 93
SS-Artillerie-Abteilung 37 (two batteries with le.FH18 10,5cm)
SS-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 37
SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 37 (one company equipped with Hetzer)
SS-Pionier-Bataillion 37
Feldersatz-Bataillon 37
2nd Pz. Army General der Artillerie Maximilian de Angelis
Hoh. ArKo 305
Koruck 582
Sicherungs-Bataillone 222
Sicherungs-Bataillone 721
Sicherungs-Bataillone 722
Sicherungs-Bataillone 738
Sicherungs-Bataillone 787
Wach-Bataillon 508
LXVIII Corps General der Gebirgstruppen Rudolf Konrad
ArKo 168
Panzerspäh-Kompanie 468
13. Waffen-Gebirgs-Division der SS Handschar (kroatische Nr. 1) SS-Brigadeführer Desiderius Hampel
SS-Waffen-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment der SS 27
SS-Waffen-Gebirgsjäger-Regiment der SS 28
SS-Waffen-Artillerie-Regiment der SS 13
SS-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 13
SS-Aufklärungs-Abteilung (mot) 13
Waffen-Gebirgs-Pionier-Abteilung der SS 13
Waffen-Flak-Abteilung der SS 13
Kroatische SS-Radfahr-Bataillon
Kroatische SS-Kradschützen-Bataillon
SS-Feldersatz-Bataillon 13
SS-Kraftfahr-Lehr-Abteilung 13
The unit took on Germans from various smaller units in the Balkans and fought in Croatia and Hungary but was only brigade size.
71. Infanterie-Division Generalmajor Eberhard von Schuckmann
Grenadier-Regiment 191
Grenadier-Regiment 194
Grenadier-Regiment 211
Füsilier-Bataillon 171
Artillerie-Regiment 171
Pionier-Bataillon 171
Panzerjäger-Abteilung 171
Feldersatz-Bataillon 171
XXII Gebirgs Corps General der Gebirgstruppe Hubert Lanz
ArKo 422
Feldgendarmerie-Trupp a (mot.) 422
1. Volks-Gebirgs-Division Generalleutnant August Wittmann
Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 98
Gebirgsjäger-Regiment 99
Gebirgs-Artillerie-Regiment 79
Gebirgs-Panzerjäger-Abteilung 44
Gebirgsjäger-Bataillon 54
Gebirgs-Aufklärungs-Abteilung 54
Gebirgs-Pionier-Bataillon 54
Gebirgsjäger-Feld-Ersatz-Bataillon 54
118. Jäger-Division Generalmajor Hubert Lamey
Jäger-Regiment 738
Jäger-Regiment 750
Artillerie-Regiment 668
Aufklärungs-Abteilung 118
Panzerjäger-Abteilung 118
Pionier-Bataillon 118
This looks awesome already! I am attempting to mod the old Berlin scenario by Thomas Kolley, but it'll need a lot more work
That's where I started as well. In the end i decided it would be more fun to just make my own instead. I got rather frustrated trying to adjust the original map to match my idea of historicity.[8|]
Wow, Stettin is 9 hexes? How many hexes is Berlin???
I definitely think you should focus on a smaller scenario covering just the area around Berlin as you can always expand it later.
By the way, since you guys are obviously very familiar with the campaign, I read a while back that the Soviets took around 400,000 casualties during the "Battle of Berlin". How accurate is that figure? I'm sure it would at least partially depend on what time periods and areas of fighting are considered part of the "Battle of Berlin".
Most of my sources quote 304,887 killed, wounded or missing from the units directly participating in the battle of Berlin, along with 2156 tanks and SP guns,
1220 field guns and mortars, and 527 combat aircraft.
I haven't really gotten to Berlin yet, although i sketched some of it roughly, just for fun. I did about half that way before i started doing something constructive again. You can see part of it in the mini-map in the screen-shots. Rough guess is something between 30 and 40 hexes.
Slowly, if at all. I haven't had time to work on the map lately, but the OOB has gotten a few hours more attention. I have found a bunch of sources for the RKKA, but they are mostly in Russian, which means very slow progress. I can read the words, but i have to look most of them up. I'll try to post some progress later on today, or tomorrow.
Slowly, if at all. I haven't had time to work on the map lately, but the OOB has gotten a few hours more attention. I have found a bunch of sources for the RKKA, but they are mostly in Russian, which means very slow progress. I can read the words, but i have to look most of them up. I'll try to post some progress later on today, or tomorrow.
Thanks for showing interest!
There's an online translator for IE. Will translate automatically. Just right click on the page. It might be under accelerators. After right click it will show an option, 'Translate with live search'. I can't remember how I got it activated.
Thanks for the tip. Ill check it out.
Ive been using my wife and her father up till now[:D] .
They get kind of annoyed with all the military vocab, not to mention the fact that my father in law is rabidly anti-soviet, being Ukrainian.
Those super rivers are actually a series of little lakes connected by steams. Took me a while to decide how to portray them, and longer to get them on the map!
