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Posted: **Fri Oct 21, 2011 5:33 pm**

Couple questions on Armored Car inventory for Wehrmacht. Not game changers, just curious for the devs.

1. Why no Panhard 178s? The Wehrmacht had quite a few for the '41 campaign, over 150 IIRC. And they liked them. They were kept in production for a time after June 1940.

2. Why no sdkfz 250/9, the Recon variant? I understand they were used alot in lieu of the 222 Armored Cars, which was found to have inadequate off-road performance for Russia. The 250/9 had the same 20mm turret, and was used alot in Recon Bns

(Or course, if the 222 was that bad, I wonder why the Soviets copied it for the BA-64?)

I realize you have to exclude alot of Halftrack variants as the Germans mounted almost everything on a halftrack, but I think the 250/9 was used fairly widely

Just curious

Posted: **Sun Oct 30, 2011 12:33 am**

It's easy enough to add new equipment, but some TOE's (mostly Panzer Division), become easily maxed out in terms of slots available for the various types of equipment.

From an old post I made:

Some other missing equipment I've noted after heavy research:

SdKfz-251/16 - flamethrower version, appears in '43 panzergrenadier formations.
SdKfz-250/9 - began replacing light armored cars in '43.
SdKfz-250/7 - 81mm equivalent to 251/2 in PzGren divs.
SdKfz-250/8 - 75mm IG equivalent to 251/9 in PzGren divs.
SdKfz-250/11 - 28mm PzB., equipped armored infantry Btls. in early 1942
PSW-204(f) - equipped 7. and 20. Panzer Division at start of Barbarossa
Cavalry Squad (-) - with no LMG, there is a late-war version, but no early war
Motorcycle MG Squad - we have Motorcycle Rifle Squads but not these
Bicycle Rifle Squad - we have every other mode of Rifle Squad transportation but these
Various captured Czech and French artillery - used in many Inf. Divisions

Also noticed Panzer IIc and early war armored cars are using the wrong main gun. Should be a KwK 30, not KwK 38.

No worries if there is no desire to add these...I realize some Panzer Divisions are almost out of slots

Let us start a grass-roots movement to get the number of slots increased![&o]

Posted: **Sun Oct 30, 2011 12:37 am**

ORIGINAL: TAIL_GUNNER

Let us start a grass-roots movement to get the number of slots increased![&o]

That's actually not a bad idea T_G. [;)] I wonder how difficult it would be to add extra slots?

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