Soviet Rifle Division TOEs

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Sources:
Zaloga & Ness, 2009, Companion to the Red Army
http://www.rkka.ru/org/str/sd-change.htm
http://niehorster.org/012_ussr/__stavka.htm
BArch, many different Intel folders directly or indirectly used: (RH 2/____) 1330, 1925, 2515-2530, 2689, 2695-2696, 2713 - used/shown documents have the folder in their name.
+ see links inside Posts



Content:
04/1941
08/1941
12/1941
03/1942
07/1942
08/1942
12/1942
06/1943
08/1943 - REDUCED STRENGTH + 12/1943
06/1944
12/1944 + 1945

Issues to be solved:

Ampoulets are not available in game, some TOEs have 18 of those. Following is a calculation on how the replacement may look like:

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Flamethrowers:
08/1941 There is a contradiction in the sources, one saying that it started with Regimental Flamethrowers which were then combined into Divisional Flamethrowers, while other source cites an amendment being to introduce the Flamethrowers to the Regiment (it does not specify if this was "additionally" or intended as replacement).

The general Setup of Flamethrowers as part of the chemical units seems to largely/always been the Platoon with a 3 Squad Setup of 11Men each, the Platoon having 30 Flamethrowers and ~37-38Men in total.

Recon Squads:
Numbers, sizes, compositions. May need to first work through all the other Divisional and SU types.
RDs: 11Men Foot Recon
RDs: 7Men Horse Recon


Sapper Squads:
Numbers, sizes, compositions. May need to first work through all the other Divisional and SU types.
RDs: often smaller than 10Men, 7-9Men.
→ need to find out where the 10 Men labor squad is related to.
→ Sappers are often way to weak (equipment wise) by using the simple 10Men 10xRifles Labor Squad

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04/1941

• Regular Shtat No. 04/400-417 of 05.04.1941 NH or nwtele or rkka
  
  
  
• Guards
  No Guards TOE available (since no Guards units)
  

As mentioned further down in the 08/1941 TOE, here already 6 Quad AAMG were present in the Regimental TOEs. Giving 18x in the Regiments. Overall even 24, but for some reason some sources give only 15. The totals remain the same tho, always giving a total of 33 AAMGs (Quad+DShK).
The math exactly works out when simply mixing up the AAMGs with one another (e.g. 3x6=18 and 3x3+2+3+1=15), so I assume it's an translation related error. Russian sites and the German intel give the 24Quad+9DShK while english sources like the CttRA give the 15Quad+18DShK.
It's also possible it's related to some amendment in June 41 or so...but the more likely situation is a confusion of the AAMG types I'd say.

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08/1941

• Regular Shtat No. 04/600-616 of 29.07.1941 nwtele
  
  
  
• Guards
  +???
  Nothing specific, one could use the "larger" version with more Mortars for Guards. But if the 82mm mortars are msising this amy actually make Guards worse/wasteful.
  

There are some contradictions to be found, especially considering the Flamethrowers.
The initial Mortars werer educed and it seems later they were increased again, I am not 100% sure when this increase happened, it looks as if it was August but it may also be 12/1941 ...so was supposed to be applied to Divisions which remainded at this 600-series TOE and not change to the new 750-series TOEs I'd assume.
The 18xSP AAMG seems clear from the sources. Not sure how they were completely forgot ingame and even reduced to 15 n the initial TOE?! Each Regiment always had 6 Quad AAMG, so 18 per Division.
The PTRD is little weird, probably best to leave it out (but then also remove its manpower) and start using it 12/1941 when the Production went up.
Further there is mentioning that with this TOE the first SMG Companies inside Regiments were supposedly added already(?) but seems like if, then only to newly created Regiments.

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12/1941

• Regular Shtat No. 04/750-769 of 06.12.1941 nwtele
  
  
  
• Guards
  Some Guards seem to still have been on the 400series 04/1941 TOE.
  

It is noted that only a few Divisions ever received the Rockets. So the Manpower must be substracted.
Additionally there were optional additional 18x120mm Mortars possible. Looking the ingame values for Trucks (only around 60 while IRL it was 220+ and 152 without the rockets+120mm "mot.") it does not add up using the "Mot." for calculations as the standard, so the towed (horsed) 120mm mortar manpower stays and the "mot." is substracted. This gives 11907-191-213=11503Men in total.
One could add either or both for Guards TOEs, but that'd be nothing "official".

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03/1942

• Regular Shtat No. 04/200-216 of 18.03.1942 NH or nwtele
  
  
  
• Guards
  Each Guards Regiment had 2 SMG Companies instead of 1 SMG Company in the regular division.
  Each SMG Company is 100Men → 9Squads of 10Men with 10SMGs.
  

Should be about correct, slight changes to Squads may be needed.

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07/1942
This is essentially the over time upgraded TOE from 03/1942. German Intel always notes the this TOE most likely did not get into effect seriously/often, since new TOE came out End of July. But some Sources note that several Divisions remained on the 200Series (03/1942 + this 07/1942), some even at the 12/1941 TOE 750s series.

• Regular Shtat No. 04/200-216 of July 1942 (Updated 03/1942 - version)
  
  
  
• Guards
  Each Guards Regiment had 2 SMG Companies instead of 1 SMG Company in the regular division.
  Each SMG Company is 100Men → 9Squads of 10Men with 10SMGs.
  

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08/1942
These TOEs are available. Latest contains changes up until 22nd of October 1942.
The issue is that in later reports from ~October 1943, the TOE is re-calculated to have +18Pak and +27MMGs.
This makes per Regiment +6Pak and +9MMGs. This exactly matches what was changed in the Regimental DECEMBER 1942 TOE 04/551. My assumption is that all the larger numbers calculations (e.g. using +18Pak +27MMG) are based on using this TOE (maybe for Divisions which lept the 300series and only got the 551 Regiment added to them), or there was already a change to the old TOE (300 series) between 23rd of October 1942 and 10th December 1942 (when the new TOE using the 550 and 500 series was done).
EDIT: Found reference to the order for the addition of the 18x45mm Pak on October 18th 1942 published it appears!
It contains also a mentioning about restructuring the HMGs, not sure if this lead to "double-counting" some.

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• Regular Shtat No. 04/300-316 of 28.07.1942 nwtele
  
  
  
• Guards
  No definitive Info till now...
  
  Only a "13000" with questionmarks in intel reports. It seems that (some) Guard units were left at the previous TOE 200series with changes till 07/1942 (which had added lots of Mortar quantity) until in December when the first "real" Guards TOE was published.
  
  

Almost finished, only Squads may need some changes (like there were some Sapper Squads removed in this TOE but in game the number does not change).
Final Manpower and everythign marked green should be correct (assuming that as pointed out the calculations using more firepower and more manpower are later done calculations in/during 1943.

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12/1942 (first time official GUARDs TOE?)

• Regular Shtat No 04/550-562 of 10.12.1942 NH or nwtele
  Here there are contraticting infos on whether each Regiment had 6 or 7 120mm Mortars.
  
  
  
• Guards Shtat No. 04/500-512 of 10.12.1942 nwtele
  
  

Sappers are not 100% when/if they became 3Companies. CttRA states 3Co and mroe Manpower in the Battalion, Niehorster lists the Battalion in 1944 as having 3 Companies with 3 Squads each BUT LEAVING OUT THE PLATOONS! So rly weird. As a compromise until further info, using 18 for Regular and 24 for Guards could be possible.

DShK are nowhere mentioned at all. So they as usually only re-appeard in TOEs sometime in 1944 again I'd say.

The Regular's 120mm Mortars are odd, I'd more lean towards the 18 Mortars from the sources seen and increase to 21 in 06/1943. Many Divisions kept the 300series of 08/1942 TOE at least till 04/1943 it appears and therefore those ran with the 18x120mm Mortars anyways. Not sure if there is a 100% truth here, would need to find the actual/whole TOE from December to be sure where this 18 vs 21 issue originates from or is related to.

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06/1943 (missing GUARDS Update)
During this time the 12/1942 TOE was slightly adjusted, it appears here officially the number of MP was increased with order on 25th of May 1943 from "1450 to 2110" (German Intel: BArch RH 2/1330 pic 71). But the actual 12/1942 TOE only had 727 MP, so there must have been an official increase beforehand already. Other source cites 1048MP in July 1943.
The Additional MPs were used to equip one Platoon of each Company fully with MPs. Some kept their LMGs, others didn't.

• Regular
  Some in early 1943 were still on the 08/1942 300series TOEs.
  
  
• Guards
  MISSING - There may have not been an official new release, so I assume that's why it is "missing" in game. Not sure about the SMG increases, wouldn't make sense to buff regular Divisions why keeping the Guards with less SMGs, huh?
  

Here the SMG situation needs to be solved (for both types of TOEs) I'd say. See the Thread on Soviet SMG Squads for more info.

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08/1943 - REDUCED STRENGTH

• Regular same Shtat numbers as regular TOE it seems, 22.08.1943
  Major TOE that changed was the Regiment Shtat No. 551 of 22.08.1943 which I posted here already.
  Those TOE(s) further changed during 1944 and several different proposals were made which TOE to use at which manpower strength of a Division.
  I'll ignore all Reduced stuff, since no Reduced strength Divisonal TOEs are used in GC41 afaik and further the issue lies in Russians massively changing Squad compositions (for whatever reason) when changing to all the different reduced strength TOEs.
  
• Guards
  Not sure if there were any reduced Guards TOEs (unlikely (?)), maybe certain Front HQ's created some, but wouldn't make sense generally/game-wise anyways.
  
  

12/1943 (does not exist - only GUARDs it seems - if needed)

• Regular
  
  
  
• Guards
  New TOE No. 04/569 for a new (Guards) Anti-Tank Battalion as seen in this TOE from January 1944, where the 76mm Pak is completely replaced by 45mm. But in February already some 76mm Pak were available (4/12). But I guess the addition of thos Guns to the 06/1944 is sufficient.
  
  

During this time the 76mm Pak was added to the TOE but this may not rly have had an effect due to focusing on equipping the separate AT formations.

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06/1944
Here the reduction from the 10Men [10SMG] SMG Squad to 9Men [9SMG] seems to have taken place (if at all), at least it is occasionally portrayed like this, altough 100Men per Company remained the same. maybe the Soviets finally decided to get proper "runners" positions set up?! Or those dudes became Snipers?

• Regular NH
  
  
  
• Guards NH
  Changes which may impact Manpower:
  12 new 76mm AT Guns (replacement for 45mm) in the AT "Battalion"
  12 new 57mm AT Guns (replacement for 45mm)
  - all 50mm Mortars scrapped
  + 1 Company of Sappers (9Sq IRL, in game 10Men Sqs it is +6Sq → so most likely 18 to 24 Squads total)
  - 7PTRD per Battalion (eventually) to have same PTRD numbers as regular Div.
  
  

Here supposedly both get the DShK AAMG back 18x (supposedly all Truck-Mounted(?)). Further the Guards may also have gottena additional 37mm AA (Niehorster gives 6x4=24?!), in game the 37mm Flak only arrives 12/1944 and only lists 12.

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The 18 LMG per Company get reduced to 12 (so removing the second LMG in 50% of the Squads). The issue here lies in the fact that (I think) not rly a TOE was proposed, in 15.07.1943 there must have been a release of a regular RD TOE, maybe this re-defines Squad composition, otherwise I only know the reduced TOE from autumn 1943.

TOEs seem to have lost the 50mm Mortars (not 100% clear when exactly, it's stated to be in late 1943). Like here is an example of a Guards unit in 10/1944 still having 54 50mm Mortars "authorized" but 0 in use. Those may need to be accounted for in Manpower if it gets to (hopefully) "exact" figures.
German intel concludes that from ~May 1944 50mm Mortars were no longer used.
Then multiple of such reports/orders from early (~February) 1944 exist to no longer use those Mortars. Not found the "official order" from STAVKA/Stalin (if it exists) on that question.

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HMGs, for the Guards Niehorster gives a reduction from 12 per Battalion to 9, not sure about that. In December both supposedly get to 160+ HMGs again...suspicious. The Reduced Strength TOEs state things like the removal of one Platoon of HMGs (CttRA), it's possible this got confused?!.

PTRDs, it is possible that the Battalion's Company of the Guards (with 16) was reduce to 9 (so as the regular TOE). Not 100% sure.

SMG numbers sometimes "needs" as ~1050 while "have" sometimes like ~1250 for regular Divisions. ...this may also all be related to the many different ways of "reduced" TOEs.

SMGs, I'll maintain the SMG Squad (+) 9Men with 1LMG+8SMG to have the clearer distinction bewteen SMG Companies and Line Infantry. The December TOEs end with 337 LMGs, which matches somewhat perfect with 324 Line Infantry Squads with 1LMG + some used Scout'ish or Training...

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12/1944
Generally, it seems like those changes never rly take effect in Europe before Berlin fell, CttRA cites as it only being used in the Far East later on. This may have been already accounted for for only doing slight adjutsments to the Regular TOE by the Devs.

• Regular Shtat No. 05/40 of 18.12.1944 nwtele
  Would get an additional second SMG Company per Regiment (total 27 Squads, 9 or 10Men each), brining it on equal grounds on that with the Guards TOE.
  
  The new regular TOE here has some oddities, like more than 3k SMGs, 1k more men than the old Guards TOE.
  
  1945 Examples, 18.03, 12.04, 19.04 Artillery reports/TOEs, include authorized figures. Looks like nothing changed after 06/1944. So no increase +4x76mm Artillery and no change towards the proposed December TOE.
  
  
• Guards nwtele
  In Game it appears this TOE gets a third SMG Company per Regiment (or a new SMG Battalion) with 27 Squads, I did not find evidence so far on that taking place (only the Regular TOE would get +3SMG Companies is mentioned). So this may be an error in current TOEs.
  Further on that issue, suddenly ALL SMG Squads receive a LMG, I suggest using the SMG (+) from the getgo for line infantry SMG Squads and stick to the normal 10Men Squads for the "additional SMG formations".
  
  Received additional formation SU-76s (16, in game its only 12?). Supposedly this formation was intende to replace the 12x76mm ZiS-3 AT Guns in the AT-Battalion.
  
  AA here the Guards receives 12x37mm AA.
  
  
  

Here (in October 1944) it appears more evident, that the increase of the Divisional Sapper Battalion from 2 to 3 Companies took place (CttRA). This seems to been applied to both types of TOEs. So either the 06/1944 or this 12/1944 may need those additional Sappers.




05 or 06/1945 (does not exist)

• Regular nwtele
  Supposedly here the Regular Division would also get the SU-76s. But it is unclear if ever properly executed before war ended.
  
  
• Guards
  Both Regular and Guards supposedly were built the same.
  
  

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