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Good morning everyone. Let me try to catch up on replies.
@jamesevans140 – For future however it is pointless stating to me military terms …
Sorry to hear that. There’s not much else I can say here. Moving on to the text thing …
@jamesevans140 – @piers – @yavasa – German cavalry: Indeed I was looking at this, hoping to include them somewhere in this campaign. While my research is far from comprehensive, on the operational /maneuver level for Poland I only found one cavalry brigade (1st Brigade under General Feldt, part of Third Army’s reserve in Army Group North).
On the tactical level I’m finding more. Each infantry regiment even in First Wave divisions had a platoon / section, presumably for reconnaissance purposes. More meaningfully, each infantry division was supposed to have a company of cavalry along with bicycles as part of its reconnaissance battalion, along with a small battery of 3.7mm ATGs and 7.5 cm IGs and even a platoon of lower-grade armored cars like Kfz-13s and SdKfz-231s. Again, this is 1st Wave, in lower wave divisions I would assume this level of support equipment would fall off sharply.
In any event, I’m seeing German cavalry primarily deployed in a reconnaissance role (exception being Feldt’s 1st Cavalry Brigade).
But as mentioned before, these PL scenarios have been admittedly “cherry picked” to include the most possible mechanized / armored formations, so German infantry divisions (and thus the cavalry component units) haven’t been included so far.
Sources:
- Dr. Leo Niehorster – niehorster.orbat.com
- Panzer Truppen : The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany’s Tank Force 1933-1942 by Thomas Lentz
- The German Order of Battle – Infantry in World War II by George F. Nafziger
Platoon-based approximation of the OOB of German 1939 Cavalry Brigade:
German 1st Wave Division, to include Cavalry Company in the Reconaissance Regiment:
German “cavalry” per Infantry Regiment:
