Reply To: 20mm WW2 Waffen SS Winter Infantry

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Sorry @piers i forgot to mention in my last reply that i totally agree with BG not distinguishing between the SS and other Heer formations.  The SS super trooper is a myth.  Even my own research of them quickly found them to be a very mixed bag, even over time. Such as the SS 6th Mountain Division in Finland dropped their equipment and stampeded nearly 50km before their officers could bring them under control when they were fired upon for the first time. Yet this same division gave the Americans so much trouble after the battle of the Bulge. The foreign SS divisions were hardly as good as the Luftwaffe field divisions.

We tend to look at a SS division’s performance for a given battle and adjust their stats based upon it. Such as the 5th SS division on the Eastern front tended to be very wasteful with their men for little gains to show for it. To reflect this we lower the points cost for the unit and adjust their saving rolls to be lower than other units. We look at other factors such as with the high turnover of troops we list them as being greener than other SS units. So overall our SS units on the average are just normal German units with more and or better equipment.