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What the Regrouping Means
Until this part of the campaign, I had been inspired by Frank Chadwick’s Bathtub Barbarossa
campaign, and indeed his approach had been instrumental in producing a
maneagable campaign, particularly his Europa series of hex-grid maps.
Frank’s campaign scaled everything down 25 times and instead of 3 German Army Groups invading Russia, he had 3 Corps and the whimsically named Klein Deutschland regiment. Initially, I followed that approach. The time had come though to introduce a more satisfactory (for me that is, nothing wrong with the way Frank did it) scaling system. I kept the original orders of battle but downsized each unit by 3 levels of command, representing an Infantry division with an NQM-sized infantry battalion.
It worked for me, but from this point on, the war diaries will have a fracture in them The 3 Far Eastern Corps will disappear
to be replaced by their historical units. This last statement is only
true to a point, because the NQM Barbarossa campaign has departed
somewhat from history already. Proir to this post, all of the battles
had been fought using my 20mm collection. In fine Soviet style, all
previous shots of my 15mm collection have been assembled after the
event for illustrative propaganda purposes!
Frank’s campaign scaled everything down 25 times and instead of 3 German Army Groups invading Russia, he had 3 Corps and the whimsically named Klein Deutschland regiment. Initially, I followed that approach. The time had come though to introduce a more satisfactory (for me that is, nothing wrong with the way Frank did it) scaling system. I kept the original orders of battle but downsized each unit by 3 levels of command, representing an Infantry division with an NQM-sized infantry battalion.
NQM German infantry battalion from the author's collection
German Panzer Battalion from the author's collection. Each model represents approximately 30 tanks
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