@Admiral_Thrawn:
Timeover51 I am trying to do an order of battle for June 1941. I don’t think I would make the inf weaker as the war took its toll on germany. That would be too difficult. I think if the war is going badly for Germany than they can’t build as many Inf to represent the weakening of German power.
I agree that an inf would be a Corps.
As for the navy I think for simplicity you could lump the ASW ships into Destroyers. Once you found out how many ships the different nation had and where they where they where positioned you would have to make each piece worth multiple Ships.
So, basically, you are looking for an Order of Battle for Barbarossa then, or at least one for that time period. Do you need exact unit location, or simply how many units of what type were where? If that is what you need, I have that in my US Army Historical Studies pamphlet set. As for ship order of battle, as I said, I can come up with that fairly readily. Aircraft are a little tougher, as air units moved a fair amount. Then too, A&A Europe, along with the rest of A&A, lumps fighters and dedicated ground attack aircraft like the Stuka into one category and puts bombers in the other. Also, are you playing Italy as a separate country or including them with Germany?
My advice, at least with respect to the land and air units, is to set Germany as your standard to start with, and have X number of German infantry represent Y number of infantry divisions, V number of tanks represent W number of panzer divisions, and then add 3 artillery for the 3 Army Groups (North, Center, and South). Depending on how you apportion the figure to division ratio, you might want to add a few more artillery. Once you have your German figures totalled, you can then simply figure out the ratio of German divisions to Allied Divisions for each Allied Country, and that gives you the base figure total for each Ally. Do the same for aircraft, although you might want to play with the ratio of German to Russian, as a lot of the Russian aircraft in June of 1941 were obsolete, and basically useless against the Luftwaffe.
For the warships, I would say have each battleship represent a battle squadron of 4 ships, which would give you 4 battleships for the British, and each carrier represent 2 carriers, which is the ratio in A&A Pacific. I will need to check on how many carriers that would give the British, as by June of 1941, they had lost the Courageous and Glorious, but had added some armored deck ships. Your major problem is that you are missing the cruiser force, which played a major role in convoy escort, raider hunting, and general purpose duties. For destroyers and smaller ASW escorts, you should figure on having somewhere around 12 to 16 on the board, each ship representing roughly 25 to 30 escort ships. You should also have one dedicated bomber to serve as Coastal Command, and assist ships in attacking subs. For carrier air groups, if you give the British 2 fighters per carrier, you should give the US carriers, 1 of which should be available, 3 fighters to reflect that larger American air groups.
I hope that all of this is of help to you. Let me know when you need the naval order of battle stuff, and also if my ideas about land units are okay.
