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Realistic Resupply System
Mixed Mode Movement and Slope Effects
Realistic Delay Task
Exit Tasks
Linked Tasks
Map Improvements
Enhanced Interface, including:
- Order of Battle display
- Display Tool Bar
- New Planning Tools
- Message Log and filters
- SOP History Log
- Enhanced Terrain popup
- Improved Data displays
Improved AI, including:
- Force Allocation
- Reaction and Reassessment
- Formation code
- Retreat code
Additional Weather Patterns
Over 20 new maps
Over 1,000 new Estabs
Over 30 new scenarios
Force List Export/Import
Mod-able Victory Messages
Mod-able Terrain Key

Sources for Arras Battle

Here's a listing of the sources I've used thus far in compiling data for this little scenario:

HRN Horne Allistair - To Lose A Battle, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England 1984

RMML Rommel, Erwin and Liddell-Hart, Basil H.(editor) - The Rommel Papers, Decapo Press, NY, NY 1953

FSCHR Fischer, K. H., Blitzkrieg Legend Link: http://chrito.users1.50megs.com/karten/1940/arras21mai40.jpg Map is a scan from book.

USMA United States Miliatry Acadamy Map Collection Online. Map: Northwestern France, 1940. Campaign in the West 1940, Situation 21 May and Operations Since 16 May Link: http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/ww2%20europe/ww2%20europe%20pages/ww2%20europe%20map%2012.htm Map is from scanned from unknown source, probably: Atlas of The Second World War: Asia and the Pacific (Wayne, NJ: Avery Publishing Group, Inc., 1985).

SPRHD John Moher, Spearhead Games Website, 1997-2000 Link: http://www.geocities.com/ww2spearhead/06grob01.htm Games Website with OOBs and Rules

WKPD WikiPedia: British Expeditionary Forces; Modified 3/27/2005 Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEF#World_War_II

FLDGR Online message board at www.feldgrau.com

WW2DB World War II Data Book, Essential Facts and Figures for All Combatants. John Ellies, Aurum Press, London 1993

LEX German language website about SS formations: http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/SS-Divisionen/SSDivTK.htm

TIL HPS - France 1940 Game OOB

NIEH Niehorster Website: http://niehorster.orbat.com/011_germany/40_organ_army/_40_org_army.html

5th Panzer OOB

This outfit participated in the Arras counterstroke not at all, I think. But they were in very close proximity to the battle, holding down the right flank of 7th Panzer along the Scarpe river.

5th Panzer Division


8th Pz Brigade
31st Panzer Regiment
1.Abt.
2.Abt.

14th Panzer Regiment
1.Abt.
2.Abt.

8th Panzer Reconnaisance Battalion

5th Shutzen Brigade
14th Rifle Regiment
1.Btl.
II.Btl

13th Rifle Regiment
1 Btl.
II.Btl.

13./Schtz.Bde.5

89th Pioneer Battalion (Motorized with Bridging Equipment and Armor)

77th Signals Battalion

53rd Antitank Battalion

116th Artillery Regiment
1 Btl.
II.Btl.

Dreaded 88

It was at the high watermark of the BEF's attack that Rommel is reported to have employed the 88mm anti-aircraft gun as an antitank weapon for the first time, easily defeating the heavily armored Matilda, and halting the attack.

I wrote the above quote believing that this was indeed the momentous occasion in which the 88 became the dreaded weapon of the Germans. However, it is apparently not so. 88s were pressed into anti-tank service in Poland and possibly even Spain. I'm looking for more info on this.

OOB for Rommel's Ghost Division

7th Panzer Division

Armor
25th Panzer Regiment (of three battalions)
1.Abt. 44 x Pz II, 19 x Pz IV
2.Abt. 44 x Pz II, 19 x Pz III
66.Abt 44 x Pz 1, 19 x Pz III

37th Panzer Reconnaisance Battalion
2 x 75mm how
3 x 37mm anti-tank
3 x 81mm mortar
48 x armored cars

Infantry
6th Rifle Regiment
1.Btl. 8 x heavy m.g., 6 x 81mm mort.
II.Btl 8 x heavy m.g., 6 x 81mm mort.

7th Rifle Regiment
1 Btl. 8 x heavy m.g., 6 x 81mm mort.
II.Btl. 8 x heavy m.g., 6 x 81mm mort.

s. Inf. Gesch. Kp.705
2 x 75mm ho
3 x 37 mm anti-tank

7th Motorcycle Battalion
54 x light m.g.
15 x heavy m.g.
9 x 50mm mortar
6 x 8 mm mortar

Engineers
58th Pioneer Battalion

Artillery
78th Field Artillery Regiment
Battalion x three four-gun batteries
Battalion x three four-gun batteries
Battalion x three four-gun batteries

42nd Antitank Battalion