That little detail seemed too confusing to add to the game set, so Panzer Lehr fields its own Panthers in the Lehr color scheme in this supplement. Division commander Fritz Bayerlein frantically collected the Panthers and crews and turned them back to the front.
Panzer Lehr went into battle in Normandy without its own Panther battalion 3rd Panzer Division had lent its Panther battalion so that Panzer Lehr could conduct formation exercises and the borrowed unit had just started on its way back to Germany when the Allies landed in Germany. Despite the pledge to equip Panzer Lehr only with the most modern weapons available, many of the division’s support weapons were towed rather than self-propelled. The battle-hardened troopers concentrated in Panzer Lehr would probably have been better employed lending that experience to the new Volksgrenadier formations being raised for the war’s climactic battles.īy 1944, most firepower from a German battalion (whether infantry or panzer grenadier) came from its mortar company. While Panzer Lehr performed well in combat, their performance can’t really be called out as exceptional. For the Panzer Lehr set, the panzer grenadiers are represented by the SCH (Schützen) piece, which has the same full-strength firepower but degrades slightly less after a step loss. While German panzer grenadier platoons followed a different table of organization than their brothers in the infantry, the differences aren’t enough to show up in game terms and we’ve usually used one piece to represent both types of unit.
The special pieces have the Panzer Lehr divisional symbol, and the gray-green background color I originally wanted for all German Army units in Panzer Grenadier (I still think they look better than the gray eventually used). Panzer Lehr, the book, includes 27 scenarios by Mike Perryman and a campaign game. Panzer Lehr, an outfit made up of combat-experienced demonstration troops from the German Army’s training schools, had a (probably inflated) reputation as a hard-fighting “fire brigade” formation on the Western Front in 1944. It features actions of the Panzer Lehr Division. Panzer Grenadier: Panzer Lehr is a centerpiece of the Gold Club Free Library.
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