Looking at doing a 3. or 15. Panzergrenadier (PzG) Division defense of Italy in '43 or '44 list for my first go round with Bolt Action. Both of these units were used as 'fire brigades', patching holes and shoring up lines in the major defenses across Italy. Both also went on to fight in Western Europe, so it's a good springboard to that in later war periods, while still being basic rifle squads at this time.
List ideas:
The 'standard on paper' PzG squad at this point would be an NCO with a SMG, 5 riflemen in a maneuver section, and 2 LMGs and loaders in a machine gun section, piled into a halftrack.
There are a few issues already, using the The Defense of Italy theater selector uses squads that cannot take 2 LMGs at a time, so will probably be either short staffing the required squad or otherwise fluffing a reason the two required Grenadier squads are missing a machine gun. Also, the PzG regiments in this division did not seem to be mechanized in half-tracks, so going to try to steer clear from too many of them in the list. The panzerfaust and Shrek had both made appearances by now, but I'm not sure in how much density they should be deployed. I'm also leaning towards having the platoon represent one of the Panzer Aufklärungskompanie (reconnaissance companies) or having them be in support of the main platoon at least. I'm not sure how much 'mixing' of groups there would have been, or if on the fly kampfgruppen were a thing that would explain several things being lumped together.
Things I am learning:
Germans are apparently tinkergnomes and do not appreciate the space-bar.
I do not know Wehrmacht ranks.
