Create your own division

Your first attempt, I don't know how to respond. It is hardly any sort of organzed unit. You simply list a handful of the types of equipment it will use.

Your second unit has some serious problems and limitations:

Biggest is that you have 12 company sized units working under, assumedly, a single headquarters. That spreads the command structure very thin.
Next, the construction units are largely worthless unless they have materials at hand when they land. This is going to be unlikely in many, if not most, cases. Paratroops rarely drop into woods or wooded areas. Areas without suitable trees / materials will also present problems.
Your Alpha company is largely worthless as there are too many assigned as scouts to too little resources backing them. Snipers are annoying but largely worthless on a battlefield in the larger scale of things. If it were me and I were taking fire from one or several snipers I'd simply try harder to localize their position and then plaster it with artillery. Snipers also do little to tanks.


As an alternative I'd suggest an "Airhead Regiment." This unit would follow the landing of a regular parachute regiment or division. Their purpose would be to build an airhead into which reinforcements could be flown.

It would consist first of a glider landing battalion of airfield engineers. Their equipment would include 3 small bulldozers, 3 towable road graders with jeeps to tow them, 3 tall grass lawn mowers (towed) with jeeps, three disassembled 2 1/2 ton dump trucks. They would have a range of hand and power tools to assist in clearing, surveying, and laying out a grass landing strip suitable for a C47 sized cargo plane to land on within 72 hours of arriving.
The second battalion would be a parachute engineer unit that had the hand and power tools to start construction of the above site and also to clear and render it safe for the gliders to land. Their equipment would include marker lights, homing beacons, and other navigational and landing aids for this purpose.
The third battalion would also be glider borne and consist of a supply and maintenance unit capable of recovering the gliders, setting up a suitable camp area with tents, and providing basic maintenance to the other units along with being the first echelon repair unit for aircraft that land on the operational field.

Once the grass field is up and running, the transports would fly in supplies and building materials to improve the site. Landing mats, rubber fuel and water bladders, pumps, water purification units, and more construction equipment.
Within a week the site would be sufficently prepared that daily reinforcements could be flown in and the air head expanded. Now, with reinforcements, artillery, vehicles, and a means to supply them this air head would be either a thorn in the enemy's rear or a temporary defensive site that could be advanced on by ground troops.
It would have been incredibly useful in the Pacific in particular.

 

Id just take darbys rangers and both the 101st airborne divisions with a couple BNS of t-34s lol Oh and the first special service force.. LOL it would eb big but hey why not

 

ok,
Nailtonality German
tank Tiger 2, tiger, panther
primarary weapons fg42, mg42, mg34, m60, 50 cal browning , mauser98k , fn fal , mosion nagant, m14 , m1 garand, k43.

standard pistol wather p38

sniper rifle mauser98k[scoped]

size 10,000 infantry
550 medics
750 cargo
100 tanks[support]
50 artillery[support]
7,000 transport

 

Nationality: American
Branch: USMC
72nd Marine Storm Division

Regeiments:

409th Paratrooper Infantry Regiement
- Batalions:
9th Battalion
- Companies:
Dog- Forward Attack Company
Bravo- Shadow Attack Company
Easy- Flank Attack Company
Whiskey- Reserve Attack Company
25th Battalion
- Companies:
Able- Forward Attack Company
Fox- Shadow Attack Company
Baker- Flank Attack Company
Galt- Reserve Attack Company

518th Armoured Regiment
-Battalions:
7th Battalion
-Companies
Charlie- Forward Attack Company
Lu- Shadow Attack Company
Halo- Flank Attack Company
Issac- Reserve Attack Company
19th Battalion
-Companies
May- Forward Attack Company
Zulu- Shadow Attack Company
X-Ray- Flank Attack Company
Kit- Reserve Attack Company

332nd Marine Regiment
-Battalions
12th Battalion
-Companies:
Jacob- Forward Attack Company
Nitro- Shadow Attack Company
Oswald- Flank Attack Company
Penny- Reserve Attack Company
28th Battalion
-Companies:
Quail- Forward Attack Company
Rick- Shadow Attack Company
Styk- Flank Attack Company
Vulture- Reserve Attack Company

Weapons-
Pistol: Beretta M1934
Rifle: M1 Garand, M1A1 Carbine, Lee- Enfield SMLE
SMG: Thompson, PPSH42, MP40, Sten
Assault Weapon: BAR, MP44, Bren, PPSH, FG-42
Sniper Rifle: Mosin Nagant scoped, M1D Garand, Kar98k scoped
MG: MG-42, Browning 50.cal, Browning 30, cal
Flamethrowers: Type 93/ Type 100
Gernades: Mk.2, No. 82 Gammon Gernades, Model 24
Anti-Tank weapons: Panzershrek, M18 Recoiless Rifle
Mortar: M19

Vehicles-
Jeeps:Willy's
Armored Cars: M38 Greyhound
Tanks: Tiger, T-34, M4 Sherman, M3 Grant
Tank Destroyers: Panzerjager
Halftracks: SdKfz 4
AA: Flakpanzer
Amphibous: DUKW
Aircraft: C-47, P-51, Me 109, B-50, Zero, F6F Hellcat, SB2C Helldiver, Kate
Artilery: 105 mm Howitzer M2



Rundown
Troops: 13,000
Tanks: 250
Artilery: 75
Aircraft: 200 (mostly transports)
Transports: 900

 

Too add on

5 special forces teams


2,000 resevest

40[fixed]ammo dumps
900[mobile] ammo dumps[or whatever you wanna call them]

AA flack 40 and 88

self- porpelled artillery-hummel and wespe

tank destoyers jagdpanther - sdkfz173, marder


apc sdkfz251

transport opel bliz, maultier,sdkfz11, kubelwagen

artillery GUSTAV[yea baby]

 

Tch, you guys are forgetting the Landkreuzer P-1000 "Ratte"

 

Well Terry, (Can I call you Terry?) I must totally admit that you are correct; so I shall. It was meant to be largly a :more on the combat scale: Airborne Engineer division. Thanks for reconstructing my Division

 

Divisional Status:Infantry
Nationality: German
Tanks: King Tigers, M26 Pershings
Primary firearms: G-43, StG 44, BAR
MG-MachienGewhler42, and Browning .50 cal

 

Rocket Artillery division
10 companies
Nationality:Soviet
Vehicles: ZIS-6 Transport, Katusha Rocket Truck, T-60

Companies Structure.
3 Platoons of 50 men each Plus 1 T-60 for each platoon

Each Platoon Has 5 Katusha Trucks with 5 men on each with the additional 25 riding on ZIS-6 Transports with Rockets for reloading. (These 25 will divide into 5 to help each Rocket team reload faster.

The 10th will have 30 T-60s and 10 transports carrying additional fuel

Purpose: To act in cooperation with Infantry divisions in the fields and to reinforce defensive positions.

Now could somebody rate this?

 

Australian mechanized division using mk 3 and 4 sentinel tanks as main AFV rest as is because you cant beat Australian infantry

 

18,000 tom hank,s,with a easy company.
or,43rd wessex div,with a regt of js2m tanks.cheers.

 

The Division GROSSDEUTSCHLAND should do the trick.

Regards
Kruska

 

I'll join in and do this properly.

Infantry weapons
Lee-Enfield No.4, M1A1 Carbine, Bren, Thompson M1A1, Webley Mk IV revolvers, Panzershreck.

Support weapons
Vickers MMG, 3" mortar, 6pdr AT

Tanks
MBT-A34 Comet
Recce-M5 Stuart
Infantry support- Churchill Crocodile

Tank Destroyers
Achilles (M10 w/17pdr)
SU-76

SP Artillery
Wespe
Hummel
SU-152
Ostwind

Other Vehicles
Bren Carrier w/ Vickers MMG
Bren Carrier w/3" Mortar
Universal carrier
CCKW-353
Dingo AC
SdKfz 231
SdKfz 251
DUCKW

Artillery
25pdr
5.5 inch

AAA
Bofors 40mm
Triple Oerlikon 20mm
3.7 inch

 

Wow! Can you just imagine a universe where you could pick and chose your men and weapons from yours and your enemies? How about picking your Divisional Generals and other officers from the opposing sides too while you are at it?

 

Joe: I hate to break it to you, but a list of weapons is not a division orgainzation. It is a list of weapons.......

 

Once again LOGISTICS, What about the mix of foreign vehicles and weapons? The differents calibers alone would be a hinderance to combat supply. Or the parts and maintinence? Or are we saying in this fantasy world that one country would be producing both thier own and the weapons and vehicles of thier enemy?

 

As a kid, I always wanted to put together a fleet whose mission is to conduct hit and run raids-trying to draw out the Japanese fleet and sink anything that came out. The fleet would be composed of:

3 Essex Class Carriers (for heavy hitting)
6 light carriers (anti sub & CAP purposes)
6 older battleships
3 Heavy cruisers
12 Light cruisers
50 destroyers
12 PT Boats
6 Catalinas

plus support ships

 

Yeah well, I like my list of weapons!

 

Gentelmen:

Any sucessful military formation is dependent on its ability to support combat operations. I would be willing to settle for second class weapons if I got a robust support group. Running out of ammunition,medical supplies, and commasariat is an un mitigated disaster.

The way the Russian beat the Sixth Army at Stalingrad was to eleminate their ability to resupply. Contrary to what Goering said the Luftwaffe could not supply the Sixth Army.
As Ever,

Walter L. Marlowe

( Airborne All the Way)