Kereguelen -> RE: IJA Armor units (5/31/2011 7:39:37 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Andy Mac Cid Kereguelen did most of the Japanese ORBATs as Joe was project manager and K based it on his own sources and data so he would be the one to say whether his sources differ from yours specifically on the support numbers it was done on a different basis to what you have calculated as part of the national TOE harmonisation so its not as straight forward as working out how many support teams are available per unit. Andy Yup, the Japanese ORBAT was mainly my work and Joe 'served' as 'my' reviewer during the AE development process (apart from being our overall project manager and big boss, of course). And no, as far as I can tell, Sid did not contribute anything to the AE (Sid is no 'source' and we used sources for our work and not random opinions offered by various people). And if I remember correctly, that when we started the AE project, Joe made quite clear that we (the developers) should not make use of any information provided by individuals during the work on the CHS or in the forum but should instead only use source-based information (there were, of course, many posts in the old WITP forum that were most helpful to actually locate some sources). Cannot speak for the other developers, but I certainly did just this when working on the Japanese ORBAT. And yes, I used the Osprey book mentioned by Sid as one of our sources. As a sidenote: One problem coming with Japanese armored force TOE's is that tank units hardly (if ever) followed any official TOE's and this is somewhat explained in the Osprey book. And no, the TOE given by Sid above is not the 'official' TOE for Japanes Tank Regiments. I'm at work and don't have the Osprey book at hand, but at first glance Sid's TOE in his first post in this thread looks like some kind of merger of the TOE of a Japanes late war Tank Regiment with the TOE of a Japanese late war Tank Brigade[&:]. Btw., I'm generally willing to answer questions about or discuss the Japanese OOB in the AE (if time/real-life permits) and to explain why, in some cases, TOE's in the AE differ from historical or official TOE data (when it comes to support squads this should be quite clear - they are an abstraction). But I usually ignore posts that contain statements like 'A Tank Regiment TO&E was typically...' because posts like this implicate that the poster already knows everything about a given issue and thus there is no point to discuss it (at least not for me).
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