Paul59 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2019 12:52 am
[Something you may be interested in is Great Ajax's Army List mod:
It adds a ton of new army lists to BA2, and snipers to many of the German lists, but sadly not the Soviet.
Thanks, its thread runs to 2 page and sounds a bit too complex for me, and as there are no Russki snipers we're back into "glaring omission" territory again so I think I'll give it a miss because I've already had a bellyful of glaring omissions in the standard game..

Anyway I've made some headway in patching together a string of decently-balanced 'Skirmish' battles to form a "campaign", so for the record and for anybody else experimenting along the same lines, these below are Fixed forces (not Random) and we get good force mixes-
German main armour types-
Mech 41:- PzIVD(short 75mm) / PzIIIF(short 50mm) / Pzjager1 / Stug B(short 75mm) / Pz38t
Panzer Corps 43:- PzIVF2(long 75mm) / PzIVF1(short 75mm) / PzIIIN(long 50mm) / Stug G(long75mm) / Marder III / Wespe
SS Pz Cps 43:- Tiger / PzIVF2(long75mm) / PzIII Flamm / Wespe
Russian main armour types-
Mech 41:- T-34(76mm) / BT-7 / BT-7A
Tank Div 41:- T-34(76mm) / T-28 / T-26
Ramshackle 41:- KV-1 / BT-7 / T-26 / KV2
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The above Fixed selections give a pretty good mix of units for the early and mid-war periods BUT we have to switch to a 'Random April 1945' selection if we want to play the Late war period, because that's the only way we'll usually get the following extra units-
German-
Kingtiger / Panther / Nashorn / Jagdpanther / JpzIV / Elefant / Hetzer
Russian-
T-34(85mm) / SU-85 / SU-122 / SU-76 / Sherman / Valentine / Matilda
HOWEVER, even though that's an impressive array of Late war Random units, there's no guarantee that they'll all be in the same battle, for example T-34/85's or Elefants etc might appear in one battle but not the next.
Also, the computer might dish up random selections that are very mismatched and unbalanced, for example one side (usually the Russians) might be infantry-heavy with very few armoured "teeth" with which to get stuck into Kingtigers etc.