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After much playtesting, I seem to have found a slight issue with my list. 90% of the time I seem to get swamped with shermans, and just can't deal with them fast enough. As a result, I've considered adding in some tank hunters (probably marder III's) as well as throwing in either another panzer platoon or adding to the ones already here. The target point limit is 1750 or 1800 (can't decide at the moment)

Company HQ w. 1 Panzer IV F1 & 1 Panzer IV G - 245

Panzer Platoon w. 3 Panzer IV F1 - 300
Panzer Platoon w. 3 Panzer IV G - 435

Panzer Pioneer Platoon w. 3 squads - 135
Rocket Launcher Battery w. 4 15cm NW41 - 115
Marder IIIH w. 3 tanks - 270
Heavy Panzerspah Patrol w.3 patrols - 255

Leaves me with 45 points left over. Any suggestions for the list?

Alternatively I could get away from the North Africa book altogether and run a later war German Panzerkompanie from Fortress Europe

Company HQ w. 2 StuG IV - 190

Panzer Platoon w. 3 StuG IV - 285
Panzer Platoon w. 3 Panzer IV H - 285

Panzer Pioneer Platoon w. 3 sections - 145
Rocket Launcher Battery w. 2 sections - 165
Tank Hunter Platoon w. 2 Elefants - 600

Which is 130pts left over for stuff. I'm not totally sold on the elefants either, but at the same time they look cool, which is reason enough in my mind lol

Curious why you don't run full panzer platoons of 5 tanks. I know it's pointswise more expensive but it will give you more shots each turn and better survivability. Spreading out should minimize artillery and air support cleaning your clock too quickly. Just a thought.

At the moment its simply because I don't have the models to do so. After my next paycheck however it could be achievable

at guns....pak 40's...cheap and will crush sherman's

How will they fare against massed t34s? One of my friends is starting FoW and wants to do a russian tank horde

Thanks for the advice!