German Mechanized Artillery "Hummel & others"

[Darkman]

Why the Germans don't have the  Mechanized Artillery? Like the Hummel

First 8 Hummels entered service in March of 1943 followed by 46 in April.
Hummels had their debut during operation "Zitadelle (Citadel)" in the Summer of 1943, when some 100 were in battle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_101I-219-0596-25,_Russland-Mitte-S%C3%BCd,_Panzerhaubitze_%22Hummel%22.jpg

Self-propelled artillery

SdKfz 165 Hummel (713)
SdKfz 138/1 Grille I/II (383)
SdKfz 124 Wespe (676)
SdKfz 4/1 15 cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf Selbstfahrlafette "Maultier" (296)

Stats
Begin Production i would say Spring or  Summer 1942
Same - Stats like US and Britain
Max Build  1 or 2

[John D.]

Ok - this question has come up many times. I personally would like to see German mechanized artillery - for flavor at least. Mark has been resistant to the idea - he mentioned there were not many in service over the course of the war and they were spread out.

Maybe you can change his mind. 

I think a max build of 1 with the same stats as allied mobile artillery sounds great. I don't think this would be a game breaker at all.

[Darkman]

Ok :-) i think mark might be wrong in this yeah this unit is no game breaker.

[georgemak1]

I would try to impement tem in my game too, I think max of 1 is about right.

[Mark]

Wow - I have missed a lot of posts over the last couple weeks on rules questions and suggestions. . .not sure where to begin, but I'll start here.  I was against the idea of a German mech artillery unit only because I felt like there were not many of them and they were dispersed in such a way to not make them a viable piece in a game of this scale.  Also, I was trying to cut down a little on map clutter by trying to eliminate some of the very rare models so that we would not have one of everything in a space.

BUT, I guess with the suggestion of a German mech artillery unit, I will cave into the community (many of the players we have been playing with in CT and MA have said to me similar things about introducing the unit).

I can see maybe including it in the German build chart - maybe in Spring of 1942 with the rest of the German production changes - with a maximum builds of 1?

[Darkman]

Seems Perfect Mark ! Welcome Back!