Maneuver Warfare CSS Pack

The Maneuver Warfare CSS Pack adds a Combat Service Support (CSS) company to your battle group, with supply, recovery and field ambulance platoons. Keep these platoons close enough to your units for them to fall within the platoons’ green range circle.

Supply platoons

Supply platoons speed up ammunition replenishment for your units. Their vehicles can be trucks, half-tracks or tank-derived ammunition carriers. Armored carriers are better protected from enemy fire, but have less carrying capacity and replenish ammunition more slowly. The Encyclopedia lists each vehicle’s replenishment rate.

Available supply vehicles are Truck, SdKfz 250, Munitionspanzer I and Munitionspanzer III.

Recovery platoons

In campaign games, recovery platoons increase the proportion of lost vehicles and artillery pieces recovered from the battlefield rather than abandoned. Up to 91% of losses can count as damaged instead of completely lost. Since reinforcements between battles come from the pool of damaged equipment, recovering more increases the reinforcements available to your units.

Recovery vehicles range from light trucks and Panzer 38(t)-based vehicles to heavy Tiger- and Elefant-based vehicles. Heavier vehicles offer better protection and can recover heavier equipment; a Bergepanzer 38(t), for example, cannot recover a Tiger. The Encyclopedia lists each vehicle’s weight limits. Two recovery vehicles can also tow a single damaged vehicle together, allowing them to recover one heavier than either could tow alone.

Available recovery vehicles are Truck, Bergepanzer 38(t), Bergepanzer III, Bergepanzer IV, Bergepanzer Tiger, Bergepanzer Elefant and Bergepanther.

Field ambulance platoons

Field ambulance platoons help evacuate wounded soldiers, increasing the number who survive their injuries. This adds to the pool of reinforcements available between battles, so your units can recover more of their strength for subsequent battles. Ambulances are truck- or half-track-based; half-tracks offer better protection from enemy fire.

Available ambulances are Truck and SdKfz 251/8.

Platoon selection

For single battles, you receive a random 2–4 supply platoons. In campaign battles, you also receive random 2–4 platoons from the supply, recovery and field ambulance options available during that period. You can upgrade or replace CSS platoons during the purchasing phase between campaign operations.