DAK 81mm mortar transport

[old smokie]

just getting round to doing a DAK desert BG and was wondering what would be used to transport the 81mm mortars around

TIA 

[Orcs]

Hi Smokie

Transport in the desert was very much what ever was avaliable. So the choice is really yours.  Both sides made use of lots of captured vehicles. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

SDkFz 15 trucks...

[fred.]

Transport in the desert was very much what ever was avaliable. So the choice is really yours.  Both sides made use of lots of captured vehicles. 

Very much this - which is handy as you can build up a fleet of trucks, and use them for either side in a game as required!

[Womble67]

Like everyone else has said. You can pretty much use whatever you fancy.

Take care

Andy

[old smokie]

thanks guys 

[Ithoriel]

Was the Sdkfz250/8 mortar carrier used in the desert? As far as WW2 is concerned I'm more at home on the Steppes than the Sand Sea!

[toxicpixie]

Halftracks in the desert were rare as hens teeth, so not likely to be on a 250...

Any "German" truck (French/Czech/Dutch/Polish/British/Italian etc) would do, I guess!

[Ithoriel]

Halftracks in the desert were rare as hens teeth, so not likely to be on a 250...

Any "German" truck (French/Czech/Dutch/Polish/British/Italian etc) would do, I guess!

Thanks.

Mortar halftracks seem to have been standard issue for panzer recce in Russia but couldn't remember reading anything that mentioned them being used by DAK.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Probably only by 10th Panzer in Tunisia. Of course they were strictly not DAK.

IanS

[toxicpixie]

That's prompted me to have a butchers at the Nafziger collection (the joy of a quiet work morning!), and he lists 10th Panzer's armoured grenadiers as 251's for mortars in mid '42, and the truck mounted grenadiers as using Krupp Protze for their mortar vehicles.

I'd guess ideally the Afrika Korps mortars would be in Protzes, but with the shoe string & baling wire logistics they'd be as likely to be in anything they could grab that rolled whether it a Protze or a British/Italian/French/Czech/whatever