@yavasa – what I’m able to find re: 5th Cavalry Regiment:  Yes, the men were there.  But the unit seems to have been broken up and used to raise other units assigned to other divisions.  Hence it doesn’t come up in first searches:

via Feldgrau.net:

Between 26 July and 26 August 1939, the regiment was dissolved upon the general mobilization of the German Army, being used to raise :
– 12th Recon Battalion (1 bicycle recon & 1 mounted recon company) (12th Infantry Division)
– 32nd Recon Battalion (1 bicycle recon & 1 mounted recon company)
– the horse recon company of the 175th Recon Battalion (75th Infantry Division).

Source: Tessin – “Deutsche Verbände und Truppen, 1919 – 1939”
Biblio, Osnabrück, 1974.

Re: the Cavalry company (i.e., squadron) attached to Infantry divisions:  According to my books it was a “dywizjon” which would be translated to a battalion but I think a squadron could also be correct) compromised of 162 men  and 133 horses.  Yeah, that sounds like a company, which matches the 3-platoon organization I see in my sources.  Usually in ground cavalry or tanks, squadron = company (162 men sounds almost perfect).  That said, sometimes in air cav or air units, squadron is more analogous to a battalion, but that’s way off topic here. 😀

I can see the schützen regiments you’re talking about in the light divisions, and can confirm the numbers you list and their “motorized” makeup … I’ve just never heard them called “kavallerie” before.  Strange.

*2nd Light Division below as example:

Glad you liked the video. 😀

@jamesevans140 – Not sure if you meant your “disclaimer” as a joke.  Sometimes inflection or and tone doesn’t come across right over internet text.  So for now I’m going to assume you were being humorous.  😀

Yeah, we’ve been taking it easy with the Stukas.  Even when you pile them on (France, Barbarossa, etc), they often don’t come across as the wunderwaffe most seem to expect.  Definitely never against tanks.  I usually use them against artillery, when they’re 20 H comes in very handy.  They also make a mess of “weaker” infantry like Polish KOP or French conscripts … basically because these units have a 5 DF so that 20 divides into a nice 4:1.  Any infantry with a DF of 6 (i.e., they’re trained to actually take cover) drops to a 3:1, which is a big drop in this system.

Tanks are nice at occupying ground in the immediate aftermath of a given assault, assuming that ground is rather small, and assuming there is no large body of enemy infantry nearby under cover for close assault counter-attack.  Often, the first enemy reaction to losing key ground to tanks is to hit back immediately with whatever can reach … that means artillery, which tanks are very good at resisting.  However, “key ground” is often an objective, which is often a town or village, exactly what tanks are terrible at.

Here at Naprawa what I’m doing is shoving PzKpfw IIIs up against the objective, where that welded armor gives them reasonable survivability against the inevitable point-blank fire … long enough to call in that 10.5 cm fire mission.  The tanks are killing with their radios, not their little 3.7 cms.

Gotta be honest, I agree with you on the audio.  My bane.  But I wasn’t re-converting the completed audio track (music, SFX) into a separate .mp3 which I could then re-paste onto a silenced video and then RE-render the whole video, probably losing some of the resolution in the process.  That’s three hours of work I just didn’t feel like doing, to be honest.