Wasn't sure if this belongs here or in the inspiration section but as it contains profiles its here for now (feel free to move it Brian).
Anyway, below is a little background and some design ideas behind our (me and my brother's) Project ’46 stuff. I put them together some time ago to provide a framework for some of the modelling and our gaming.
We roughly planned for four classes of vehicles which would be allocated to different arms-of-service dependant on battlefield role.
1) The Infantry would convert all motorised units to semi-tracked to improve battlefield mobility and were to replace their 4×2 and 4×4 trucks with the SdKfz251 family of half-tracked vehicle's.
2) The Fallschirmjager and Heer Jager units would receive the family of air-transportable light armoured vehicles based on the excellent Panzer 38(t) chassis.
3) The armored reconnaissance corps or Panzeraufklärungstruppe would receive additional vehicles based on, and to compliment, the existing 234 8rad chassis. The corps would receive fully enclosed infantry transport and support vehicles fully based on a unifed chassis, both simplifying maintenance and improving capability.
4) Finally the Panzergrenadiers would receive a family of fully tracked and enclosed APCs based on the PzIII/IV “Hummel” chassis. These vehicles would finally provide the service with the capability to keep up with the Panzers under cross country conditions and provide superior overhead protection for the troops and weapons systems.
Brent