Limited German resources create tension between producing more equipment and sustaining what has already been built. One argument stresses the extra fuel, ammunition, and personnel needed for greater numbers; another objects that scarcity does not require continual variation between machines. Keeping a production batch together can make unit maintenance easier than distributing variants across many formations. The participants disagree over whether batches were dispersed and recall attempts to keep Tiger batches together. By 1944, the later need to operate whatever tanks could be obtained further disrupted that ideal.
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Why keeping production batches together can ease maintenance
A disagreement about German production turns to the support cost of distributing different manufacturing batches among units.