Military production of Axis Minors
Italy, Hungary, Romania

Military production of the Axis Minors Italy, Hungary and Romania in the 2nd World War.

Following are tables of the known Italian, Hungarian and Romanian military production (excluding ammunition) and a comparison of the necessary strategic raw materials in WW2.

Picture: Several new Italian M14-41 tanks await shipment to North Africa.

At the end is a approximate implementation of the military production of Germany's allies to PP's (production points) for the strategy game WW2 Total - in the case that the game play is close to the events of the history of WW2 and excluding the additional German weapons shipments to the armies of these countries.

Military production of Axis minors by weapon types

Annual production figures for the Axis minor powers Italy, Hungary and Romania of the main arms and military equipment (without ammunition) during the 2nd World War from 1939-1945.

Italy

Type of Weapon	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943 (8 months)	1944/45 (numbers included in German production)	Overall	use in the strategy game for the calculation of:
Tanks and Self-propelled guns (without light tanks and tankettes)	40	250	595	1,252	336	435	2,908	Tanks, Tank destroyers, Self-propelled guns
Artillery (including anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns)	7,200					?	7,200	AT, AA, Artillery
Military trucks and Lorries	83,000					?	83,000	Trucks
Fighter planes	?	1,155	1,339	1,488	528	?	4,510	Fighters
Bomber planes	?	640	754	566	103	?	2,063	Bombers
Reconnaissance planes	?	351	355	276	98	?	1,080	-
Transport planes	-	-	102	249	117	?	468	-
Training planes	?	797	710	160	102	?	1,769	-
Battleships	-	2	1	-	-	-	3	BB
Cruisers	-	2	3	1	-	-	6	BB
Destroyers	-	-	-	6	-	-	6	DD
Submarines	-	2	7	10	9	-	28	Subs
Merchant shipping tonnage	119,757	35,299	96,999	153,656	63,895	?	469,606	Transport ships

Raw material production for the military weapons production above:

Annual strategic raw material production (m. metric tons)	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945
Coal	?	4.4	4.4	4.8	3.3	-	-
Ore	?	1.2	1.3	1.1	0.8	-	-
Steel	?	2.1	2.1	1.9	1.7	-	-
Aluminium (in 1.000 metric tons - especially important for aircraft production)	?	?	?	?	?	-	-

Hungary

Type of Weapon	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	Overall	use in the strategy game for the calculation of:
Tanks and Self-propelled guns	-	-	-	approx. 500			approx. 500	Tanks, Tank destroyers, Self-propelled guns
Artillery (including anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns)	447						447	AT, AA, Artillery
Infantry weapons: Machine-guns (without sub-machine guns)	4,583						4,583	Machine guns
Fighter planes (Bf109, Me210)	-	-	-	6	267	773	1,046	Fighters

Raw material production:

Annual strategic raw material production (m. metric tons)	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945
Coal	?	1.2	1.3	1.3	1.4	1.4	-
Ore	?	1.9	2.4	2.5	2.6	4.7	-
Steel	?	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.7	-
Aluminium (in 1.000 metric tons - especially important for aircraft production)	?	3.2	5.0	6.0	9.5	13.2	-

Romania

Type of Weapon	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944 (7 months)	Overall	use in the strategy game for the calculation of:
Military planes	approx. 1,000						approx. 1,000	Fighters

Raw material production:

Annual strategic raw material production (m. metric tons)	1939	1940	1941	1942	1943	1944	1945
Coal	?	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.2	?
Ore	?	2.1	2.4	3.0	3.3	?	?
Steel	?	0.3	?	0.3	0.3	?	?
Aluminium (in 1.000 metric tons - especially important for aircraft production)	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

Military production of Germany's allies for the strategy game WW2 Total

The transformation of the previous Italian, Hungarian and Romanian production figures in average numbers per month and the value in PP's (production points) for the strategy game WW2 Total :

Type of weapon	Fighting power	1 unit for the game for every:	1942			1943
Type of weapon	Fighting power	1 unit for the game for every:	Average per month	Price per unit (PP's)	Total value (PP's)	Average per month	Price per unit (PP's)	Total value (PP's)
Tanks, Tank destroyers, Self-propelled guns	64%	300	118	65	26	56	115	21
Trucks	64%	4,500	2,184	12	8	2,184	12	8
Rifles	64%	14,000	25,000	10	18	25,000	10	18
Sub-machine guns	64%	14,000	2,500	10	2	2,500	10	2
Machine-guns	64%	7,000	1,000	18	3	1,000	18	3
Mortars	64%	2,500	200	20	2	200	20	2
Artillery, AT, AA	64%	900	212	30	7	212	40	7
Fighter planes	80%	375	152	160	65	115	170	52
Bomber planes	80%	375	47	300	38	13	400	14
Battleships and Cruisers	64%	6 BB or 24 CA or 36 CLA	0.017	2,500	7	0	2,500	0
Destroyers, Escorts	64%	30 DD, 45 TB, 120 MTB	0.500	500	8	0	500	0
Submarines	64%	30	0.833	250	7	1.125	250	9
Transport ships	100%	every 40,000 ts	12,805 t	120	38	7,987 t	120	24
TOTAL					229			160
Change of price value by increasing the productivity and savings in the civilian industrial sector without more consumption of strategic raw materials				-0%	0		-0%	0
Sub-total (PP's)					229			160
Bombing damage and losses of strategic raw materials on sea				+5%	+11		+10%	+16
Sub-total (PP's)					240			176
Additional PP's for research, maintenance, political influences and starting of offensives (calculated without bombing damage)				+75%	+172		+70%	+112
TOTAL (PP's)					412			288

Type of weapon	Fighting power	1 unit for the game for every:	1944 (excluding Italy)			1945
Type of weapon	Fighting power	1 unit for the game for every:	Average per month	Price per unit (PP's)	Total value (PP's)	Average per month	Price per unit (PP's)	Total value (PP's)
Tanks, Tank destroyers, Self-propelled guns	64%	300	14	115	5	Becaue of the early surrender of Italy, the side-change of Romania and Bulgaria, the following resignation of Finland and the nearly full occupation of Hungary, a calculation for 1945 does not make sense and the values of 1944 should be used instead.
Trucks	64%	4,500	0	12	0
Rifles	64%	14,000	25.000	10	18
Sub-machine guns	64%	14,000	2.500	10	2
Machine-guns	64%	7,000	1.000	18	3
Mortars	64%	2,500	200	20	2
Artillery, AT, AA	64%	900	20	40	1
Fighter planes	80%	375	65	170	29
Bomber planes	80%	375	0	400	0
Battleships and Cruisers	64%	6 BB or 24 CA or 36 CLA	0	2,500	0
Destroyers, Escorts	64%	30 DD, 45 TB, 120 MTB	0	500	0
Submarines	64%	30	0	250	0
Transport ships	100%	every 40,000 ts	0 t	120	0
TOTAL					60
Change of price value by increasing the productivity and savings in the civilian industrial sector without more consumption of strategic raw materials				-40%	-24
Sub-total (PP's)					36
Bombing damage and losses of strategic raw materials on sea				+15%	+5
Sub-total (PP's)					41
Additional PP's for research, maintenance, political influences and starting of offensives (calculated without bombing damage)				+60%	+25
TOTAL (PP's)					66

Notes:

The aircraft production (one per 300 planes at 100% fighting power) is calculated about 1/3 less than the comparable tank production (one per 200 tanks at 100% fighting power) because about 1/3 of the total aircraft losses were due to accidents.
The Axis minor powers received large supplies of arms from Germany during the Second World War, often in return for important raw materials. In the strategy game WW2 Total this is taken into account, that a part of the production points of Germany are placed in key raw materials provinces (eg oil from Ploesti in Romania, nickel in northern Finland) of the Axis minor powers and are so available for their own military production.

Note: a number of the unit types listed here already will be added only in later versions of the strategy game WW2 Total !