Smoke!

[jivemi]

IMO infantry smoke is excessive, although there's an item at lonesentry.com which indicates German infantry, at least, had smoke grenades and "candles." There's also a discussion at theminiaturespage.com which suggests other grunts had it. Maybe you can use the editor to tone it down a bit.

I recall reading accounts of German and British tanks using smoke in David Irving's The Trail of the Fox and Stuart Hills' By Tank Into Normandy. You can Google "tank smoke shells ww2" for a little more info, but there doesn't seem to be a whole lot.

[76mm]

For tanks I'm not talking about smoke shells as much as smoke grenades that they pop off while under fire.

[gila]

Originally Posted by 76mm

For tanks I'm not talking about smoke shells as much as smoke grenades that they pop off while under fire.

I'll reckon you be talking about the STuF and STuG's assualt tanks.
They have smoke dischargers (2),they were needed as they were turretless, good frontal armour not so on the sides.
If they recieved a close hit it would mean jocking the vehichle to change facing at the threat which takes time so some german engineer figured smoke dischargers might work.
I don't think it's much a problem as smoke can be a double edged sword,immediatlly fire suppressve fire into the hex,lock on some morters on the vicinty and manuever using that smoke as your cover also,or just still and wait.