I would like to make a general clarification on the TOE theme of the Regio Esercito because over the years I have had the opportunity to see that many especially wargamers are frantically searching for theoretical models to be applied to individual departments of the Royal Army. This "fashion" that has developed over the years on the American model of the standards in use at the time in the US army unfortunately CANNOT be applied to all the armies of the time. Upstream it must be considered that the American army was perhaps the only one at the time to be already supported by an industrial mass production that almost never meant that the front departments were far removed from the standards set by their TOE. What was VERY different was the state of the Royal Army and perhaps not only him. In fact, at the time Italy was still a nation almost entirely founded on an agricultural economy and with an industrial and war distribution and production not only not comparable to the American one but almost archaic. Not for this reason also the Reggio Army did not try to set standards (TOE) to be applied in the ranks of the units but alas ..... the fault of the typically Italian bureaucracy combined with the failure to achieve adequate production standards ended up improvising a lot and the result was that not only were organic schemes almost never respected, but many times also schemes were applied to these which instead of being lasting over time changed almost continuously even substantially. For example, in 1940 organic tables called "provisional" were issued, that is, they had to be applied only for the French campaign of 1940 but then in fact remained in force only to be gradually modified according to need by applying on them some "ad Hoc" reductions like 15% more in that department, 30% less in that other and so on. In this case then in AS I have NEVER found a department that for various reasons had the exact composition provided for in the tables dedicated to it. Even in the case of the organic type AS42 which in fact were the most long-lived of the whole campaign (May 1942-May 1943) there was in fact no division that applied them in full ..... however, returning to our topic, the Aries division for example is just one of those striking examples ... if you look in detail it framed at the moment of its arrival in AS (1941) a bersaglieri regiment (8.o) that had everything instead of a composition adhering to the tables in force at the time for the Bersaglieri regiments (presence of a 37/45 section in the battalion staff, 2 47/32 gun companies instead of one and both formed by army personnel instead of Bersaglieri who however formed the personnel of the third divisional battery of 47 / 32 attached in addition and to be precise with an overall defferent staff, regimental self-department increased by 15% etc etc ...) therefore perhaps we should instead look for organic tables in fact almost never re it is up to you to search for the real compositions on the field ... which is very difficult ....
all the best
Maurizio