They made 24 and then built over 300 Brummbar. What does that tell you?
still hadn't found what they were looking for....which don't mean they were no good.
1942= 1812 tanks/AFV were converted or rebuilt about 1/2 were light tanks & the other half were heavier tanks.....none were Sturmpanzer. Instead new construction was wasted on 24 Sturmpanzer-III or 117 Pz III command tanks plus 817 New Pz-I/II/Marder-II & 653 NEW Pz-38T & Pz-38t Marder.....Choices.
If instead these rebuild/conversions are used, then 1421 of the more valuable Pz-III/IV could be rebuilt & converted into command/Sturmpanzer tanks plus more regular Pz-III/IV tanks. That still leaves conversion of 532 Pz-II/38t hulls into Marder SPG.
What's left over is the new construction of 1611 light tanks. The combat record of the light tanks from 1941 was not good with high attrition rates in the combat units . However Light tanks as 'command tanks' or 'recon tanks' seems to have survived well enough. Failing this build as many as SPG as possible.
With those numbers the loss of 6 months to retool would only mean the loss of 600-800 new light tanks. But how many EARLY HETZERS could the Czechs build? If it was based on the Pz-II chassis how many more could be built?