Krautman

I'd love to see russian heavy on-map arty too. Did the russian 122mm gun have an armored shield to protect the gun crew from small arms fire? If not, then it would be quite dangerous to use this weapon i a direct-fire-mode, and the commanders wouldn't employ the gun this way. Such a large gun could easily be spotted and the crew killed by riflemen. The german Infanteriegeschütze, on the other hand, offer some protection to the crew.

Thanks Lane, i honestly didn't know that, the lack of a written manual makes these "minor" cmbb functions unknown to me... how stupid...

Hi folks, comrades and Kameraden, Yesterday, during a QB in the pouring rain, it dawned to me that there was actually no rain sound. I checked back and found out that there is none of the ambience sounds being played in my CMBB games, no wind, no birds, no rain. I thought this might be due to some other sound mods i installed (only small arms & explosions though, the ambience wavs are still the original ones). I re-installed the original wav-folder, but again, no ambience was heard :mad: . (The Intro music is still being played in the game) In windows, i checked the wav-files and the media player had no problems playing the ambience wavs (00005000.wav-00005007.wav). I own the 1.0 cdv german CMBB version, patched in the meantime to 1.03. Does anyone know what to do besides thrashing my pc?

Hi von Lucke, i was basically aware that this kind of thread wasn't really new to this forum... yet i wanted to start it anyway... forgive a curious newbie I suppose you are correct with what you wrote, it matches with what i know about Barbarossa. The PzIII vs T-34 thing is surely true, in France, they had Pz I and II against Char-B's-no chance in a head-on tank duel. But those were rather seldom, IIRC, and the germans made their way, as they did in the early Barbarossa days. CMBB simulates the rarity of the early war T-34 quite well, i think. In QB's June-October 41, i mostly encounter T-26s and BT-7s when playing the german side. About the automatic weapon issue-in some book it said that up to mid-'42 the soviets sent units in the field without even enough rifles, save any heavy support stuff. Even boots were rare among these poor units. Whole battailons were sent into battle without arms, they were ordered to get themselves a rifle on the battlefield. But soon, the soviets took great pains in supplying their units with smgs, and, i think it was late 42, each 9500-men-division had 2000 of them(or was supposed to). However, the soviet infantry in CMBB is truly well equipped, right from the start, and their distinctive superiority (yet low point cost) was also what i was wondering about, not only their actual state of equipment. [ October 24, 2004, 05:15 AM: Message edited by: Krautman ]

Corvidae wrote "Also the failure to exploit manufacruring capabilitys in occupied russia, All this, combined with their failure to even attempt to win over the people of russia, made the eastern war a fiasco [...]" The human factor is another thing i am wondering about. In the northern part of the occupied SU, the german occupation administration treated the population considerably better than in the Ukraine, where german rulers displayed senseless brutality to a horrible extent. Thus, the north did contribute much more to the german war effort than other, potentially more productive, areas. I once read that the germans would have had an easier time in Russia if they hadn't treated the people that bad; they also might have supported local separatist movements, since Stalin's yoke was a tough one to bear as well. But instead, their "racial superiority" made them suppress the people who became desperate, thus swelling the ranks of the partisan movement. What would've happened if the population were treated in a humane way? Some other writer said the russians loved their rodina too much to ever seriously collaberate with the germans, but i suppose there were enough people who would have felt freed if they had been treated better.

It somehow seems apparent that Barbarossa was Hitler's fatal mistake that made him lose the war. As far as i know, there had been serious discussions among the military leaders whether the Wehrmacht was ready for such a large operation in June 41 or not, and many demanded more time for preparation. Hitler, however, was determined to attack the USSR and wanted to march as soon as possible. But, apart from the problems concerning motorization & logistics, the germans where somehow unprepared, as CMBB shows, in terms of technical development, if you compare the lower amount of automatic weapons among the infantry and the early/mid-war tanks. Soviet infantry squads, while lacking good AT capability, usually have considerably more firepower and/or ammo rating in CM than their german counterparts, and god did T-34/KV-1 tanks give me a pain in the ass in early war scenarios playing the german side. So if Barbarossa had been postponed, would the germans, being able to test ground warfare equipment&tactics in Africa, have benefited from that or rather the soviets, since their (presumably larger?) arms industry had just even started producing modern tanks in 1940/41?