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  1. 3 hours ago, StieliAlpha said:

    And documented, please. Not "heard of".

    No, I don't buy that "re-manning" was a relevant practice.

     

    You didn't read my post properly. I meant "I heard of" because that is what I wanted to say. It is very unlikely that, even though I read into the topic for a good 20 years, I know more than 1 percent of these cases. To say iI know all cases "documented" would be a gross overstatement.

    In an Army in which most Armoured Divisions operated in understrenght most of the time, and in which divisional staff on occasion bribed factory managers to get resupply (German Army on the Eastern Front and generally late in the war) salvaging as much as possible was very much an vital practice.

     

  2. Back to the accuracy topic:

    I too have the impression that at some stage in the recent past, BF must have changed something about the Panzerschreck (PzSch) Accuracy. I am playing the "Courage Conquers" Campaign of CMFB right now and have suffered 6 first-shot hits from PzSch at 170m+ ranges in just three missions. Plus I killed two enemy tanks with PzSch-first shots at 180m + in a single PBEM. I never experienced something like that before, in all allied campaigns I played up till then combined I didn't take so many Hits. My SOP said: "getting within 100m of a PzSch is no serious threat to tanks" and "Panzerschreck is useless above 50m".

    Yeah, I know, I know just anecdotal, no statistical base and so on. But still, experience of years is suddenly totally reversed. That is odd.

    I already wondered if this is a bug.

  3. On 1.7.2016 at 7:00 AM, user1000 said:

    I think that is really stupid..

    Yeah, I cursed about the inability to re-man Anti-Tank Guns many a time. Especially when you see spotting rounds, your AT Gun has no foxholes and you are perfectly aware they gonna hit your ATG. You can do a damn about saving the crew. In real life the only sensible thing would be to get into cover, wait out the strike and return to the gun-position to see if it is still serviceable.

    On 30.6.2016 at 5:59 PM, StieliAlpha said:

    Dozens? In a 6 year war. With millions of casualties. Tens of thousands destroyed tanks.

    I don't think that is statically relevant.

    Probaly not worth a minute of programming.

    Duh. Dozens I heard of. Tanks are among the most valuable battlefield assets, so any Army goes to great lengths to keep as many aviable as possible. 

  4. On 23.6.2016 at 10:11 PM, Michael Emrys said:

    Yike! I'd call that more than a little workaround. I just break one down into the parts as listed on the purchase screen. I usually just want one company or platoon anyway, so it's no big deal to delete the rest right there and then.

    Michael

    I think we talk about different things here - I described what I do to find out the composition and especially the armament of an outfit. I did that once with every new CM game or module to familiarize me with the new units. So basically it is testing

    What you describe is normal purchasing.

  5. 5 hours ago, markus544 said:

     A single perfect tank cannot offer the same combat power as ten adequate but imperfect tanks....The Chrysler Corporation history of their tank building effort in WW II concluded "our tanks were better because the Germans never learned to think in terms of reliability as we use the word, that is, maximum performance with minimum care and replacement.  ... The Sherman was not the best tank of World War II, but it was good enough.

    Perfectly true. One or two conceptual flaws but solid engineering.

    In the Big Cats, we produced the best tactical tanks, but at the same tank the worst operational tanks of WWII. We tend to over-engineer stuff, which becomes less durable in the process. Was like that back then, is better but not all gone today.

    BTW Belton Coopers book "Death Traps" has been ripped apart on historical inaccuracies in forums all over the web. Just typical for "History-FUBAR Channel" to use such a man as main protagonist in a "Documentary". Man I wish back the times, were journalists actually tried to give valid information to the public, instead of slobbering for nothing but viewing levels, no matter he cost.

     

  6. I guess BF has researched the TO&E correctly. They usually do and if not - the (WWII-)British Army is in CMx2 games ever since CMBN-Commonwealth so the error would have been most likely corrected by now.

    Just theorizing here:

    British wartime industry was at it's limits just as was their funding - maybe they just didn't have the rescources? I suspect their prime concern was their Navy as it was "Mission critical" to not loosing through starvation and even though the U-Boat-thread had been all but anihilated by 1944, maybe they still got most of the rescources allocated?

  7. 9 hours ago, Big Boss said:

    I don't know about if the names themselves represent a Jew but a quick search on the Volksbund.de:s Gräbersuche-Online show some of the number of fallen German soldiers with the names you mentioned

    Nussbaum = 160

    Altschuler = 0 (but 697 Schuler)

     

    Other Yiddish names

    Salomon = 457

    Levin = 57

    Stern = 614

    Just the names doesn't probably tell the whole story...

    Did you filter for WWII? Because in WWI Jews served and sacrificed for Germany just as everyone else called to arms.

     

     

    9 hours ago, ASL Veteran said:

    There were actual Jewish German soldiers serving in the Wehrmacht.  At least the the soldiers considered themselves Jewish.  I seem to recall some personal accounts to that effect.

    edited because I'm not sure the Wehrmacht considered the soldiers to be Jewish, but the soldiers certainly considered themselves to be Jewish.

    True, but these were extremely rare cases with "Special-permission".

     

    There are only 100.000 Jews left today in Germany - my bottom line is the Nazis were so thorough in their genocide, I am quite sure there were no jewish names in the Wehrmacht by any practical measures.

     

    Can anyone tell me where I can find the files for the names and how to edit them?

     

    Morbo

  8. I am playing a CMFB Scenario at the moment, commanding a German Panzergrenadier Company and spotted two squad leaders by the name of Nussbaum and Altschuler. Those are Jewish names and everybody in Germany with such a name was in a desperate fight for his life in 1944, but not on the frontlines.

    Somehow it saddens me to see, please change with the next patch.

  9. On 20.5.2016 at 9:30 PM, Erwin said:

    Courage & Fortitude is an xnt "reality check" campaign when you think you've become good at CM2.  Also, the final or maybe penultimate campaign mission is excellent - one the best CM2 battles ever imo.  You get a battalion+ of inf plus a reinforced company of armor, plus lots of support, assorted vehicles and arty.

    I hated that last mission. My battalion was already bled white and I still had to take that goddam town.

    This was a reality check in more than one way: it was a vivid lesson in history. After it, I really started to grasp what the human cost of war means. Sending your men through that cover-devoid marsh against HMGs and then over that goddam ridge, and watch helplessly while they get torn to shreds by mortar-barrages and machinegun-fire told me more about the damage dealt to humans in war, physically and mentally, than 15 years of documentaries and books could.

  10. Spolier alert!!!

    Hey Wodin,

    don't worry too much! I've lost 37 men, 2 tanks and a halftrack, plus my mortar platoon got wrecked. I would say you got away pretty smoothly. On top of that, have a look at the after action screen: IIRC the numerical relationship between attacker and defender was about 1:1 or very close to it. Very far away form an reasonable numerical superiority for an attcking force of 3:1!

    This is one hell of a first mission!

  11. On 9.5.2016 at 1:16 AM, Atago said:

    I am usually getting my butt kicked by the AI but managed to get through this one somehow through good luck (not skill, I suspect) and won a major victory. 

     I tried mission 2 in the CMBN courage and fortitude again after this one, put me back in my place really quick (I so hate that mission, but am determined to beat it someday!).

    You get stomped by the AI?
     Lt.Col. Pauldings (ret.) will help you out of your misery! In my eyes by far the best wargaming tactics tutorial I've seen so far. What is especially interesting for you is the fact that he discusses Mission 2 of 'Courage and Fortitude' in detail! (Oh, it still was a nigthmare but I managed it) I just use the opportunity to re-post it for newcomers to find - spread the wisdom, you know? :)

     

     

    Best regards

    Morbo

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