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I suspect it is. I notice it in my professional life with younger people. Requires a whole different approach based around very short snappy chunks of info! Still too much text on these old books and you can’t interact with anything

He! Aye for sure

Ha! Ha! Excellent story! I always have to explain my book collection when people come to visit. I feel I need to provide context to what they are seeing! Luckily majority of my close friends ‘get it’ and are mildly interested in the subject themselves Yeah never read MK and never will.

I fell down this rabbit hole when doing some research on panzer crew training for my panzer tactics series. Its interesting this approach still resonates in more modern military manuals, guess attention spans of teens has not changed that much in 80 odd years...!

Just uploaded new version (v.5) with couple of minor tweaks.

I’m hoping it’ll be an interesting challenge either way Look forward to hearing how it pans out. Awra best!

Even doing things ‘correctly’ bad stuff still happens. I thought I’d eliminated all enemy units in this vid clip. Moved up a BIFV to dismount some guys to clear woods. A key holed unsupressed, unidentified RPG 29 team did their job. sometimes you just have to roll with the punches. Doing saves to eliminate poor decisions or unlucky events teaches bad habits IMO - which will bite you on the arse the first PvP game you play.

Sorry for tardy reply - been busy few weeks. Aye nicely done - I’m proud of that part of the battle Yeah the later part of this action does become very CQB. Will be a contrast to mission 3 for sure. thx for sharing the AAR much appreciated thank you Tìoraidh!

Oh aye for sure. That was a key reason for creating this action. Great to see it being appreciated Oh yeah - the 501st’s record through August 1944 was so poor that on the 22nd August 1944 Major von Legat was relieved of his command. It is was also reported that he had links to the 20th July 1944 conspiracy to kill Hitler. I can't find out anything else about him post event, though guess somewhere there might be his service record if it was not destroyed during the war. Oh the 501 was later reformed as sPz. Abt. 424 45 Tiger IIs and some Tiger Is, and was under the command of Major Saemisch. he led his whole unit into an ambush at Lissow in January 1945 most likely due to poor prior recce and/or misleading intelligence. The village was already occupied by JS-2 tanks and anti-tank guns. The result was that the majority of Tigers were either destroyed or lost to bad terrain. Terrible of echoes of the action in and around Ogledow four or so months earlier...

Yeah the combat record of the 501st during this and subsequent actions in the Sandomierz bridgehead was generally unimpressive. Possibly due to the original battalion being all but destroyed attempting to hold back Soviet attacks during Operation Bagration. Such catastrophic events would mean few of the experienced crews would survive to help form the cadre for the new unit to be rebuilt around. The 501st was reconstituted on the 14th July 1944 with the new Tiger IIs but this only gave the whole unit around a month to reform and train on the new vehicles, and as a combat unit, before being sent into action – perhaps therein lays the reasons for the lacklustre performance of the new tanks and their crews through August 1944? Oh and overconfidence in the new vehicle... Its worth noting that whilst this event figures highly in Soviet reports - due no doubt to meeting the Tiger II for the first time and giving the wunderwaffe weapon a kicking - German accounts are very scarce. there are reports from other units but nothing specific to this event from the unit involved - least as far as i could find in available English sources. The Soviet side has loads of versions based on the original Soviet reports (all of which repeat the incorrect date change so assume no-one repeating this has bothered to doubel check....). Why did they attack? Well at the tactical level it is an odd decision for sure - no recce prior so they drove straight into an ambush. Some infantry support but they seem to not figure at all in Soviet reports and would appear did not even engage in any patrol activity. Its an interesting event which poses more questions that it answers for sure

Yes - there is a face direction option available now in AI plans. Sorry I forgot to remove that bit from what is an old aide memoire...

Aye you have to hit the 'GO' button for the AI controlled units to shift their position. Also AI units will only shift position if a/ they have been allocated a AI group and b/ that AI group then ha s new set-up position painted in the AI plan under 'set-up'. Oh and also check the AI plan is activated... Yup if to be played H2H you will need set-up zones for both sides.

Jings! These T-34s have sure evolved...

No target arcs on the T-34s. They reacted on their own volition. As my opponent sent the Tiger that route I can only assume he was unaware they were there, and hence so was the Tiger.

The Tiger did see them but only after he'd past the, The trees are switched off but both T-34s were in reverse slope position hidden in trees. The Tiger appears to have not known they were. he's moving at full speed. Once he's level he starts to spot them but there are two and it takes time for the Tiger's turret to traverse - all the time he's rolling along in the opposite direction the gun is traversing. I don't think its not odd spotting BTW more showing how slow the Tiger turret traverse it. The RHS T-34 got the first shot off which bounced. Just takes time to swung that but old turret around. EDIT: The T-34s knew he was coming - shared radio info and then they had a sound contcat. I assume the Tiger had no such knowledge. In fact I'm certain he had no info they were there.

Live action combat film from the front lines.

Yeah I ignored myself as well when I played it as a PBEM. I went hunting for the IS-IIs. Narrator: don't do this kids.

Ah excellent! Appreciate your feedback and appreciation. Its grand to hear these wee training scenarios are appreciated. Aye I think TTP No2 is the hardest one as the fighting ends up being close range, so more of a 'dice throw' as in 'he who spots first fires first' sort of thing. I have a few French pals so think I'd go more Gallic! Probably more -"Qu'est-ce-que tu fais!" As I once heard a French Guide say repeatedly to his hapless client as they grovelled their way up a sport climb at Orpierre. He 'said' it a few times, getting louder each time, but the poor chap at the other end didnae grasp the meaning! Thank you again for your kind feedback!

Way to go - excellent and nicely executed

@Bootie's da man.

He! Cheers ta I've gone in and edited my Word dictionary cos I'd the wrong spelling in that...

.... bloody spelling and languages....

Cheers ta! Yeah it's a learning curve! Aye just spotted the typo. Doh!! Yeah I'll live with that and try harder next time... My spelling is rubbish in English never mind German...

This video covers the translation of one section (Section IV) from a larger pocket-sized booklet, printed by the German military during the later stages of the Second World War titled 'Panzer Hilft Dur!' translates as 'Panzer Helps You!' Section IV in ‘Panzer Helps You!’ covers the mittlerer Schützenpanzerwagon (Sd.Kfz.251), known as the m.S.P.W. or just S.P.W. To provide context I have included a couple of primers regarding the Sd.Kfz. 251 and German SPW advice on correct use and deployment of SPW.

Yeah I was surprised it worked. They key was totally supressing anyone and everything that could possibly engage the incoming SPW. The attack on the left flank did not fair as well but still succeeded. The enemy had a position on a reverse slope I'd not clocked or supressed so flanking fire did knock some gunners down at close range. But as all good propaganda films do I only showed the good bit!