Michael Emrys

It's just another example of Hollywood sensationalism. Feel free to ignore.
Michael

It's just another example of Hollywood sensationalism. Feel free to ignore.
Michael

Purely on the basis of looks, I like the IS-2. To me, it looks very serious and businesslike. It is there to kill people and that's what it looks like.
That's a trait shared with the somewhat later M46 Patton tank.
Michael

I haven't tried to find any websites on the subject, but forty years or so ago I was collecting books and magazines devoted to it. I no longer have them in my possession, but one title sticks out in my memory: Panzer Colors. If you try searching under that name, you might come up with something.
Michael

I tried following my own advice and immediately came up with this:
https://www.amazon.com/Panzer-Colors-Camouflage-German-1939-1945/dp/0897470575 
There are apparently three volumes, so depending on how much you are willing to spend, you could get quite a lot of information. And Squadron/Signal usually does a pretty good job with this sort of thing.
Michael

A copy of this fortuitously fell into my hands almost 40 years ago that had the markings for both the German and British vehicles in North Africa complete with paint chips. I relied on it when I painted my 1/285th. miniatures and they turned out just fine. I still had my copy up until three years ago when it went out with my library in The Big Clean Out. The instructions for Floquil were a life saver.
Michael

I think most of the problem with tD doctrine was that by the time large numbers of the machines and the battalions equipped with them were available in the theater, the threat that they were intended to counter, i.e. large formations of attacking German armor, had gone away. Furthermore, everything that a TD could do, the newer generation of tanks could do and maybe even do it better, in addition to a few things that the TDs never did too well.
Michael

Or even ten year olds. They work faster and aren't as distracted by girls.

Michael

I think most of the problem with tD doctrine was that by the time large numbers of the machines and the battalions equipped with them were available in the theater, the threat that they were intended to counter, i.e. large formations of attacking German armor, had gone away. Furthermore, everything that a TD could do, the newer generation of tanks could do and maybe even do it better, in addition to a few things that the TDs never did too well.
Michael

I think most of the problem with tD doctrine was that by the time large numbers of the machines and the battalions equipped with them were available in the theater, the threat that they were intended to counter, i.e. large formations of attacking German armor, had gone away. Furthermore, everything that a TD could do, the newer generation of tanks could do and maybe even do it better, in addition to a few things that the TDs never did too well.
Michael

Or even ten year olds. They work faster and aren't as distracted by girls.

Michael

I think that gets the Most Obscure Post of the Month award.

Michael

I think that gets the Most Obscure Post of the Month award.

Michael

Actually, it was a hallucination occasioned by overindulgence in pickled herring.

Michael

Somehow I don't think historical authenticity was a high priority with this movie company.
 
Michael

But the thing that you need to keep in sight is that they are not likely to arrive at that state during the brief course of a one or two hour CM firefight. If we are talking about a multi-day campaign, then yes, this depth of fatigue becomes a real problem. But for a single scenario, not so likely.
Michael

Now here's the thing: Although I can't quote exact figures, I'm pretty sure that most of the energy needs of German industry were supplied by coal, like with most other industrial powers. And Germany had coal in abundance, more than it could use. They had so much that they were even turning all they could into synthetic petroleum, not primarily to fuel industry but to try to train pilots for the Luftwaffe and for other tactical uses.
Michael

Check. I agree.
Now this is the part I don't get. Why is oil singled out as the causative factor in Germany's inability to match American production? Germany's prewar automotive industry was never a match for the US and did not have the other industries that could be converted to the production of tanks, APCs (in this era usually halftracks), and trucks and other miscellaneous vehicles required by a modern mechanized army.
Michael
 

Here's what I am thinking now. BFC has chosen not to model the effects of long-term sleep deprivation. They just didn't try to go there. Instead, what they are modeling is the more or less temporary effect of greater than normal exertion. They are winded after running up a hillside in hot weather while perhaps carrying heavy equipment or something of the sort. Recovering from that only takes a few or many minutes, depending on how deep that weariness extends, but it does not effect judgement and perception the way that sleep deprivation does.
Sleep deprivation, especially if prolonged, is a different animal. It does effect performance and is not much effected by just taking a breather. In short, troops are not apt to show any recovery during the course of a CM game. For better or worse, it simply is not modeled in CM. We can argue over whether or not it should be present, but as usual, I expect BFC to keep its own council on this issue.
Michael

Exactly. While he seems to have gotten better as he has gained experience in this field, his earlier efforts are hobbled by all the things he doesn't know. This leads him to make shallow and misguided conclusions at times. As is sometimes said of books about the war, these shows are okay as an introduction to their subjects for those new to them, but should not be relied on as an authority.
Michael

How I should have gotten laid a lot more as a young man.
Michael

One thing I would like to see if it could be implemented without an excessive amount of hassle, would be a feature allowing a player to check on a potential movement path or static location and find out how easily his unit could be spotted from a specified possible enemy location. I am aware that this is a complicated issue, which is why I used the caveat "without an excessive amount of hassle". To some extent the game already does this in that any terrain that blocks LOS gets factored. What I am mainly concerned with is such things as skylining, where the critical terrain is behind the unit being potentially spotted. Avoiding skylining is a crucial skill taught to well-trained troops whether infantry or vehicular. At present, if there is an LOS traceable between spotter and "spottee" (for lack of a better term), there is a die roll and spotting occurs or not depending on the outcome of the die roll. What I am suggesting is that in a case where the subject unit might be skylined, the odds of a successful spot go way up.
Michael

Exactly. While he seems to have gotten better as he has gained experience in this field, his earlier efforts are hobbled by all the things he doesn't know. This leads him to make shallow and misguided conclusions at times. As is sometimes said of books about the war, these shows are okay as an introduction to their subjects for those new to them, but should not be relied on as an authority.
Michael

The thing is, the icons already change their size depending on the unit's distance from the camera. If your suggestion were implemented, it could get confusing.
Michael

(solicitously) Where would you like the body sent?

Michael