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Second this. Though the ops should have a better rule for the front line between battles. Gruß Joachim

German optics - Carl Zeiss factory captured and relocated to American sector. German rocket propulsion. The first man in space was a Soviet, the first men on the moon Americans - but guess which scientists sent them there. German photo paper. Osnabrück was captured by a plt - but a comapny secured the nearby factory. German jet fighter planes. Gruß Joachim

We just celebrate. We don't need a reason. Gruß Joachim

On VE day some obscure Army Group Central did still fight the Soviets. On May 9th the Germans capitulated in the Soviet HQ (after bringing a few more troops to the right area.) Gruß Joachim

Rumors are that Rommel orchestrated a withdrawal of the Western front. This could not happen without the SS divisions. Thus Himmler might have known a few things... But the other guys... hey, the resistance did not want to kill anybody. They were a bunch of nice guys uneasy with what they were doing. After all the same guy to deliver the deadly bomb in the Wolfsschanze should be the one to lead the coup in Berlin. Gruß Joachim

"Schnell! Gib in der Verkehrszentrale Bescheid! Sie rollen wieder mit ihren Wohnwägen an!" ("Quick! Radio traffic control! Tha annual assault of trailers and mobile homes has started!" Note: If you've ever driven on German Autobahnen during the summer, you'll know what I mean...) Gruß Joachim [ May 07, 2004, 08:07 AM: Message edited by: Joachim ]

Dunno if you can count them - Cannaris was anti-Hitler after all (eg he deliberately warned Franco against joining the war!!), and so seeming "ineptitude" on the part of the Abwhere might have been part of his cunning plan!! Of course his plan wasn't quite so cunning when he was executed in 1944!! </font>

Using your brain before and afterwards helps. Before for planning as mentioned above and afterwards to see what you did wrong and what you could have done better. For learning, I even suggest you replay turns. Start an attack, see how/if it works and then try it with a different approach, using different commands. Replaying whole games might not have the same effect, as you can't isolate the tactics used for a certain small action as well. Gruß Joachim

It's "The Iron Roadblock". If you already looked among those starting with "T" - tough luck. Maybe someone can send it to you, as it is not available at the scenario depot. Gruß Joachim [ May 07, 2004, 04:02 AM: Message edited by: Joachim ]

The tank has 3 huge advantages: 1.) It has more firepower than a individual squad 2.) It is better protected vs small arms 3.) Close counts with HE The squads has only 2 advantages 1.) It can hide and surprise 2.) It can cross terrain a tank can't. Use your advantages, deny the tank its advantages. And you can only achieve this with stealth and by killing the tank before it can fire at your squad. Other tips: The projectile is very slow - thus stationary targets are much easier to hit than mobile ones. The probatility to hit is low. It gets much bigger if the range closes. Do not try to fire from within buildings - backblast! Patience. Button the tank. If you open up with rifles to button the tank, you will get spotted. Let somebody else shoot to button the tank before you attack it. Keep enemy inf at bay. Gruß Joachim

Now I would not call them duels... it is just that there is no English word for what he did and you do some kind of fencing with sharp weapons. Usually the worst thing to happen is to get such a significant scar on the cheek - what is still scary enough for many. Gruß Joachim

Nice work. What is missing is the availability dates - they are given for some ammo types, but not for the units. Gruß Joachim

Excel 97 accepts Lotus- and Works-Sheets. Dunno about newer versions. A standard format could be .csv. Most (All?) spreadsheet programs should accept these. OTOH using files incompatible to excel would ultimately force MS to do sumfink about their compatibility issues. Gruß Joachim [ May 06, 2004, 03:29 AM: Message edited by: Joachim ]

I am sorry comrade, but am I reading you right in saying that the superior fighting prowess bestowed by steeping in Soviet doctrine had nothing to do with stopping the Hamstergrenadiere? Time for a spot of re-edification, methinks? Just wait, I have a nice hammer here to keep you company down in the coal-mine for the next, uh, 25 years or thereabouts. </font>

Have you tried the following: Ceasefire game Go to map from AAR screen save battle load that save into editor IIRC it works if it was a predesigned scen. Dunno if it works for maps imported into QBs

3 sPz Abteilungen with 3 companies each. Even on paper this means 10 companies including the detachment in the Lehr. Each comapny has 14 tanks, giving 140 tanks on paper. Most sPzAbteilungen did not arrive with their full complement of Tigers then there are many non-runners. My guestimate is there were 70 Tigers, some of them under repair with several non-runners under repair further back. I doubt there were 50 Tigers operational in Normandy at a given day. Consider Wittman's company strength at Villers Bocage. 5 runners plus one going to repair - and the company had probably not seen combat there before. What might be included in the 33 figure is allied vehicles, not just armor. That still won't explain the number. But I guess most of us wonder "how is this figure 33 calculated when JasonC shows it can't be real". So we have saome guestimated: 50% off for crews overcounting 33 % minus several vehicles misid'd or just counted as "armor" 20% Tigers that never reached the front or never saw combat 1:33 1:17.5 "haircut" 1:12 "other vehicles with some kind of armor" 1:6 TWOs opposed to killed 1:5 for all Tigers seeing deployment And I get exactly what JasonC wants. With just guestimates for the percentages used. Guestimated before seeing the result of 5 in the end. Statistics are just worthless if you don't have exact definitions. Gruß Joachim [ May 05, 2004, 07:56 AM: Message edited by: Joachim ]

Just stumbled over an old copy of PG on my old harddisk that I keep as backup in my PC. Modified campaign with more core (and more enemy) units on hard. Failed to capture England... Now I am setting sights on Kiev. So easy... so unsophisticated... so retro... such a classic! Gruß Joachim

Your third (out of two) point is not valid - Russian rabbit population in areas occupied by Germany in late war is almost completely void of rabbits until recently. Despite relentless efforts and incentives by the Soviet government (operation rapid rabbit raising) the rabbits were unable to cope with the horrenduous losses suffered at the hands of the advancing Soviet armies. Soviet soldiers not hiding in rabbit holes in the early years is partially due to a non-aggression pact between the Union of Soviet Rabbits and the USSR. Soviet soldiers did not enter the territory of the foxholes and German soldiers risked their life as the Soviets supplied lots of weapons to the rabbits. Actually, it was the rabbits that ultimately stopped the German juggernaut. the Hamstergrenadiere - as often portrayed on this board - had their origins in fighting the rabbits on their home turf but were unable to survive the harsh Sovier winter. Gruß Joachim [ May 05, 2004, 08:19 AM: Message edited by: Joachim ]

This is the exact question that I've been alluding to the whole time. If there is half the chance to hit you when you're hull down (say) but your turret armour is 1/3rd the thickness of your hull, then it sounds like you wanna stay hull up.... that's the judgement that I'm trying to make, and looking for rules of thumb for... </font>

If you think about it a second, there's a pretty obvious reason for that. It's pretty cramped inside an AFV, so shorter men would be able to fit in and move around more easily. Especially important for loaders, but I imagine the rest of the crew would appreciate being less cramped as well. Michael </font>

OTOH heavy men travel faster and the increase of size results in a 2-dimensional surface yet a 3-dimensional body thus the cubed weight outweighs the squared wind resistance and thus we have yet again that with equal proportions tall men travel faster. Gruß Joachim

The Maginot line was a huge amount of linked bunkers. Everything was deep underground - crew compartments, kitchens, hospitals. It sported gun turrets that could move up, fire and then move down again. Much more than the Siegfried line did ever achieve. Just imagine a series of cruisers and destroyers built inside mountains - and several parts had a river in front of it. It is realy impressing. Except that a potential attacker knows that he has mostly static troops to cope with and thus most of the defenders are not available for counterattacks. Plus the attacker has a river as natural obstacle to protect his frontline and with a thin front, air recce and mobile reserves can concentrate most of its assets on a few selected breakthru areas - even if these were just a showcase as the real thing happened to the North of it). Gruß Joachim

Yes. Use in ops depends on map type. Aggressive night patrols for the attacker... or the defender! Gruß Joachim

BCR is still available. Gruß Joachim

Search for PzIV or Pz-IV (IIRC in the CMBB forum). The tests were done for that vehicle. There are 2-3 threads. Guess there is the info and a link to the others in this one: http://www.battlefront.com/cgi-bin/bbs/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=23;t=009490;p=3 Gruß Joachim [ May 03, 2004, 03:31 AM: Message edited by: Joachim ]