Andreas

Thought that was Rune?

First experience, only. Replay is with no FOW, so not worth doing, IMO. YMMV.

All right! I picture him in a helmet that is too large and a uniform that is too tight. Michael </font>

Slums? Cool!!! </font>

Speak for yourself </font>

'Fraid not. If it has one, it is just the name (e.g. South Notts Hussars). But when it has more than one, most of the time it just has a single number. E.g. 2nd Northants Yeomanry, 6th DWLI.

That's what I wanted to have confirmed. The 131st Brigade (Queen's w/ 1/5th, 1/6th, 1/7th Queens) fought with 7th Armoured in the desert at least after Alamein, also in Italy, and in Normandy and the 'Swan'. After that two of the Queen's battalions were dissolved and replaced with 9th DLI and 2nd Devonshire.

Nice explanation, but does not explain all of it, since many battalions were just given a single number (e.g. 5th DCLI, or 1st KRRC), although their regiments were old enough to have a number before being named Then there is the case of 3/4th CLY.

Mail with my email address is out. In a 120+ turn monster I'd expect finishing sometime before christmas . BTW: Do you know "my" forces and setup zones or just yours? Gruß Joachim </font>

Yes. You're welcome.

Holy cow - I want to know what this guy has been drinking! :eek: :eek:

Thanks other means - 'paradigm' was indeed the word I was looking for.

Sure - I dig out the other one Cory sent to me and send you a setup tonight. We'll see if your turnrates can possibly beat mine in slovenliness

Sadly, too true. Even against things like SPW 251/1s that ought to really take notice when a Molotov is tossed into the crew compartment. </font>

Okhvat Station my PBEM partner just disappeared for a long time, not sure if I can pick it up again. Gorodok - that is the one in AG North? If so, I can comment a bit on it. I'll see if I find somebody else to play for the others. I like the maps (would like them even more if you took my advice ) and I like the whole setting. The trouble is to find a PBEM partner for the big ones.

While we are on that topic (and because I am too lazy to do a search), what does a British naming such as 1/7th Queens mean? I know that it could be an indication that at some point battalions were merged (e.g. 3/4th CLY in Normandy), but was that always the case, or could there be another reason for it?

Bloody students. If I had my way, they'd all be volunteering for a summer day out on the Somme. Taught some of the lot yesterday - they had the audacity to ask me questions. Or want to talk about stuff that was not covered in my presentation. Twits.

Did someone make a noise just now?

So, you have figured out how to do up the laces then?</font>

Barrels were one problem, supply of Wolfram (Tungsten) for the ammunition the other. A number of very promising squeeze-bore guns were developed, but shortage of metal for ammunition and the very heavy barrel wear (500 shots) killed them all off. For its weight, the sPzB41 was a superb weapon - a stripped down version of it for airlanding use weighed just 118 kg (less than the average couch-potato), while the standard variety weighed 229kg, and it achieved far better results in the AT role than the PAK35/36 which weighed 435kg. It could be found in AT companies on regimental level until early 1943 I believe. CMBB does not model the HE round that was available for the gun.

Los, 'collusion' is almost certainly the wrong word. Can't think of one to describe what I want to say that is not loaded to some extent. My point was that these officers would reinforce each others' beliefs - not necessarily consciously, but just by working around each other all the time. AIUI many of them were co-located, because they were still deemed POW. Regarding dissemination etc. Armies are complex organisations. They do not often give the right incentives at the right time. They quite often seem to reward 'being one of us', and punish thinking outside the box. At least that is what it seems like from the outside. A different failure of intelligence (in this case failure to convey a message from the front to the rear) was the US intel analysis failure to detect the German build-up to 'Wacht am Rhein', where the local officers seemed to have a good idea that something was about to happen, but higher ups did not want to listen. On a personal note - when I was promoted to Gefreiter after six months' service in April 1989, our Squadron commander (a captain) gave us a rabble-rousing speech about how the Soviets could not be trusted, that they were still building hundreds of fighter-jets and tanks every month, and that we had to be on our guard against their treachery. Two weeks later he left to become a major and responsible for political/social education of conscripts in the Luftwaffe. About six months later the Warsaw Pact collapsed. It was clear to me while listening to him that while he clearly lived on the same planet as me, he was in a different world.

So, you have figured out how to do up the laces then? BTW - We think he is properly referred to as Famine. Names are for unimportant people, you know.

You can find an article on the development of the Soviet tank forces on Red Army Studies under 'Articles', and if you click on 'Soviet Index' it will take you to a database of articles from Soviet military journals that will help you with the practice, and maybe the theory as well (note to serlf: need to go through the list). Hope that helps.

We think that it behooves us to now acknowledge the good services rendered (sit down Mace) to us by Jack Carr as our prophet. He is far superior to our other prophets. Therefore, we see it fit to elevate him to the rank of 'exalted one', which means he may have two cups of tea, where others have one. May he lead the celebration on his ascension. Bow before me ! Yours sincerely, War!

Los Don't think we are much in disagreement. I just wanted to add that I think the German officers participating in those studies had the opportunity for some mass-collusion, since they were all working in the same location. Being around the same people all day, working on the same project, can influence your views. I have read German officer accounts or studies from outside this project that read quite differently to me, many of them published in the 'Die Wehrmacht im Kampf' series, or later in the 'Einzelschriften zur Militaergeschichte' of the military history institute of the Bundeswehr. On a personal point, my grandfather does only refer to 'ordeal', when he is speaking about his service in Army Group North, when he is referring to the Russians he fought. Not himself. Regarding over/underestimation - I had a conversation with an extremely well-read former German officer who participated in wrapping up the NVA in the early 1990s. He is also of the opinion that NATO vastly over-estimated Soviet/Warsaw Pact capabilities, based on what he saw. His line was that they had good doctrine, but just were too hidebound in implementation and training. Good discussion.