Hannibal

osprey has 3 books in their Man at Arms series about the italian army in WW2 . [ August 11, 2003, 10:14 PM: Message edited by: Hannibal ]

Does anybody know how many new Italian squad types will be in Cmak .Will the P26 be included .I assume there will be different uniforms for the fronts .

When would you say the German and Russian forces are most in balance ?In the early war the Russians have the T-34 and K-v the germans do not have much of a answer .Then there is the time frame when the Panther and Tiger are out and the Russian only have the t-34 .So when are the armour forces of both side most even ?

The K-85 seems to be the equal of the tiger .I like it beter than the t-34-85 because of the extra armour .With rarity turned of it is not that much more expensive than the T-34 .

Since the main problem with the IS-2 is the slow reload on the main gun and the lack of Ammo .Are the KV-85 or the IS-1 better tanks than the IS-2. [ May 10, 2003, 12:20 PM: Message edited by: Hannibal ]

It would be interesting to see soviet tank losses from d-day on . The russians did fight the german armoured forces when they were at their peak .I assume german armour from a numbers standpoint not qualiy of tanks was much diminished from 41-43 .

From what I have read the ratio of Soviet tanks lost to German tanks lost was between 4 or 5 to one .Does anybody know what the ratio was on the western front ? [ May 05, 2003, 11:43 PM: Message edited by: Hannibal ]

I took the IS-3 up against King Tigers was shooked at how well it stood up to fire .

Well since there are so many quality computer wargames coming out now adays that is good sratagy .We as a group are a picky lot .

After taking the IS-2 up against forces containing Panthers and Tigers and getting beat pretty consistanly .I decided to try the IS-3 out .While you still have the problem of the slow reload and low ammo supply .The extra armour makees a big difference .Also I my be wrong but they seem to stand their ground more and not back away like the IS-2 seems to do .It was fun taking on King tigers and beating them in my IS-3 .

t-34 vs t-34 good one.How about captured T-34 vs Sherman ?

I was reading the oprey new Vangaurd book on the Serman tank .The the Sherman 76 only made up about 10 percent of the Shermans produced .Does anybody know wha sort of rarity penalty there will be in CMAK? It will be interesting going up agains Tigers and Panthers with forces concisting of Sherman 75s . [ April 19, 2003, 10:02 AM: Message edited by: Hannibal ]

In one on one fight what 2 tanks in CMBB do you think are the most evenly matched ?I find the t-34 85 and the late model PIV are pretty closely matched . [ April 19, 2003, 12:49 AM: Message edited by: Hannibal ]

Thanks for the info .

I was getting some rear shots and at one time attacked with 3 tanks at about the same time .I think I just had bad luck

I played a meeting engagement in which I took 12 t-34 85s against 3 King Tigers .I was able to get many shoots from within 100 meters but was only able to take out one King Tiger ,Most of my shoots broke up .Now did I have really bad luck or is the King Tiger that Invunerable ?I am not saying what happened was not realistic I am jus asking . [ April 13, 2003, 03:01 AM: Message edited by: Hannibal ]

Does anyone know what Armour the French had in North Africa ?I am talking about Vichy French and Free French . [ April 07, 2003, 08:48 PM: Message edited by: Hannibal ]

Plus when looking at causualty figures I do not think that germanys eastern front allies are included .

While the UK might have an advantage against tanks he russians with their higher caliber guns have an advantage against infantry . The Is-2 the isu-152 and isu-122 even the t34-85 all have higher caliber than their western counterparts .

Whose forces out of the USA, UK and USSR gives the germans the hardest time .I guess to be fair we have to limit the USSR to after D-Day . So would you rather face the germans with T-34 85s and Su152;s or would you rather have Shermans and m-36 .How about Cromwells and Fireflys ?How do you think the russian infantry and artilery fairs in comparison to the US and the UK ?

Ok this may be a dumb question but what language is hungarian relaed to ?

I expected the tigers to be tough .But the PzIIIs are tougher than I expected .

Has anybody had any luck playing this game as the Russians .I have tired standing up to the germanys and flanking the germans .Got my head handed to me both times .

Andreas Where did you get the book TM30-430 .

cool .Thanks for the info