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The truth is that, during the looting of Paris, it became traditional for Marder III crews to steal several of these as a sort of hood ornament for their vehicles.

Stinger missiles are anti-aircraft and would probably be all but useless against tanks. Unless you could shoot down the MiG overhead and call for an Apache... The LAW is about equivalent to a schreck and most U.S. soldiers carry one into battle. The Javelin missile is a very nice weapon and I would guess that squads would be supplied with them like CM squads are supplied with 'fausts.

Surely can't compare to the one I saw a while ago with a 12-gauge (that's a hard word to spell) main gun and a .22 coax...

Murphy's Law, paraphrased a little less abstractly: If there are two or more ways to do something, and one leads to catastrophe, someone will do it that way.

Things like spotter grade affect the time that goes on the clock. When the targeting is done out of LOS and without a TRP, the clock counts down at 30 sec per turn.

Why do we get the silly Englandish spelling of alphabetize, recognize and surprise, but the nice English spelling of defense?

I thought I would bump this one to contrast expectations and reality.

I tested 14" and 8" guns against a dug-in Sturmgruppe company spanning a hundred meters. The first 14" shell landed about 30m off target, thus 80m away from some units, and killed every man in the company. Not the first volley, the first shell. The first 8" shell was about 10m off target (these missions were fired with TRPs). It wiped out all but about 8 men, and the second shell finished the job. And these guys were in foxholes.

Is the color-disorder gene carried on the X or Y chromosome? In other words, do you find that half of one percent of women have a color disorder, or no women at all?

You are a disgrace. "the latter one" is acceptable, if you're determined to use that word, but either "the one you raise second/last" or "the second/last one" would be far superior.

The LOS tool traces a straight line, it doesn't follow ground contours. So with the slight change of angle between the brush patch and what's behind it, the line intersected blocking terrain closer to your Sherman.

Flipper, if you're serious, let's play a PBEM. I'll take infantry; you take armor. We'll see what happens.

Chuckles makes his triumphant return, and wonders if anyone misses him. Additionally, he wonders if 300-odd posts that probably don't mention him would be worth reading.

Interested. I would prefer Americans. checksix224@aol.com

I thought I just noticed last night that the Brit 3" is "very slow". Carrying that stuff "very slowly" is not unfathomable. Related, how does the 2" mortar perform? Don't think I've ever seen it in action.