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Sgt. Steiner

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  1. IMO, the Germans should have continued building the Tiger I. By late '44 they had worked the bugs out of it, and it could still more than hold its own against the Allied tanks, considering its 30 to 1 kill ratio. With the Tiger II, the Tiger teething problems returned all over again. Using the Tiger I engine in the much heavier Tiger II did not help matters any either. It seems to me the Germans would have been much better served with the Henschel factory continuing to pump out the proven Tiger I's..

  2. Another reason the Russians shot so many of their own is that quite simply, it was against Red Army regulations to surrender.

    This was used as an excuse to execute or send to the gulags the hundreds of thousands of Russian POW's liberated at war's end. Along with the reasoning that the POW's had been exposed to harmful Western influence while in captivity. Didn't want that rubbing off on the rest of the Red Hordes.. :rolleyes:

  3. Originally posted by RMC:

    Can't say for sure what the resistance level of the armored block is, but it couldn't have been all that much since they were apparently prone to damage and replaced often.

    Just got the video Panzers-Marsch!, and part of it is a training film for Panther crews. The tank commander is shown replacing damaged vision blocks in the commander's cupola, so it must indeed have been a very common occurrence. Awesome video BTW, in addition to the Panther training film, there is a second one for 251 half-tracks, and some great footage of Tigers at Kursk..
  4. Well, BFC have said a while back that the third game would be North Africa/Italy/Greece(?), and that the fourth game would be early western front, i.e. 1939/40. I would imagine anything more modern would have to be after that.

    I hope they at least do Italy & North Africa before leaving WW2 behind. France/Low Countries/Norway would be OK I suppose, but doesn't interest me nearly as much. Looking forward to Tobruk, El Alamein, Anzio, Monte Cassino, etc...

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