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SS Pz Gr Div Totenkopf March 1943
jtcm replied to Der Alte Fritz's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
Any suggestions for the attacking force ? The article's figures should probably be given a haircut -
SS Pz Gr Div Totenkopf March 1943
jtcm replied to Der Alte Fritz's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
Could we have a scenario ? -
Tinted footage from the Russian Front
jtcm replied to Vark's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
Has it been colorized post-war, or is this original colour footage ? Good images of FIBUA-- Soviet troops hosing down buildings with HMGs, jeep mounted coupled .50s, and even field arty -
SS Pz Gr Div Totenkopf March 1943
jtcm replied to Der Alte Fritz's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
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SS Pz Gr Div Totenkopf March 1943
jtcm replied to Der Alte Fritz's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
How does a mixed Tiger / Pz III Co. fight ? To help me visualize: how would I use such a Co. in a CMBB fight, say on the attack ? Should I hang back with the Tigers (say in 3 plts), and push forward with the PzIIIs, moving with overwatch ? Should I do it the other way round, with Tiger front armour leading the way and (short) 75s in overwatch ? Should I mix (say a group of Tigers in overwatch, and two mixed fighting groups, with Tigers to deal with armour, PzIIIs to support my infantry ?) -
Um, what do you think of the Beevor book ?
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What's the newness about it ? I mean-- new archival research ? New angle ?
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Walpurgis Nacht knew those pat, in all the conditions-- the values are, indeed, fixed, and you should know them when setting out for the fight. You can do all kinds of redoubtable things, e.g. move to within 1 m of LOS and throw a satchel or fire a FT...
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Defeat at Kasserine--A meaty, groggy Master's thesis
jtcm replied to John Kettler's topic in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps
I see. Used tactically, or with strikes on the URSS proper ? -
Defeat at Kasserine--A meaty, groggy Master's thesis
jtcm replied to John Kettler's topic in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps
Is the response to that not the M1, then ? (with apologies to JasonC, who sees its emergence as organically growing out of technological changes and specific developments) -
Defeat at Kasserine--A meaty, groggy Master's thesis
jtcm replied to John Kettler's topic in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps
I don't think I have the military history culture to appreciate exactly what's going on here-- but is the following correct ? There is a conventional view that US failures at Kasserine and general performance in Europe during WWII is due to faulty doctrine (TDs fight and contain tanks, whereas tanks support infantry ? break through ??)-- due to this McNair chap-- and concomitant choices, namely insufficient armour and armament on AFVs. JasonC disputes this, on two grounds: the armour specs were actually fine for Africa and fine in Normandy too, and the doctrine was good. -Is this right ? -
yep, yep, yep
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Defeat at Kasserine--A meaty, groggy Master's thesis
jtcm replied to John Kettler's topic in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps
Was the M1 not the result of a conscious take on what was considered, if I understand JasonC correctly, tendentiously, as the results of US performance in WWII ? -
Defeat at Kasserine--A meaty, groggy Master's thesis
jtcm replied to John Kettler's topic in Combat Mission: Afrika Korps
At a slight tangent-- does the development of the M1 (with invulnerable front plates and heavy-hitting gun) fit into this debate, as seen from the post-war perspective ? I.e. the M1 as the "King Tiger" redux, and designed to prove that specs are the things that matter ? Just a thought -
50 mm mortar - useless at night?
jtcm replied to jaeger8888's topic in Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin
I take this means that in Real Life -they were supposed to fight with plts, to give them a bit more oomph; in fact, just dragged them down -they were not grouped in "50 mm batteries", like us CMBB players like to do !