Stalin's Organ

Ah yah wus!! U've got fausts haven't ya, and htere's only 2 Shermans? So what's your REAL problem??

Y'know the reasons given by BTS for not including the T-35 mirror the reasons why the "land-battleships" never took off (pardon the pun) - they were too hard to control for the limited computing resources available to command them!! Life mirrors art yet again!!

OMG Dog - u get paid for this too?!! Jrrz, some ppl have all the luck!!

Err...Blitzkreig wasn't an early development of combined arms doctrine - armour, in fantry, artillery and air power had all been successfully combined in the last year of WW1. Obviously there were differnt limits, but that's notreally relevant. What Blitzkreig was was the application of mobility and firepower to a different type of warfare - the fast moving, penetration type we all know of now. Also I'd siggest that hte Pz IV was NOT designed as a heavy tank - it was a close support tank providing heavier artillery support than the current medium tank (PzIII with 37mm) could provide. Almost every nation had the same type of tank. When upgunning became necessary the Pz4 was used because it's turret ring was big enough to accomodate the increased forces. The smaller tanks (of all nations) couldn't manage this.

I don't recall seeing any discussion about the Stielgranate - the bulbous hollow charge spigot projectile used in 3.7 and 4.7cm AT guns from 1941. Will it be in CM2?

ROTFLMAO!! 4 turns??!! And mainly because KiwiJoe sets up like a newbie!! Oh man, what a let down after all the hype!! Looks like Kiwi's original question's been emphatically answered - he's played the lower end of the ladder for all his previous games!! Stalin's Organ (also a Kiwi )

I wasn't talking about concrete - any form of bunker is a "hard" target IMO - even the ones you described which were also de rigour when I was in the infanry!! :cool:

Thanks for the reply user, but I think you miss the point. A bunker IMO is not a "soft" target, and AP is appropriate to use agaisnt it. Currently in CMBO a tank gun that has run out of HE can sometimes use AP against infantry - and occasionally scores a kill, presumably some poor chap with a 3" hole through him from a direct hit. My question is whether the small HE filler in APHE hakes it more useful vs infantry than straight AP shot?

I know AP doesn't do a lot of damage, but the Russians used a lot of APHE - a small bursting charge in an AP round. I have never heard of any effect of APHE on "soft" targets, but I'd imagine it would have slightly more than straight AP shot. Anyone care to comment?

Is Nova Zemlaya etc part of the Novorossisk offensive in 1943? IIRC a very large Sov force tried to outflank the German line there, but I don't know what the result was.

The 6 pdr started with no HE ammo - I don't know why 'cos I would have thoughtthey'd have the doctrine sorted out by then, but they didn't apparently.

A minor correctoin - the RPG-43 "sabot" actually holds 2 fabric strips that trail out to keep the head facing forwards. The Russians had 3 AT grenades: RPG-40 - weighed 42 oz, don't know the size of the charge. VPGS 1940 rifle greade - 24 oz, 11.5 oz is the charge, 30mm penetratoin, range about 65 yards. RPG-43, weighted 42 oz.

What was the troops quality, and, umm...it doesn't look all that one-sided to me, so exactly what are you complaining about?

Ah - got it - thanks - silly me was looking under "downloads" and "scenarios"!! For anyone else who want it is under "News" on 19 March

Check out: http://history.vif2.ru/guns/project_1.html According to this table the 3 of the 85mm gun AP rounds had characteristics: 5 Warhead with a sharp tip; 6 Blunt warhead with a ballistic cap; 7 Warhead of improved armor penetration Obviously the one footnoted 6 has a ballistic cap. I suspect 5 = AP shot, 6 = APCBC and 7 = APC, but I can't swear to it. Can't answer the other questions sorry, except to note that I didn'tthink the Germans used any AP shot for the 88 - it was all APC or APCBC?

I read somethign about a doubble-zipped scenario pack here a week ago - can someone please post hte URL again? And yes, I tried searching, but never got a result - the engine seemed to freeze up

I suggest that WW2 began on 3 Sept 1939, when New Zealand declared war on Germany. The two countries being almost diametrically opposite each other on the globe, the war spanned the world right from the beginning!!

Well of course the difference between the ISU-152 and Hummel is that people will want o use the ISU, and an anti-tank rifle won't knock it out!! By all means use as many Hummels as you want - I'm sure both rounds they get to shoot each before being knocked out will be suitably deadly!!

Yes there was a smoke round for the 150mm rocket - 15cm Wurtgranate 41 w Kh Nebel. Don't know if there was one for the 21 & 30cm launchers or not, but the 28/32cm launcer did NOT have one. FWIW a previous poster noted that the original Nebelwerfer was a mortar - it was a very complicated 10cm affair intended to throw smoke as its main role. It turned into a very useful HE weapon with a range of over 6000m. However it was extremely expensive to make - more a light artillery piece at RM14,000 as opposed to RM 1500 for a more conventional 10cm mortar.