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I just noticed a recon photo made from a screen shot on the newest DFDR camo topic. http://www.battlefront.com/cgi-bin/bbs/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=018928 I thought that would be really cool to have those in the briefings for future CMs. At least for the attackers. Give newbies a little help at identifiying likely enemy locations. I know i've seen a website where they managed to age screenshots to look like they really are from WWII. That would enhance the game alot I think.

Maybe even have it cause panic or make infantry take cover within a certain distance. This should only work on conscript/green troops early in the war though. But that would be nearly the whole soviet army

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by MikeT: What is interesting is that naval infantry still have their own unique uniform. They retained a blue and white striped shirt they wore under the jacket. MikeT<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Wasn't their whole uniform black?

For future CMs I would love to see some sort of seperate 3d unit database. I would want one where you can rotate in 3d like the game. It would be much easier to test mods this way, rather than going into a game. Maybe have it list stats on the side as well. Also, does BTS have the gun/armor penetration charts available anywhere?

Didn't they also make a heavier barrel for the heavy ones so it stayed cooler?

The Brummbar is way better armored than the Tiger I. Has anyone bothered to look at a picture and see how well sloped the front superstructure is?

Try looking at this page. [url=http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/8172/panzerfaust1.htm#spaced] Lots of stuff about skirts. Be sure to look at the Russian ones. Those are rather different than the German kind.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> I recall reading in Hans Von Lucke's book, they had some modified as assault guns. I no longer have a copy sorry. But, it seems to me they were about all the armor his battalion had for support for quite a bit of time. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Actually those were Marder I's of Alfred Beckers assault gun battalion. Those were built on Lorraine Schlepper chassis. They actually caused a good deal of damage in hedgerow ambushes.

I know this has probably been discussed but does BTS plan on making German guns more accurate at long range for CM2? Ive seen in several books that veteran panther crews claimed a 90%hit rate out to 1000m. I also know Nashorns had kills at 4.5 km.

I was in the middle of typing a response for a thread about tank commander .50 cals a couple days ago, but when i posted it, it was in a different thread and the original was nowhere to be seen.

I've seen in at least one book that the Americans did develop skirts for Shermans, but decided they looked too similar to the German kind. Apparently they were afraid of friendly fire incidents.

Actually Pzgr 40 doesn't discard the sabot. It stays on during flight so its not quite as effective as the Allied discarding kind, because of the increased wind resistence slowing the velocity.

I was reading a thread about the effectiveness of tank commander .50s and started writing a reply, only to post on the wrong thread somehow. It seems to have dissappeared and the search won't find it. Anyone know which one it was?

Well said Gyrene.

CM doesnt show the difference very much. Apparently they shoot prisoners sometimes but I can't recall seeing it. In real life, they were better equipped and more likely to receive new equipment first. CM should have them as fanatical fighters more often, like automatically without the scenario setting it. That would show the cases where Volksturm ran, and the SS would stay to fight, occasionally shooting the kiddies when they ran by. And weren't the majority of Gebirgsjager in the SS anyways?

Whoops, that got into the wrong thread. Please ignore it.

I have lots of problems with those jeep mounted .50s. In a night scenario, one charged into a group of 8 HTs,one 251/9, one Wirbelwind, a PSW 234/1, 2 stug Gs, 2 stuh42s, and 2 platoons of infantry that had all just crossed a bridge. It killed two HTs, the 234 and the the 75mm halftrack and then got away clean. I never did kill that bastard.

I believe there was a discussion about this before. The main reason I believe is diesel doesn't explode very easily. You can actually put out cigarettes with it. Diesel engines are much less complex than gas engines as well. The low-end torque is indeed the most desirable for tanks as high RPMs burn a lot of fuel.

Attrition really only works if you have unbalanced sides. It doesnt work too well if you have balanced sides like CM tends to have. It only works in offense if you get lots of reinforcements, or greatly outnumber the defender. I think its mostly a defensive strategy, to eat away numerically superior attackers. IMHO, the best is a little of both, because manuver gets you in position to maximize the attrition ratio in your favor.

Russia is a minor power? The Germans crushed Russia so badly nobody really knows how many losses they inflicted. They would have won if Hitler had listened to any of his generals. He didn't go for Moscow and just piddled around with encirclement of troops that would have surrendered when Moscow fell. He then let the Panzers sit for a month till the Autumn rains. And even with the break for the Russians, they still made it to the suburbs of Moscow. By 1944, when they were outnumbered by at least 5:1, they still managed to hold off the hordes on both fronts and inflict massive casualties, though they took quite a few themselves. I would hardly call that a "butt kicking". Thats like saying the Tet offensive was a military success for the VC. They were utterly destroyed, even though they ended up winning the political battle, which is the most important of all.

The German name for the skirts was Schuerzen. The Panther and all later vehicles had them over the tracks. The Russians also used skirts a bit. If you dig around, you can find pics of IS-2s and T-34s with sheet metal skirts on the sides of their turrets mostly. It apparently helped stop Panzerfaust and schreck rounds. They werent nearly as common as the German kinds though. The skirts were mainly designed to stop HC, because the mesh kind sure as hell wont stop AT rifles. In CM, try to kill a Pz IV H from the sides with a bazooka. Its pretty hard to do.

It isn't really mounted on a tractor. Those tracks just give it more stability in the mud. But it can be aimed a little bit by rotating the tracks. It also took 2-3 minutes to reload if i remember right, and it took 3 men on the ramrod. The russians liked to bust bunkers and pillboxes with them.

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR> I can't wait to pit both the IS-2 and the Tiger/King Tiger against one another. Should prove to be quite a different experience than using US or UK armor. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> You can get total massacres either way. The first time they met in Poland a full battalion of KTs was nearly destroyed by a few IS2s and T-34/76s in an ambush. But then a KT happened upon 11 or so IS2s on a road and killed them all. Behind that was another 120 tanks refueling and rearming. He ended up with 39 kills for 39 shots. But thats kinda rare. I believe the commander was Karl Korner, who had over a 100 kills in April '45.

Assuming APHE means shaped charge, skirts would make a IV more survivable. The round would detonate too far away making the blast unfocused and dispersed. But the only time ive seen Russian 122 HEAT rounds was on SU-122s, which they were dissappointed by at Kursk. I would guess thats due to the use of spaced armor and skirts on the IIIs and IV. Also they were short barreled so it was hard to hit tanks at all.