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The T-34 was still superior to the Sherman. All your looking at is Armor x Gun= quality of tank. You completly left out the T-34's superior suspension and wide tracks making it a superior cross country and all terrain fighting vehicle then the Sherman. The T-34 was also alot eaiser to repair and maintain. The T-34 was also better operating in the cold as well i beleive. The T-34 was a much superior tank to the Sherman since wars are not always fought on perfectly flat and dry ground and in warm weather.

Best all around tank was the Panther, i'd rank the T-34 number 2.

My choice would be the PanzerIVH.

What is CMMOS?

Will the Germans be getting anything equiped with their 128mm gun? I know the 128mm FlaK was not produced enought to be in the game, but did the Germans use the 128mm in anything besides the Mause?

Yes, Kalishnakoff pretty much copied the MP-44.

The Mp-40 was a solid smg. Any gun that fires that many rounds per minuit is going to jam once in awhile. In tight spot i would rather the MP-40 only because if it's compact size and light wieght, making it easier and faster to put it's barrel where you need to. You also do not need as much room to use the MP-40. In house to house fighting these are a few reasons why I would assume the MP-40 would be the better choice. Oh, and the MP-40 probably had less kick then the MP-44 allowing you to spray more bullets with more accuracy at close range.

Thank you for the welcome I'm sorry I did not read the forum more carefully - I'll remember to do so in the future. And of course you are right, horses are not that important. But since CM is so realistic with all the different vehicles and their specific abilities, I'd just think some horses would be nice Greetings, Feldgendarm</font>

Welcome to the forum. I posted about that awhile ago. Since most of the Artillary is off map it's realy not a big deal. To be honest, i'd rather a tractor pulling my Pak43 in the game rather then a chuck wagon.

Looks good! anyway you can get it without the creepy ladies on the bottom?

I don't know, but what i do know is your sytem would boot faster if you got rid off most of that crap in your start up menue. Keep your task schedualy, norton, and if you feel like it, your creative tab. What kind of creative card do you have by the way? I went with the Turtle Beach Santa Cruz myself, best card hands down in my opinion. Alot of people swear by eax though so it all comes down to your ears anyway.

Will Spotting lights or head lights be modeled in night battles? Street lamps ould be a nice touch in town, or burning fires that provide a little allumination and also add to line of sight.

BTS should put some of the memebers of this forum on the payroll.

So is this modeled in the game? I assume it is, but just making sure.

I was'nt sure if this was modeled in CMBO so i figured i'd ask. I've recently read tha the German 81mm mortar came with some shells that would bounce into the air upon impact and explode about 5 ft above ground level raining down shrapnel upon all those unfortunate enough to be in it's vicinity.

Just whats the Axis player will need against the Red Army......lots of trucks in disguise as light tanks. hehe

Whooo-boy. 1,000,000?? Where did you get that number? From my sources, it was several hundred thousand, not a freakin' million. Cornelius Ryan sites the figure at 300,000. Still a large number, but your facts, as seems to happen quite often to you, are a long way off. Even this was only because of the competition between Koniev and Zhukov and the "race for Berlin". Otherwise the Germans would have been annhialated slowly, with more care and with less Soviet casualties. Oh, and the Germans were no where as determined as the Soviets when it came to conquering the USSR. When defending your own land, the defenders will eventually win if the attacker cannot achieve victory quickly. Germany could not. It bogged down. History has proven this many times both before and after WWII.</font>

That front of the war was so brutal , it looked as though both sides were in for a fight to the death. Though Stalin was more dependent on the allies for opening a 2nd front. In my opinion there was already a 2nd front by '43 with the air war over Europe, then the 3rd front came with Operation Overlord.

Ill just chime in my agreement nice and quick. As Kutuzov once said, "Moscow is not Russia". Sure the government was there. Doesn't mean it could not be moved. Sure it was a communication center - but any other city could become an equally important comm center relatively quickly. When it comes to out-lasting the enemy, the Germans wouldn't have had a chance.</font>

Most historians would disagree for two man reasons: 1. The German Army was simply not ready to undertake Barbarossa any earlier. The forces used in the Balkans were not large, so they didn't affect the whole of the preparations enough to be of major concern. 2. The border areas were experiencing a very wet Spring. This would likely have made the initial German gains far worse, which then would have made the initial Soviet strategic defense plan far more effective than it turned out to be. The main reason the Germans lost in the East is because they didn't have a clue what they were up against. Weather, distances, terrain, industrial production, resolve of the enemy, and above all else... the enemy's true military capabilities... all horribly underestimated and not prepared for. It is actually amazing the Axis forces did as well as they did. Steve

I think i'll pick that book up, there are a ton of reason the germans failed to win in the east, but i assumed the most important reason was Il Duce's meddling in the Balkans. The Italian army had to be bailed out like usualy, but this tiime at the tremendous cost of delaying Operation Barbarossa. If the Operation was launched as originaly shcedualed, the Germans would not have needed winter clothing assuming they had the same success then as they did originaly. Also Alber Spier did'nt kick the German economy into a war-time economy till the middle or end of 43. The Germans were at war for years and did'nt bother to produce their potential numbers of arms and machines till late in the war. When the western allies were bombin the heck out of the german industry in 43, their production number actualy dramaticly rose from previous years.

Panzer General 1. It was easy at fist, but if you wanted to drag out the easern war......it basicly got impossible.

Hehe, i'm sure text like that exists, but i found that the books i've read from the german combatants perspective have been the leastbiased of all the other nations. Mabe it's just randomness of the books i happend to have read but it's just an observation.

Is anyon else here besides myself wondering how CMBB will play out in human vs human battles? I have found that there have been alot of games that in some way or another tend to favor the Soviets. It's a good thing that Soviet equipment is going to be realisticly modeled, but for some reason i'm worried that all the attention to the Soviets will in some way neglect the Axis. Perhaps because i keep hearing about the time table and what not, but i am confident that the Soviet force will be modeld perfectly, but will it be at the expense of Axis forces being neglected in someway and not recieving enough historic detail? Also, when playing another oppononent, chances are they will not be making the same mistakes as alot of the Soviet commanders seemed to have a hard time avoiding. I just hope my worries go unfounded about this.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but was'nt it the Cossaks from the Ukranian region who specialized in night fighting? They were well versed in it dating back to the Crimean war.