Stilletto Rebel

If it wasn't for you pesky kids.....!

Pretty! I also liked the Jagdpanther and Lighstorm photos on your website too!

Sounds big and will require a lot of administration from the (Impartial) God Team, but does sound like a good idea. I've had a think about this and can see it being highly political too as all the commanders/Generals will be clamoring for reinforcements from their finite pool of manpower and materials available. Favouritism and victory points (from winning engagements) will help secure Commanders their reinforcements over other Commanders. Other factors would play a part too, such as the theater of operations (you're hardly going to prioritse reinforcements to a sideshow are you?!) The world map would have to be carefully thought out, with them seperated into theaters of operations with objectives in each. Trial this idea with just a theatre first and see how it goes. This will bring to light any problems in God Team's impartiality, collating results of actions, timing attacks using several players/Commanders on a theatre front, etc. This game would probably need a forum all of it's own too!

It's better than being a frog in a blender!

Don't quote me on this, but from memory the Gewher 43 was a semi-automatic rifle developed to counter the American Garand. However, production quality and problems in the field (easy to foul, gas emission/blowback problems - mainly derived from the continued use of the full-power 7.92-mm round) did not make it very popular with the troops. The Sturmgewher 43/44 was an assault rifle and a different thing entirely. This weapon used the 7.92-mm kurt (short) round which was not as powerful and didn't put the weapon under so much pressure.

After the First World War, practically all armies armed their front-line officers with long arms to help disguise the fact that they were indeed officers. This is because the enemy would naturally pick off the officer first. On the Eastern Front it was quite acceptable for German officers to swap their officer's tunics and boots for standard infantry ones and reverse their shoulder tabs (so they were upside down). This is because Russian snipers were such a real threat.

Actually, I've fired one of these puppies and know a fair bit about them. Designed exclusively for the Luftwaffe's Fallschirmjager arm, the Fallschirmjagergewher-42 fired a full-power 7.92-mm round (which gives it a fair kick!). Two versions were made. The first numbered approx 1500 to 2000 before combat experience showed where modifications were needed. A total of around 7000 were made by the end of the war, although production pretty much came to an end in mid '44 to produce other more needed weapons. This weapon had a bayonet(!) and was bipod mounted. The 20-round magazine was attached on the left (which made it a bit unstable to fire from the shoulder), but was overall a very impressive weapon. It was greatly valued by the Fallschirmjager and much more preferred than the MP38 or 40.