Glider

Those T-55s really look like they have been through a lot

That guy that managed to consistently achieve 70+% wins was plaing with default settings.

I mentioned to a young guy I know that it was a very hard scenario. He started playing CMBB and (he is that kind of guy ) and after about one month he sent me a game file with 70something:20something victory. I think he was playing the bloody scenario the whole time Now he is trying to crack Von Lauchert...

B&T Beginning of the End, CMBB operation, the scope of the operation changes between (3) battles totally. The first one is a pure recon battle, the second is mobile and the third is a slugging match.

Yes, that is what we say. It drops 48 x 5lb bomblets, but the version with 2 x 550lb bombs is not making bombing runs.

I bought about 10 Hs-129s, no AA, and only those with 48x5 lb bombs dropped them at all.

I think that the Stuka works, too.

I was also surprised when I noticed that in my tests Hs 129s dropped only small bombs... the big-bomb type was just straffing.

Well, it is true that you can be illiterate and still be a better person than many of the academicians. Whether the average illiterate citizen X would become a better, or at least a wiser person if thoroughly educated, that is an entirely different matter. If you consider most of the education (including history) to be a tale about other people's life experiences you are given an opportunity to learn from without having to actually live them through - then I do think that it is beneficial. Also, I wonder just how much "good" people who are well-trained in the art of credit card use and generally not very interested in other things are contributing to the society. Personally, I would expect a "good" society composed of such brain-dead individuals to fall apart rather soon. In other words, if I meet a person who doesn't know which continent he is in or whether he will fall off the edge of the world onto three elephants if he step outside his country's borders, well lets just say that all his door-holding and do-gooding will not save him from the (entirely subjective) label "idiot"

Campaigns produce strange setups... I remember in the CMTB campaign (PGDivision GrossDeutschland around Akhtyrka, near Kharkov in Ukraine, in August 43, conducting a counterattack against the Soviet 6th Guard Army and 27th Army), when my opponent tried to seize a bridge using 12 Panthers and a some mechanized infantry against the defending force of 63 6-pounder Valentines, 4 85mm guns and a LOT of infantry.

My mistake, as you said, he sank the Wilhelm Gustloff and the General Von Steuben but not the Goya.

Yeah, around 1964 Steel Panthers East-West battles (my main source of info ) suddenly became lopsided... on one side you had the then new M60A2 with those pathetic Shillelagh missiles and on the other you had the T-64, fast, armed with that deadly 125mm gun and well armoured.

In fact I think you can take T-64 as the first T-72 model. IIRC, T-64 was more advanced than first T-72 models but was never exported outside USSR.

On the other hand, after re-reading Jason's post, it seems to me that he is talking about 12.7mm HMG teams, not about tank HMGs. Sorry

I just ran a small test, IS-2 1943 and IS-2 1944 (early) do not have flexible 12.7mm HMGs and did not fire at German aircraft. However, IS-2 1944 and IS-3 did.

Strange, I recently played B&T Clash of Titans II against stikkypixie and I can clearly recall a veritable torrent of HMG AA fire coming from his halftracks and IS tanks. Perhaps he can confirm this.

I don't think TCs are credited as kills. At least I am sure that I often saw my sharpshooters killing TCs and still having 0 kills in the end.

Well, we had a less malignant form of communism here, that is certain. And, at least as far as WWII propaganda is concerned, it relied mostly on positive image campaigns, countless films, textbooks, anniversaries etc... there was no "believe this or else" attitude. But (and I am far from thinking that I am well-informed about the issue, these are just my impressions) it seems to me that the Russian perception of WWII stems more from the trauma of this (and earlier) invasion that almost killed their society. I don't think that any kind of state-sponsored propaganda is capable of producing such effects.

You are telling me?! I come from a country where every grudge is remembered and every sin is conveniently explained away or forgotten But... WWII was a long time ago and many truths about our magnificent freedom fighters and millions of German pillaging fascists they killed have become public knowledge and they are even generally accepted. Somehow, with many of the Russians I know it is different, their reactions to attempts to question the obviously gilded official version of WWII events is almost violent. It will take some time for them, I think... just remember, that fellow captain Marinesko that sank the Goya and the General Von Steuben within 10 days in 1945, killing over 10,000 people, was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1990... although by that time everyone knew that most of the drowned were civilians. [edited for clarity] [ April 20, 2005, 03:09 PM: Message edited by: Glider ]

Actually, it seems that the 125mm round has inferior ballistics & penetration, not surprising since the gun was first used in the T-64 tank. The new German 120mm/L55 gun (as opposed to the standard Western 120mm/L44) looks like a real killer.

There is, indeed, enough incompetence and stupidity redeemed by courage and sacrifice to tax the talent of Solzhenitsyn. Somehow, and don't take me wrong, I don't think that our friends Russians still have it in them to produce such a book. Even today, even privately-owned Russian websites are often reluctant to admit mistakes and crimes that were committed by their side.

I think that Czechs are producing quite good upgraded T-72s of their own.

From my experience, it seems that having 10+ enemy tanks within 100 metres also helps

Just a few days ago an untouched veteran Panzergrenadier 9-men squad surrendered to my troops. They were hiding by the road as my tank column was passing. They stood up, fired a panzerfaust, brewed up one of the Shermans and then promptly surrendered, IIRC before even a shot was fired.

I still recall the furore among wargamers when patches for the Steel Panthers 2 game which included latest data on T-72 and T-80 armour were released. Suddenly it turned out that the standard 105mm tank gun was incapable of punching through the frontal armour of either T-80 or improved versions of T-72. I can tell you that after that little change many of the previously made and very popular NATO/Warsaw Pact scenarios lost much of their appeal