[Troops armed with panzerfaust's]

Sattelite divisions were usually supplied with old equipment, if the Germans supplied them at all. If they were better supplied, Operation Uranus (the encirclement of the 6th army at Stalingrad) would not have happened. After the withdrawal from the Caucasus, the sattelite units (Hungarians, Romanians, and Italians) were mostly left to fend for themselves; no longer recieving support from the Germans.

As far as Russians using captured Panzerfausts late war, they would have been used if they were found on the battlefield; but by that time the Germans were using scorched earth policy to leave nothing for the Russians to put to use in large numbers. The Russian superiority in the air by mid 1944, and the fact they outnumbered German tanks with their own by about an 11:1 margin more than made up for the lack of a tube-launched hand held AT weapon.

I hope that might help as far as my research abilities go. I could reccomend a few books if you like...

[Fog-of-War: What setting do you use?]

Full. Even when playtesting.

[Surrender]

Best way I found to get prisoners is to give a routed enemy nowhere to go. I made a battle on CMBO where American force attacks fortified German position on top of a hill. Several times I snuck around back of gun bunkers, after taking many grenades and explosives, my guys would say 'come out with your hands in the air' and the whole German gun crew would surrender. Knocked out four bunkers this way. The rest would try to run through my men to get away, with predictable results.

Anyway, I've never had a problem taking prisoners when I wanted to.

[Some questions about Shock Force?]

I was reading the big consolidated post about Shock Force, and I had a couple questions.

1) When the game comes out will it ship with the map and battle editor like the other CM games?

2) I saw the blue on blue thing where you could have US vs US, could you have Syrians with US vs other US?

3) Is there any definite answer on whether other countries will be modeled into the game? Maybe as an Addon at a later date?

4) one more, will air units be "smarter" in this game and not constantly attack their own guys. "Think of CMBO and CMBB and shudder."

5) Also will air power be more controllable than simply having it present and it doing it's own thing?

Thats all for now.