Trommelfeuer

I don't really understand the problem, I switched to view 1 in the setup phase, looked across the map, and discovered the wadi after 5 seconds .... o.K. could have been six or seven seconds as well.... Regards, Sven

:eek: Last time I tried this site it was ultra-slow...now it's damn fast, very nice! Thanks a lot for the tip Keke! Regards, Sven

Wow, this is my first double post... ...Krasse Scheisse... Regards, Sven [ January 30, 2004, 04:45 PM: Message edited by: Trommelfeuer ]

Yup, Andreas is right, CMBB is called Comabat mission 2 here in europe, and CMAK is called Combat mission 3 here... Regards, Sven

Thank you very much for this interesting information @ Hans! Regards, Sven

My grandfather encountered "Seydlitz-troops" in the end of March 1945 while being with the 10. SS Panzerdivision Frundsberg. They had raised giant-loudspeakers on the other side of the Oder, and played the song "Heimat deine Sterne..." ( Homeland your stars.. ) afterwards, there was the scournful call "Die seht ihr nie wieder!" ( You won't see them anymore...), and then followed a heavy artillery strike.... The second encounter was a firefight in the middle of the night with Seydlitz-troops (near the town "Hosena" ), those Seydlitz-troops who were killed that night wore german uniforms and Seydlitz-Cuff Titles....( on April 23 1945 ). Regards, Sven [ January 23, 2004, 07:22 AM: Message edited by: Trommelfeuer ]

Yea, and on these russian sites, you'll find tons of info and good photos... ( source: Underground Sevastopol ) articles about coastal battery No. 30: Soviet Dunkirk ( ru. ) Last ferroconcrete battleship ( ru. ) Last volleys of the 30th battery ( ru. ) free internet translation service: Babelfish Regards, Sven

I couldn't agree more! This is really a "Must-Have-Mod" !!! Such a beauty... Thanks a lot MikeyD !!! Regards, Sven

Yea, thank you very much for all your efforts in re-uploading all theses Mods Astro Cat !!! ...I especially like Andrew Fox's infantry Mods! All of them! Regards, Sven

True ? Myth ? BS ? Regards, Sven

Thanks a lot to both of you! I've tried Babelfish, but results were somehow quite confusing... I'll try Prompt ! Regards, Sven

Is there anyone who can read russian texts in this forum ? If so, could you please take a look at the following sources and find out some details of the sowjet forces in fortress Sewastopol in June / July 1942 ? Sevastopol armored train ( ru ) Crimean Notebooks ( ru ) Under us - The Black Sea ( ru ) http://militera.lib.ru/ ( ru ) <---Damn cool site!!!! Babelfish Regards, Sven

Hi! I've just stumbled across these: Lage 14.-26. September 1942 http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Karte/Stalingrad1.htm Lage 27. September - 3. Oktober 1942 http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Karte/Stalingrad2.htm Lage am 12. Dezember 1942 http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Karte/Stalingrad3.htm Lage 10. Januar - 2. Februar 1943 http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Karte/Stalingrad4.htm Regards, Sven

I think this kicks ass! Yea! Great to hear these news! Thanks a lot for the info! Regards, Sven

Hmm...and what about this list ? Could you please help in completing ( or at least add some details to) it ? ( If you notice any mistakes, please tell me! ) Erich v. Manstein writes in "Verlorene Siege": Soviet Coastal Army - General-Mayor Ivan Efimovich Petrov * 2. Rifle Division * 25. Rifle Division * 95. Rifle Division * 172. Rifle Division - Polkovnik Ivan Laskin * 354. Rifle Division * 386. Rifle Division * 388. Rifle Division * 40. Cavalry Divison (without horses) * 7. Marine-Brigade * 8. Marine-Brigade * 79. Marine-Brigade ( These forces are most likely under strength. ) 3. OAG ( Osobaya Aviatsionnaya Gruppa ) Soviet special aviation group * 6 GIAP/VVS-ChF - Kapitan Mikhail Avdeyev 1 AE/ 6 GIAP/VVS-ShF * 32 GIAP/VVS-ChF - Mayor Gubriy * 18 ShAP/VVS-ChF * 23 AP/VVS-ChF * 45 IAP/ 5 VA ( On June 10 twenty Yak-1s of 45 IAP/5 VA arrived in Sevastopol from the northwestern Caucasus. Next day a group of eight ChF YAK-1s followed to reinforce 3 OAG. ) [ source: Black Cross Red Star V. 2, chapter 20 ] Black Sea Fleet ( O.K. not in Fortress Sevastopol but very important for it. ) * battleship "Parizhskaya Kommuna" * heavy cruiser "Tashkent" (flotilla leader ) * heavy cruiser "Molotov" * destroyer "Bezuprechnyy" ( The combat report for II./StG 77 for June 26 reads: "Eight Ju 87s attacked the destroyer...Two direct hits were scored. the destroyer sank after two minutes"...) * destroyer "Sovershennyy" ( Sunk by german bombers on June 8 in the port of Sevastopol.) * destroyer "Syobodnyy" ( Sunk by He 111s of I./KG 100 "Wiking" on June 10.) * destroyer "Bditel'nyy" * destroyer "Soobrazitel'nyy" * destroyer "Nezamozhnik" * patrol boat "SKA-092" ( Sunk on June 13 by german bombers enroute to Sevastopol) * minesweeper "TShch-27" ( Sunk on June 13 by german bombers enroute to Sevastopol) * minelayer "Komintern" * motorboat SP-40 ( Sunk on June 13 by german bombers enroute to Sevastopol) * survey vessel "Gyuys" ( Sunk by german bombers on June 8 in the port of Sevastopol.) * transport ship "Abkhaziya" ( Sunk by He 111s of I./KG 100 "Wiking" on June 10.) * transport ship "Gruziya" ( Sunk on June 13 by german bombers enroute to Sevastopol) * transport ship "Ukraina" * transport ship "Proletariy" * transport ship "Elbrus" * tanker "Mikhail Gromov" ( Sunk on June 2 by He 111 torpedo bombers of II./KG 26. ) [ source: Black Cross Red Star V. 2, chapter 20 ] ( source: M.A.S. and Midget Submarines in the Black Sea 1942-1943. ) additional sources: Soviet Union Factbook Armoured Train "Zheleznyakov" Coastal batteries, Forts, Infantry- and Anti Aircraft installations Regards, Sven

Maybe you are thinking about this Stalingrad-Pack (SP)? SP-battles SP-operations Stalingrad Pack - Chronology Into the Void - July '42 When Worlds Collide - July 25 '42 6th Army Probe - August '42 Hell on Earth (op) - Sept 12 '42 The Library - Sept 18 '42 Our Backs to the Volga - Oct '42 My City of Ruins - Nov '42 One Final Stab - Nov 9 '42 A Morning Commute - Nov '42 Antonescu Kaputt - Nov 19 '42 Tovarishch Mysh - Nov 20 '42 What might have been - Nov 20 '42 Glimmer of Valor - Nov 20 '42 Kalach Na Donu - Nov 22 '42 Waltzing Matilda - Nov '42 Assault in the Snow - Dec 4 '42 Eye of the Storm - Dec 13 '42 Balck and the Bridgehead - Dec 15 '42 Hollow Legion - Dec 16 '42 Der Mannstein Kommit (op) - Dec 19/20 '42 Failure on the Askai (op) - Dec 20/21 '42 Tatsinskaya Raid - Dec 27 '42 The Bitter End (op) - Jan 12 '43 Regards, Sven

Here's the same story as posted by tar, with a KV-II instead of a KV-I... Found here. Greetings, Sven P.S. Has anyone heard the story of a KV-II being destroyed by a shot from a Panzer III through the KV-II's gun barrel ? [ January 16, 2004, 03:52 PM: Message edited by: Trommelfeuer ]

SPOILERS below! . . . . . . . . . . . . . I enjoyed this scenario very much! I thought my Italians could win the battle until the Mathildas came... ..the only penetrating hits were at 8m through the side armour and at 5m through the rear armour of the leading Mathilda (At the end of the battle, I checked it's kill score, it destroyed 5x 75mm portees, 5x M13/40s and caused 22 infantry casualities...), but the beast just rolled on and smashed another two M 13/40s... I got a tactical victory in the end, 64 : 36 ... Axis 386 soldiers O.K. 55 casualities 16 KIAs 26 vehicles destroyed Allies 127 soldiers O.K. 189 casualities 56 KIAs 61 POWs 29 vehicles destroyed Did anyone destroy a Mathilda with M 13/40s in this sceanrio ? Greetings, Sven [ January 16, 2004, 09:17 PM: Message edited by: Trommelfeuer ]

SPOILERS below! . . . . . . . . . . . . . I enjoyed this scenario very much! I thought my Italians could win the battle until the Mathildas came... ..the only penetrating hits were at 8m through the side armour and at 5m through the rear armour of the leading Mathilda (At the end of the battle, I checked it's kill score, it destroyed 5x 75mm portees, 5x M13/40s and caused 22 infantry casualities...), but the beast just rolled on and smashed another two M 13/40s... I got a tactical victory in the end, 64 : 36 ... Axis 386 soldiers O.K. 55 casualities 16 KIAs 26 vehicles destroyed Allies 127 soldiers O.K. 189 casualities 56 KIAs 61 POWs 29 vehicles destroyed Did anyone destroy a Mathilda with M 13/40s in this sceanrio ? Greetings, Sven [ January 16, 2004, 09:17 PM: Message edited by: Trommelfeuer ]

Most of Manstein's complex sentences are quite "interlocked", somehow it is writing-style of the past... I have to re-read most sentences to understand them...but I don't have this problem with other books by "modern-writing-style" authors... OMG, this all sounds so dumb, anyway Keke, I hope you understand what I mean. Greetings, Sven [ January 15, 2004, 04:38 PM: Message edited by: Trommelfeuer ]

I've just sent the text to you! ( Typos are by me, not by Manstein... Greetings, Sven

I've copied the part about "Störfang" out of Manstein's "Verlorene Siege" (pages 261-284) to Microsoft word document, shall I sent it to you Andreas ? My impresions of Manstein's writing: * difficult to read, 'cause Manstein writes in an "old school" german-style and he forms very long sentences... * He describes events of "minor" importance for the operation in every detail ( for example the death and the funeral of his driver Fritz Nagel...but it's really interesting, and I understand that F. Nagel was a friend and very important to Manstein after all these years...), but many details of the battle itself are missing... BTW, Sturmvogel has posted some more information on axis history forum: . Greetings, Sven [ January 15, 2004, 11:02 AM: Message edited by: Trommelfeuer ]

Andreas, Thanks a lot for your answer! You are correct, this site really offers awful false information, sorry that I didn't check the site first! ( I didn't find this article by browsing through the website, I found the article by chance with google.) I also disliked how the author is trying to prove his point all the time in "Eine Analyse des Krimfeldzuges der Wehrmacht im Jahre 1942", but I liked the interesting informations about Leutnant Birnbacher's small flottilla of six motor torpedo boats (MTB) some patrol boats and the italian flottilla (in Yalta) of four MTBs, six mini submarines, and four armed motor boats of Capitano di Fregata Bimbelli in cooperation with Oberst Wild's "Schiffsbekämpfungskommando" in the black around Sevastopol in '42... Mit freundlichem Gruss, Sven [ January 14, 2004, 05:21 PM: Message edited by: Trommelfeuer ]

Added: Artillerie-units of LIV. AK: ( thanks again to Sturmvogel !!! ) Art.Rgt. zbV Stab 787, 781, 49 4./II./Art.Rgt. 54; 5., 6./II./Art.Rgt. 818 (10cm K) 5., 6./II./Art.Rgt. 54; 7., 8./III./Art.Rgt. 111; 1., 2./I./Art.Rgt. 77 (Personel 3. Bttr. zur Auffrischung s.Abt. 624); Art.Abt. 737 (sFH mot.) 1., 2./I./; 3., 4./II./s.Art.Rgt. 814 (24cm Haubitzen (t)) 2 Btr. s.Art.Abt. 833; 4./II./ALR 2; s.Art.Abt. 857; 2 Bttr. s.Art.Abt. 624 (21cm Mrs) s.Art.Abt. 641, 815, 2 Bttr. s.Art.Abt. 624 (30.5cm Mrs) 1., 2./s.Art.Abt. 727 (15cm K) (less one gun assigned to XXX Korps) s.Art.Bttr. 917 (19.4cm K (f)) Stab s.Art.Abt. 833 ( Karl Gerät ) ( Thor & Odin ) s.Art.Bttr. 459 (42cm H (t)) s.Art.Bttr. 458 (42cm Gamma Mrs) s.Art.Abt. 672 ( 80cm K(E) "Dora" ) Art.Bttr. (E) 688 About half a dozen Abt. of coast defense artillery s.Werfer-Rgt. 1 with 3 Abt. of 28/32cm Nebelwerfers Kommandeur der Nebeltruppe 1 with NbW.Abt. 4 (10.5cm NbW 40), II./Werfer-Lehr-Rgt. 1, and III./NbW.Rgt. 54 (both 15cm NbW 41) Greetings, Sven [ January 14, 2004, 06:33 AM: Message edited by: Trommelfeuer ]

Added: Artillerie-units of XXX. AK 4./Art.Abt. 818 (10cm K) 2./II./Artillerie-Lehr-Regiment 2; 154. Art.Abt. (sFH mot.) 5./II./ALR 2; Art.Btr. 624 (21cm Mrs.) Art.Btr. 624 (30.5cm Mrs.) 6./II./ALR 2; 2./Art.Abt. 767 (1 gun) (15cm K) 3./H.Küsten-Art.Abt. 147; Beute-Bttr. (10.5cm K) 772. H.Küsten-Art.Abt. (15cm or 17cm K) I./NbW-Rgt. 70 (15cm) II./NbW-Rgt. 70 (28/32cm) Thanks a lot Sturmvogel for this info! Greetings, Sven