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I know it's too late now to bring this up, as the last patch has just been finished , but I've found reading some books that the Italian 81mm mortar used basically 2 types of shelles. The normal one is the one used by a standard 81mm mortar in that period. Then there is the "Grande Capacità" shell (Great capacity). In the book I'm reading right now "I cavalieri del Fango" (The Knights of Mud) written by Vittorio Luoni it is written: "... There are a few "Grande capacità" bombs, but for that objective (2 greek mortars) they are worth to be used. "Normal charge, 2 additional charges, delayed fuse" the officer say and when he receives the bomb (that looks like a torpedo for its big lenght) he looks if everything is in order. Then he introduces it in the tube and swiftly goes out of his position, rather small, since the blast is very powerful. The projectile lands a few meters from the enemy: it's a great blast since the "Grande capacità" bomb of the 81mm mortar has about the same power of a 149mm cannon granade (!). "No correction to be made, bring here other pills!" scream the leutenent while he's adjusting the tube again, since now the mortar is unbalanced after the big muzzle blast moved the base. Other bombs are fired, and after some minutes, the 2 Greek 81mm mortars and their crews are destroyed, while all our soldiers scream in joy..." Amedeo do you know something? Does anybody knows something more specific about this special shell?

MickeyD, heh that's maybe because his real name was "Cristoforo Colombo" ?

Oh please... Always the same thing repeating all over again. Graziani's Army wasn't composed of cowards, like ANY army in the world. Our Army lost the first big battle with the British simply because it was a "Feet" Army, our soldiers called themselves "feet motorized", and in a modern desert war, even a single platoon of tanks can just bypass a large group of infantrymen (equipped with everything you can imagine, light and heavy artillery, supplies, the best troops in the world...) and simply leave them to surrender, since they simply can't do anything else. Exactly the same thing happened to the British just when the Germans arrived in North Africa, and they were throwed back to Egypt before the Crusader offensive. In a desert war, when there isn't mobility, you can't do too much. It's a no-win situation for the static defenders. We had some decent tanks too, like the M13/40, but the crewmen arrived with relatively NO training; only during 1941 and after this was improved. These tanks were used just as they "were",they attacked with impetus, but without coordination, and were meant to be destroyed just before they started their engines. Please, so many young guys suffered and died , and they did it believing in their cause, and most of them died embracing their guns, for their country. The CCNN were used after 1940 even as an added "Regiment" in the standard Infantry Division, to raise a bit its fighting capabilities, since it just has 2 Infantry and 1 Artillery Regiment, after the General Pariani's "re-building" of the Army to be used in an ipothetical future "mobile" war: less men, more artillery. Of course, this was totally wrong, as the war showed... --- The German soldier amazed the world. The Italian soldier amazed the German soldier. Erwin Rommel

Hi, I'm "Audace", and I'm using a new nickname since I've had to format my whole hard drive, and strangely the forum couldn't recognize my email. Ciao a tutti gli Italiani Amedeo, it's been a long time we've lost contact. I'm sorry but I've had quiet an hectic period lately. I haven't seen Francesco in a while now, he's another old member. Great news Matt! Actually an AWESOOOOOME news! I'll see if I can contact the other 2 friends of mine who did the voice for the Italians in the Desert mod for CMBO some time ago... We could create something, or modify some of them.