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Leopard_2

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  1. I found the ATi 9550 VIVO to be better in 2D desktop display than my GeForce 5200 FX, just as well supported under Linux, with a higher frame rate in the odd game I'm playing, and sporting video-in for an unbeatable price. I thing the existing issues didn't weight up the advantages. Meaning to say, I'm not "out of my right mind" just because I no longer have fog in my CM games.
  2. Similar could be said for the British 2-pounder or, to a lesser extend, the US Sherman tank (or the Bf-109). They remained in production despite being much inferior to available alternatives, because you could produce so many of them.
  3. I would be interested in hearing JasonC's take on how the Soviet situation in 1941 - "stand and fight" orders, reserves withheld by the rear instead of tapped into by the front, officers cashiered for perceived cowardness, etc. etc. - compares to the German situation from 1943 onward. My perception is that Hitler and his staff overextended their not-fully-mobilized war economy in 1942, and when the tide swung against them, lost their daring, flexible strategy / tactics, and started the very same follies (giving stupid, unrealistic orders like "stand and fight", and chashiering smart officers because they were unable to make them into successes) that enabled their early successes - with the same disastrous results.
  4. I've seen tank-riding infantry on pictures from North Africa just as well, both British and German. Of course a forward turret makes it more comfortable for infantry to hitch a ride, but since Soviet doctrine forbade infantry to do so, I'd assume it hadn't been a "design choice". No infantry, when given a choice, choses walking over riding.
  5. Very interesting read. Bottom line is, the Germans lost the war because, while being prepared to start it, they weren't prepared to endure it beyond 1941/42. Fits in together with other things I read about (like, not focussing on mass-producability of the tanks they designed, halting development past Pz IV and Bf109, stuff like that).
  6. You mean Manhattan Project or Virus House? As for Soviets capturing equipment... it's standard drill to render your equipment useless before you are captured.
  7. The distance between factory and frontline gets longer. True. The road situation between supply depot and front units improves. Also true. This could have been an interesting thread if it hadn't become personal...
  8. And I repeat, taking operational freedom away from German units and issuing "hold the line" orders did help in Soviet successes, too.
  9. Erm... wasn't Paulus ordered to hold out, so to bind enemy forces that otherwise would have been free to hunt Heeresgruppe Süd? (Just from memory right here, but this thread is the first time I read about Paulus deciding to stay put!)
  10. Because you're taking a very one-sided point of view, which is hard to agree on? You're basically claiming that the Soviets had learned so much so fast that they were vastly superior to the Germans even if they hadn't had superior numbers. That's just as biased as claiming that only superior numbers defeated Germany. Objectively is the keyword. ...
  11. I second that. Look at the US, they basically won because of logistics. Not superior tactical / strategical skill of generals, not superior training of the troops, not even superior material. But lots of everything, whereever needed.
  12. Wrong. As long as the Russians lacked combat experience at the tactical and operationional level to meet the Germans on their own terms, the Germans possessed a powerful advantages in combined arms fighting and tactical flexibility. However, round 'about late 1942-43 the Red Army was approaching a rough parity with the German army on the operational level. One year later the Soviets were dictacting the terms of combat on the operational and strategic level, and by mid 1944 the Soviets were superior on a tactical level. And there wasn't much the Germans could do about it. It wasn't like they weren't trying. It was improving Soviet combat capacity that denied the Wehrmacht the ability of fighting true mobile operations in the latter half of the war. Not Hitler. </font>
  13. Hoping your opponent gets hit by friendly fire.
  14. You are correct - partially. The Wehrmacht did distinguish infantry (white) and armored infantry (green). Today, all infantry is green, and white is - get this - the music corps. :-D But my little tale was about the paras of today, which wear green stripes.
  15. One day. From http://www.raf.mod.uk/dday/timeline_june.html :
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