The_Enigma

I dont quite fully understand the concept of because someone is a volunteer he will preform better then others, ok i can see it over people who have been conscript and prehaps dont agree with the war or just dont want to fight etc but what about in comparison to the regulars, the guys who have been in alot longers - lifers or even those who have already seen combat? Does "calibre" really get involved when you got some dude across the field shooting 10 pounds of poop out of you with a machine gun (ala the Somme, heres better of the 50+ thousand casulties that day a good deal where volunteers)?

Was it Gavin who asked that they send all these one or two men to him and he could win the war a hell of allot quicker?

No. I'm suggesting they kill more people in the movies than they do in real life. I'm sure the training emphasized lethality in the Second World War. The training manuals were very bloody minded. The Canadian Army Training Memorandum constantly harped on the need for men to kill; Montgomery talked of it often as well. In the field, it was harder to make it an imperative. Men would rather use grenades or artillery than get in close with a Sten or knife and make sure. </font>

Is there a summary available?

Isnt a stright piece of trench as represnted in game a portray of something which is already zig zagged, have sort of dug outs, firing pits etc and not just a stright line? As stated in this and other threads, grenades arnt uber weapons for killing infantry so why should a single one clear half a trench?

Thought so, cheers.

Isnt TOE strength like paper strength and not actual strength?

lol what is it with you two guys?

Jason, lies lies and more lies ... we all know that when a grenade goes off half the city block is going with you! Or are you trying to tell me Hollywood has lied?! Ha, i doubt it! [ June 23, 2007, 09:04 AM: Message edited by: the_enigma ]

But i didnt expect building permission to be given so soon! You know they need to write reports, hold enquiries, draw up plans, then public enquiries all to say yes to discussing the idea of actually drawing up any sort of a building plan ...

Prehaps we have ran the course of what we can talking about in regards to Salamis? Where is the topic starter anyway?

At any rate that stubby little gun kicks the crap out of every tank you come across (yes including KV Tanks ... just need to blast them with enough HE to force the crew to bail). Thats one i still havnt got my head around, for there intended use why didnt they give them all some form of howizter?

makes sence, thanks guys!

Seriously too lazy to set up a small test operation and quickly play through it ... takes all of 5 minutes! So a quick not even 5 minutes of testing will reveal that if fortifications, pillboxes etc are added as scheduled reinforcements they will appear in whatever battle you scheduled them to arrive in and they can be deployed as you said wherever you like. Appear, the other reinforcements types, such as link to map also work. No ideas on Battalion etc reverse as I didn’t test them.

Am reading Panzer Operations currently and the author is describing some counterattack several panzer and panzergrenadeir divisions have just launched. He notes that the Soviet minefields where spotted by the luftwaffe so the 2 Corps of 5 divisions were able to skirt around them. How exactly can a minefield be spotted by planes?

Or did the Salami pour the petrol over the fridge?

And as EG said, the Soviet numbers. In my game, after losing quite a number of T34s i was able to push forth with practically every single one of them with move to contact orders so they all halted and started firing. There was a very nice momment when a massive bunch of them fired at the same time

Tigers, not King Tigers You may want to check out a scenario on the scenario depot called Strachwitz at Kursk. The guys who made that iirc said it was very thoughly researched. That features Panthers, Tigers, MK IVs, MK IIIs all fighting together pushing forth on a map made up of Soviet AT batteries. I dunno it made provide some ideas ?

You should have seen the tank graveyard before i punched through the German tanks ...

Glacis, thats the slopey bit on the hull ja? Can't remember to be honest. What i can remember is an unhealthy number of my panthers with flaming turrets because yet another round slapped throuh it like a hot knife in butter

He might have been winter and he had a frozen nose ... then it would make sence, some 3rd degree burns to melt the ice off!

I think My Panthers would disagree with that ... too many times have they went up in flames from a 85mm round which has punched stright on through its uper turret If you play that Message from Geotz, you end up wiping out a bunch of Panzer Gs with with 85mm guns, sides kills, front kills, hail fire kills etc

From the German pouring it over him? Alas never mind, if there is one thing ive learnt from German General memoirs is that there troops were spotless so all this talk of Germans burning Russian soldiers is just a disgrace!

But we want to know if the same is true for the Russian...

exactlly, i think it was!