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Other things that would be nice to see would be working gun crews, and perhaps individual casualty markers. Maybe not the markers: keeping track of each one, especially in large battles, might be too taxing on the engine, and may or may not look to good.

In setup will each soldier have a foxhole? You would think with each soldier represented the squad would be more spread out, and thus either individual foxholes, one huge hole, or some soldiers not in the communal foxhole. Or am I just making things up and each soldier already has one, but it is only viewed as one squad foxhole?

In setup will each soldier have a foxhole? You would think with each soldier represented the squad would be more spread out, and thus either individual foxholes, one huge hole, or some soldiers not in the communal foxhole. Or am I just making things up and each soldier already has one, but it is only viewed as one squad foxhole?

@Gpig: Though that would be much in line with my Polish heritage, they said Achtung Minen! Panzer! These were also regularly placed mines, not just a daisy chain. @Kingfish: Detonators? What detonators?

It is an arcade game, a table with a 3x3 or 3x4 set of holes, where you have a hammer and you hit fake moles as they stick their heads up and before they retreat back into the table. Basically, cresting tanks at various points long enough to make the Panther shift its aim constantly, but fast enough to keep your forces from harm.

I was recently playing the BO demo (hope to get the full game soon) scenario Valley of Trouble as the Germans and placed the AT mines in my blind spot on the reverse slope of Hill 198. Though my AT units could not see the mines, several infantry units could. About seven or eight minutes into the action, an M4/105 rolled through the mines to target an MG bunker. No damage. It rolled a little to far and came under 75mm fire. It reversed back through the minefield at a different angle. No damage. A few minutes later it came back through the field, was not damaged by mines but was hit by a shell and destroyed. A little later another Sherman did a shoot and scoot through the mines and back and wasn't touched. A third Sherman then entered the minefield but was destroyed by the Panther before it could exit. I have a sneaking suspicion it would not have been disabled by a mine. I believe I had been given dud mines. The AP mines did their job just fine but there was something maddening about those AT mines. Five and a half passes through them, at different angles, and not one detonation. I could have done better with a suicide mine unit where derelicts toss a mine and themselves under the tracks of an Allied tank. Oh, well. A win is a win. But it could have been much easier...

Point conceded.

Emrys: I owe you some info. Form what I gathered, and it wasn't easy (lots about defensers, barely anything about attackers), the operation to take Malta in mid to late '41 (July-October: maybe later, winter's no factor) was to have been much like the assualt on Crete but scaled down a little. The Germans would have utilized a Fallschirmjaeger division and this unit would go in alongside three Italian parachute battalions (one of them the Carabinieri battalion). Follow up units were not mentioned. The operation was to have been supported by X Fleigerkorps and various Regina Aeronautica and Italian naval units. British Defense was centered around what RAF units could still fly, and 231 Infatntry Brigade consisting of 2nd Battalion the Devonshire Regiment, 1st Battalion the Hampshire Regiment, and 1st Battalion of The Dorsetshire Regiment. These units later served in Sicily and Northwest Europe as 231 "Malta" Independent Brigade. Other support units like engineers, AA men, QMs, etc. would surely have been used in the defense of an invasion. An interesting side note: Pz.Abt. 66, which was equuipped with captured KV-2 tanks, was slated for the invasion of Malta though this is obviously Herkules. Anyone with further information please post it. I will now try to post some pictures of tanks deystroyed from the air, as that is the true topic of this thread.

I'll see what I can do but I have school tommorrow morning and probably will not post my findings until early afternoon.

Total Italian merchant ships that at one point had been in service up to March 1943: 901 ships, 3,855,652 tons Losses as of March 1943: 568 ships, 2,134,786 tons Remaining: 333 ships, 1,720,866 tons 63% of ships and 55% of tonnage lost.

Malta Convoys: a misunderstanding. There were a good number of convoys from Gibraltar and Alexandria that reached Malta. (some intact, some torn up) However, none went completly from Alexandria to Gibraltar. It was not completly closed to convoys, just to through convoys.

I'll get to Malta convoys a little later, but now I will talk about Operation Herkules. It was drawn up by Comando Supremo and involved the invasion of Malta and the island of Gozo as well. It would have utilised: 1506 combat planes(666 Luftwaffe) Admiral Iachino's naval forces(presumably sizable and containing BBs) Admiral Tur's 12th Naval Division(for the landing) 14 groups of submarines Here's where it gets interesting: Luftwaffe XI Fleigerkorps a German paratroop division the Italian Folgore parachute division the Italian Spezia parachute division Land Forces: Italian XVI Corps-Assieta and Napoli Divs Italian XXX Corps-Superga, Livorno,and Friuli Divs. 8 Axis Divisions against 30-35 thousand Allied troops on the two islands. What is interesting is that even after the campaign on Crete, which was bloody to say the least, the Axis was willing to assault an island using airborne troops, in this case two thirds of them Italian.

What I meant by fewer ships was that there were no ships that could be sent to reinforce the Med fleet. The Italians would have faced what the British already had in theater and would not have to worry about a sizable force of CAs, BBs, BC, and CVs being sent from the North Atlantic to stage with the already present ships at Gibraltar.

Italian cooperation in the form of a decisive fleet engagement would have helped too. Especially when the Brits were hunting down Bismarck and the Med fleet had fewer ships. If the Italian navy had fully engaged the RN early in the war, the war in the Mediterranean Basin very well could have ended differently.

There are now three conversations taking place at one time. "Impact:The Army Air Forces' Confidential Picture History of World War Two" has multiple photos of lightly armored (halftracks, whirbelwinds) and many of shattered trucks and prime movers, but also a few of deystroyed tanks. Two of Panthers hit by rockets in Normandy and one of a JgdpzIV destroyed by, you guessed it, 50cal fire. What is interesting to note is that these are confirmed kills. The pilots attacked, reported, and later ground forces secured the wrecks and varified the kills. Will try to post some shots from here as well.

I think you are right about that rleete.

This from another book:Charles Winchester's "Ostfront". When speaking about the airial battle for kursk it states: "The IL-2's main contribution seems to have been to blind Luftwaffe reconnaissance. It could overtake and shoot down the Fw189s of the German recce flights, confident its frontal armor would protect it from the German rear gunner." Better anitaircraft than anittank? As for the German paratroopers; taking Malta would have been a smart decision. It would have given the Axis and air and sea base to fight British convoys, or make them take the long way round Africa, which would have added to the supply problem in Britain. Also it would give the Axis a point from which to protect their Africa-bound convoys, perhaps giving Rommel the supplies he needed to win.

I found no gun camera footage but I've only searched a quarter of my books. I did find in Nick Cornish's Images of Kursk two pictures of a quartet of PzIVs that have been smashed, supposedly by Shturmoviks. Three are completely annihilated (turrets off sides caved in, where present, and strwen about), and the fourth has taken a massive hit to the port side. These may or may not have been airial kills, and I will try to get the pictures on this site. I do believe that they were airial kills, because the tanks are spaced very closely together, and the hatches on the remotely intact panzer have been openned. Though this could have been from an internal explosion, I believe that it shows that the crews abandoned their vehicles and they were then destroyed. (pictures taken after Germans lost airial superiority)

Are you the kind of perv that plays with naked GI Joes to get off? Someone should email Steve and get this clown out of here.

File recieved. Thanks a lot.

"parhetic"? "Bootys"? Did this guy ever get past 6th grade? Because I have my doubts.

@Stukapalooka: There's a reason the doctors give you the medicine.

Please send them all my way, if it's not too much trouble. Address is in the profile. Thanks.

STFU :mad:

If this paranoia in the forum continues, the terrorists will have won a victory... I say each new member from here on in must answer a battery of questions about louvers and the compartmentilization of T-34 engines before they register to prove that they are not Lewis.