[RPG's and CS gas.]

Urmm from Feluija, it seems that the Americans don't give a rat's arse about the rules.

Chemical weapons, anyone?

[Overwatch problems]

Aye, they'd be wasting ammunition. If you got some Maxims or even probably seperate DPs up there then they'd probably open fire, but since all you have is infantry squads (or that's how I read it), they won't bother.

[Scouting in a city]

Seems that luck was wildly against you, to say the least.

Tanks seem to be fairly easy to handle with even mere grenades, but in an urban environment, you can easily run into enemy SMG squads, which are going to stop that kind of tactic being handy.

The Pioneers should have basically collapsed a wall of houses (if such a thing was possible) and then your forces could have used the ensuing smoke as cover for a fair few minutes.

But that's in ideal situations, I can understand your job being much harder than that. Russians are the better choice in urban combat, and using 2 companies of Panzer Pioneers probably didn't help your cause much then.

[Scouting in a city]

It might sound stupid, but I routinely use THTs in Scout cars for this kind of thing. Fine, they're both very, very fragile units, but when you use two or three of them together then they can harrass enemy forces and sometimes take a couple of enemies with them before they die, as well as being quite speedy.

That said, I rarely play 1500< , as whilst epic battles can be fun, I quite like skirmishing and using forces very carefully, rather than large assaults, where some people use whole companies as bait.

[THE 20 mm L-39 ANTI-TANK RIFLE]

Would they not be dangerously radioative due to the tritium? A couple of years on one of those and you'd get eye cancer, no?

[How Germany could of defeated the S.U. during Barbarossa?]

I would personally say that the people who are saying that taking Russian industry over and out-producing them are a bit naive, really.

Do you not remember the "Scorched Earth" tactics used by the Russians?

I have no doubt that they'd be used against the Germans anywhere, even in Moscow.

I also think that Hitler's faith in German weaponry, especially the large stuff, would have caused him to make Tiger tanks inside of the USSR instead of T-34/85s or whatever.

On the other hand - what would have happened had he have been producing V2 rockets in the USSR and using them to annihilate Soviet strongpoints, rather than using the Luftwaffe?

I think he may well have had a lot more success that way.