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beatmasta

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  1. I kinda lost interest in these books when one novel mentioned Panzerfausts being used in 1941.

    Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction. I once met a WW2 SS tank commander who ended up a Major in the Australian Tank Regiment and served in Centruions in Vietnam. A very nice guy he also liked doing sculptures and intricate wood carved furniture.

    Yep, how about Finnish officer who served a while in the SS, won the highest award in Finnish Army (and in his company served a guy who would be president of Finland) and after the war moved to US where gained the rank of major in the special forces and was MIA in Vietnam and was portrayed by John Wayne in the movie Green Beret. Anyone quess who I'm talking about?

  2. My own experiences with smoke greenades are that they are pretty "useless" (of course there's situations where they are useful) if several of them is not used at the same time. Single one wont obscure the vision in wide area from the enemys side and one wont' give cover for dispersed squad. This is especially true in the winter when the grenade just disappears in to the snow :)

  3. I have noticed quite high casualty rates among the unit leaders in SF and BN. Of course the troops are ment to be leaded not "followed" by it's leaders but it seems that in very often the first casualties is the squad leader or team leader. This seems to happen also with the artillery where squad loses one man, it feels that it's more often the leader than a grunt. I'm pretty sure that the casualty rates among the officers and nco's was higher than regular soldiers but how accurately it is portrayed in the game?

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