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Probably too late at this point, but considering amphibious vehicles are in, I assume this might also include the DUKW used by the Russians? Because I recently researched OSNAZ forces (Special Purpose Motorized Battalions) and a friend of mine found some very interesting info. Basically these were special forces for crossing rivers and they were equipped with lend lease DUKWs. To make matters even more interesting, obviously they weren't able to transport every kind of heavy weapon, including the 45mm AT gun usually attached to Russian infantry. Because of that they had something called a "rocket rifle section". These were actually equipped with lend lease Bazookas, one of the few instances where these weapons were used by the Russians! Not only that, but here is a commendation for one Junior Seargent Degtyarev that my friend found and translated (don't speak Russian myself). Original document:

But did they have Schwimmwagens?

I think that is just your impression.

German stick grenades were offensive grenades, so they werent designed to produce a lot of shrapnel. They killed and disoriented by blastwave. The idea is that you can throw them into a trench and basically jump in right after. American pine apple nades and the mills bomb were defensive grenades. Due to their shrapnel they were dangerous far beyond the range you can conceivably throw them. The idea is to throw them out of your trench at advancing infantry and duck down while the splinters fly (or of course into a room etc). The Americans and British also had offensive grenades though, like the MKIII grenade. Also, German stick nades could be fitted with a sleeve that was designed to break up into shrapnel if you needed it.

No, THIS is Ramelle.

Yes. The same unit also had more M38s than long rifles, but concentrated in the artillery portion of the division.

Nice to hear about the improved Soviet oob. Lots has been said about smg issue, but what about carbines? The long mosin nagant rifle was phased out of production in early 1944, with front line infantry receiving the M44 Carbine instead. The 57th Guards Rifle Division, which took part in fighting around Berlin, reported 806 M44 Carbines, compared to only 580 M91/30s, on 1st of March 1945.

Ok, once again with a working link:

They also had this:

I have seen a few pictures of it from the Berlin operation, but not much before that. It was a reaction to the massive increase in "Faustniks" that they saw when entering built up areas in Eastern Germany.

Yes in the first scenario you need to "sneak up" on the enemy using the dead ground.

Peiper certainly didn't have a high opinion of them.

Are you sure about that? I am 90% sure that at least the US mountaineers have them (quite a few actually). What is weird about them is that they only use the M3 Greasegun and no Thompson, but that might be intentional. (?)

Absolutely not true. If anything they made rock solid, reliable stuff without bells and whistles. Like the AK, which a child can use in his sand pit and still shoot someone with.

Definitely.

Wow, 2002. Couldn't even properly speak English back then.

Yes, I am more than willing to pay for packs with well made scenarios about WWII operations.

Good, then someone can make a historically accurate version of the Studienka scenario.

Would be interesting if wounded guys died quicker.

Yes, many of the new scenarios (at least at a glance) seem to be very infantry focused.

I think in the USA campaign.

Low armor quality might have played a part.

French Forces: P14 Enfield rifles has the same icon as the M1917 Enfield, despite the 3d model being equipped with a scope.

Personally I don't play the quick battles at all, so it is all campaigns and scenarios for me. I played one so far, with Brazilians, which I found good. I had short looks at the briefings and maps of some others and there seems to be a good variety of different setups with some really interesting and extreme terrain. So all in all I would give a thumbs up. That being said, it feels like the modul maybe would have needed one more "thing" in it to really round it out. Sure, there are lots of new nations in it, but many feel like variations on what is already there. Realistic of course and not a huge deal, but because of that one wonders if maybe having the RSI in, or the FSSF, or the aforementioned French variants would have made it feel a bit more of a slam dunk. Another aspect is that in many ways, if feels a bit like the "star battles" Anzio and Monte Cassino had been covered in Gustav Line. This is probably unfair, but it certainly feels like you are playing in more of a "backwater" after June 44, with fewer big standouts. On the other hand, that also means you will learn more about an underappreciated part of the war, so I can go both ways on this. One thing I haven't noticed so far by the way are the infamous "version 4" AI misadventures. I had never bought one of these upgrades before, but it seems like in this version whatever bugs there were were largely fixed.

Sorry to dig this up again, but I found this table with SVT-40 production numbers quite illuminating: What this shows is that the SVT was actually already replaced in production in mid 1942, with later models all being the full auto capable AVT-40.