Oddball_E8 Posted February 2, 2004 Share Posted February 2, 2004 Why, oh why, do mechanized german battallions not get spotters with radios? when all the other troops use the vehicles these poor buggers walk? is this an oversight on your part? or were Mech. spotters not equipped with radios for the most part? inquiring minds wanna know... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slappy Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 Hear him gentlemen, he speaks the truth. This seems a bit unrealistic. Do they just trail the phone lines out the back of the trucks while on the roll? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitty Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 Originally posted by Slappy: Hear him gentlemen, he speaks the truth. This seems a bit unrealistic. Do they just trail the phone lines out the back of the trucks while on the roll? I blame the beta testers. Kitty 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted February 3, 2004 Author Share Posted February 3, 2004 i blame bush... but it dont make no differance whose blame it is anyway... is it gonna be fixed or what? :confused: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 Originally posted by Slappy: Hear him gentlemen, he speaks the truth. This seems a bit unrealistic. Do they just trail the phone lines out the back of the trucks while on the roll? This isn't so unusual. I have an account by a German FO on one of my websites in which I believe he mentions this. I know for a fact that in Canadian infantry companies, phone wire was almost never retrieved - SOP was to just cut the wires leading to battalion HQ and lay new wire further down the road when the unit moved. Radio equipment was not as prevalent in the German Army as in the allied armies (despite the fact that German tanks all had them when many of their adversaries did not circa 1939-41, infantry man portable radios were much more rare). Can't speak to the specific question at hand with authority ie radio equipment of a mechanized German battalion, but using a seeming waste of wire as evidence that they "must" have had radios is not convincing, if that is the case being presented. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oddball_E8 Posted February 3, 2004 Author Share Posted February 3, 2004 but thats not the point... the point is they cant move with the vehicles that they are supposed to move with (due to engine limits) and therefore should be replaced with radio equipped versions... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 The problem is not hat they don't have radios - which is what it was like. The problem is the lousy non-radio spotter model in CMBB and CMAK which is too pessimistic in several regards. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 Reminder, it's only a game. I think the point here is if we simulate things with this game such as how the troops got to the battlefield, 3men equals 12 man squad, how that field gun got up the hill, etc. why cant we simulate the spotter getting quickly to where he needs to be. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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