Pave -> (8/2/2000 2:50:00 AM)
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Originally posted by Voriax:
Drake, that is up to the people who do the other OOB's. In Finnish OOB this is sort of 'easy' modification as there was only 59 of those Sturms in use and not all of them participated in battles because they arrived so late...
Only 30 of those were available for the fightings of the summer '44. 29 arrived too late. Of those 30, 6 were kept in stock at first. So in early June there were theoretically 24 availalable, except number 531-13 which was used for salvage, because of the lack of spare parts.
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I think most, if not all combat-ready vehicles were equipped with logs & concrete after initial fights in summer 1944.
Lieutenant Talvitie suggested July 2, 1944 the addition of logs, tracks and and concrete (together with some other modifications). General Lagus later approved these modifications. So, no logs and concrete in Kuuterselkä, Tali or Ihantala, sorry. [img]http://www.matrixgames.com/ubb/frown.gif[/img]
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Also I believe one important use for those logs was to use them under tracks if tank gets stuck.
At least that happened.
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I've seen many pics of those spare tracks, usually at the front hull. As for how much they add for the armour is another thing. Hmm..there was a pic somewhere where an add-on armour slab had actually turned an AP round inwards knocking out the tank.
I guess the difference is that this concrete was an 'official' modification while track pieces etc are added by the crew and not all of them...
I don't know. See what I wrote above. It seems that the track pieces belonged to the list, which was approved by Gen. Lagus.
I checked the facts from the book "Laguksen rynnäkkötykit", by Erkki Käkelä.
It seemed that even Finns had better APCR rounds("Panssariammus") in use, so why cannot them be supplied in larger quantities. In v2.3 German tanks have very few if any APCR rounds, which I think is not quite right. [img]http://www.matrixgames.com/ubb/frown.gif[/img]
If you didn't guess already, I'm a Finn too. [img]http://www.matrixgames.com/ubb/smile.gif[/img]
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Pave
PS. Actually my name is Paavo
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