AmmoSgt
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Joined: 10/21/2000 From: Redstone Arsenal Al Status: offline
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HighWay exactly my point .. it is tactics and not a 1 on 1 match up of tanks ..T-34's and Shermans are similarily no match 1 on 1 with Heavy german Armor .. but in this game as i think in real life it is the gestalt of the threat arrayed against the gestalt of the opposing force.... Air Arty Infantry on both sides affect the equation as do terrain and weather ..and a 40 ton GW bridge is not Neutral when it comes to a Sherman /Panther Duel , neither is mud mneither is cloud cover ... neither is a bazooka team .. or nebelwerfers for that matter .. you can't "fight" the germans the same way you do the americans or russian or brits each force has it's own timing and rythyms against the other... different degrees of threat from different elements , even different proportion or kills v suppressions in the overall scheme of a battle ..what is good tactics for americans with american gear is suicide for the germans with german gear , or the brits with brit gear... and heeding Pattons Mistake i will not leave out the Russians with Russian gear
In fact you could say that the Russians and Brits had similar infantry and cruiser tanks ideas while the Germans had yet another idea of what a tank did .. the French yet another .. and the Americans yet another .... ok so they looked alot alike , armor, tracks, turret, but the differences in purpose as reflected by capability and use , make them all so different that many direct comparisons can be frustrating to the point of meaningless
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"For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary periods, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which
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