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It is quite clear now that the initial offensive declaration about cowardly behavior of Soviet pilots "till the end of the war" is baseless. This is all I want here. Let it not sound pathetic: men who died fighting Nazism cannot defend their ...

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As for "this is no good way for [a] discussion", you're completely wrong. If you don't trust anyone and demand attribution for nearly everything, you'll quickly find many people will just ignore you in discussions ...

<r>There were various missions for aircraft. Free sweeping principally differs from escorting when fighters have no right to abandon bombers. However fighter pilots of ALL nations did it regularly although their commanders were heavily punished for that. Everyone wants to survive. Sure, practice of ...

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Why leave it uncommented? You obviously think I made it up, otherwise you wouldn't be acting like a ...... well, I'll leave this uncommented for trivial reason.<br/>
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<r><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Ed Cogburn:<br/>
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I remember an article about Soviet air forces late in the war... I think Soviet air supremecy later in the war depended significantly on the Luftwaffe being bled white in the West. <br/>
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I would add that the AI treats bad highly fortified hexes in general: pretty often it evacuates well defended positions and even cities with no visible reason. Could Arnaud make it evaluate the fortification level a bit higher and so not leave the hexes that easily?

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Would setting a late arrival date for the aircraft types in question solve the problem?<br/>
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You can ajust arrival date of air groups (wiredit, G, HQ line ...

<t>This was a great problem for the 8th Air Force until P-51 arrival in late 1943. The limited range of P-47 allowed them to escort until Wilhelmshaven area (N-W Germany), not as deep into the mainland as used in the game. Most of 1943 raids to Germany's heart were conducted by unescorted "combat ...

Yes, but this feature grows esp. strange by mid 1943 when German pilot replacements become nearly unteachable. In reality German military training system was hardly worse than Soviet one.

<t>Maybe it's somewhat obvious, but I wonder when in mid-1943 all AT gun bns suddenly disappear. Is this OK? Do the guns return to pools?<br/>
Historically the Soviets effectively used their ATG regiments until the end of the war. On the other side in late war period Guderian tried to organize ...

Our sincere commiserations to all americans. Damn the terror against civilians.

<t>The route US-Iceland-Murmansk(Arkangelsk) was in fact the shortest and the most dangerous. Various kinds of Lend-Lease cargoes were shipped via various ways. Most of Allied (esp. British) tanks were delivered to Murmansk. This city was a top target for German strategic bombing during many monthes ...

<t>Indeed the AI often plays quite stupid. When I start the 1943 campagn in a few turns it always leaves the key hex near Leningrad unoccupied. Objectively obvious that AI too easily withdraw its units from hexes wiht high fortification level. Shouldn't we ask Arnaud to fix it?<br/>
Playing vs AI I ...

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<t>Sorry for late joining the discussion on Kursk battle. Leo Tolstoi wrote: "Can't keep silence." There were a few versions of what happened near Prokhorovka. The Soviet one, amazingly often quoted by western sources says that on 12 July "700 Soviet tanks clashed with 500 German AFV's and secured ...

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<r>Back to the odds.<br/>
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One table from <URL url="http://www.achtungpanzer.com"><s>[url="http://www.achtungpanzer.com"]</s>www.achtungpanzer.com<e>[/url]</e></URL> more:<br/>
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Principal Tank Campaigns and Battles of World War II.<br/>
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<t>We should not forget that since 1943 the Soviet tanks were mostly on offensive moving in open space versus dug-in enemy AVF's which also affected stats. In 1944 Soviet Armored Forces HQ issued special regulations that prohibited Soviet tankers dueling against German tanks on long ranges, while in ...

<t>My experience: do not turn the factories at the very beginning, wait until their capacity grows large enough. Then you switch them so that you get say x1*(4), x2*(4),... for any factory. The numbers x depend on factory's capacity and the researched item's cost. In practice the research works more ...

<t>I found a funny table of real production costs of some German models:<br/>
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Model: Price in Reichsmarks (RM): <br/>
Volkswagen Kafer (VW Beetle) 990 <br/>
Opel Kadett 2100 <br/>
DKW Meisterklasse 2350 <br/>
Ford Taunus 2870 <br/>
Adler Triumph Junior 2950 <br/>
Sd.Kfz.6 30000 <br/>
Sd.Kfz.7 ...