<r><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Lynx:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>LOL,No worries posters,<br/>
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An 81mm is equiv to a 105How and a 120mm is equiv to a 150How in shell power, but the 120's don't do 150 equiv damage, and the 81's just force coffee breaks. I remember reading mortars caused most ...

<r><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Voriax:<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>And as it takes some time after the impact to the fuse to work the round will dig in to some degree...afaik rather deeply in case of slow fuses.<br/>
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FYI . . . <br/>
Point detonating ...

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<r><QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Originally posted by Belisarius:<br/>
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....aaand the fact that most the majority of the (quite competent) officer corps were terminated during Stalin's cleansings in the 30's. Well, as you all know, that went on throughout the war. I guess he (stalin ...

Originally posted by Belisarius:


Splitting hairs.

I KNOW it's a difference between the two. I was just making a comparison to explain my point. Sheesh.

Sorry. I'll settle down.

<t>Can you tell the difference between an 81 and a 150mm shell? The former weighs less than 10lbs, and makes a little tiny pop when it detonates (more like Steel 3 than SPWAW). 150 rounds weigh 75-100lbs, and make the earth shake for miles. 81's don't even leave craters, just knock down the plants ...

<t>Tombstone, you're entirely correct that everything was completely different between '41 & '42. The Russains were in the middle of modernizing their miltary in '41. The new equipment had all been designed and accepted, but issue to line units was only beginning. Also, the Soviets had completely ...

<t>The Germans were so successful in the first year of the war because of their operational and tactical doctrine and training. In most countries (including Britain, France, and the US), officers learned tactics in a classroom, and were given lots of time to think through their solutions to every ...

<t>The Germans tankers didn't use their 37mm against infantry, because it was so ineffective. As for AT guns, well, that was what the PzIV was for. This does, of course, seem silly to us now, but that was the thinking at the beginning of the war. The only reason they had HE was because all German ...

<t>1 Canadain Mechanized Brigade conducted an urban warfare exercise recently in the city of Edmonton, on a base which is being closed and has lots of abandoned buildings scheduled for demolition. The exercise was run at platoon level, and one of the tasks was for a platoon to take a series of small ...

<t>Artillery accuracy:<br/>
Some important things to note about indirect fire are that the bigger the gun, the more accurate it is. 175mm, 8", and big naval artillery can put every round in the same hole, if the conditions are right. At the same time, however, nobody wants to do that. Artillery ...

<t>Many, mant weapons were capable of indirect fire that aren't given that ability in the game. Even tanks can, and I have read accounts of US tanks firing indirect in Korea. Modern military MG doctrine inludes the use of MGs on SF (sustained fire) mounts for indirect fire.<br/>
The limitations with ...

<t>In the original StuG Bty 6-gun organization, four SdKfz 253s were included; one for the battery commander, and one for each commander of the two-gun troops. By '41, the official organization had changed to a two-troop system, and put the battery and troop commanders in their own StuGs (although ...

<t>This is a subject I'm a bit familiar with.<br/>
An old military truth is that all nations prepare for the previous war. <br/>
In this light, after their sound beating by Allied armor in WWI, the Germans decided to issue ALL guns with armor-defeating ammunition. This is why the 88s had AP in Spain ...