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As I said, the problem with your statement was, is, and remains, that it implies that the only accepted understanding of Russian mobile operations in WW2, for the whole of the war, is basically, to paraphrase, brute ...

I don't have a USB joystick! But I've got a hankering!

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Then we seem to be talking at cross purposes.<br/>
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You made a statement, implying that it was definitive and inarguably correct.<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Actually, the Soviets used mass attack with pretty much everything at the ...

We could settle this with some IL-2 Sturmovik.

I've still got a copy.&nbsp;[:)]

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Indeed, just as I was implying in my response to Barbarossa. He was describing combined arms operations, however conducted, and that is what the early war Blitz doctrine evolved into.<br/>
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I could have gone into the historiography of ...

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A number of writers on the topic wouldn't agree with you, or not completely, including Glantz, amongst others.<br/>
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Actually, the Soviets used mass attack with pretty much everything at the same time after hellish artillery prep. They overwhelmed with numbers, not pretty or tactically sophisticated. But the ...

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Remember, the Soviet armed forces were about 85% leg infantry ... only 15% motorised ... and supply for leg infantry units was almost 100% by train ...

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Hmm..I also find it ironic that the axis was sitting on a large supply of oil the whole time in Libya. They started drilling in 1955.<br/>
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When I was younger, I worked for a guy who was a Counter-Espionage agent for ...

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Hmm..I dont know.. only took about 5 seconds of searching to find this:<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> Consequently, by January 1943, the Germans were able to eke out no more than 70 barrels per day there (Yergin, 336-337).<br/>

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<t> I've had the game for almost a month. I've completed one 41-45 campaign as the Soviets, one on going Axis 41-45 and one on-going Soviet 42-45. I'm having a blast with WiTE. <br/>
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I just jumped in without teasing out every little "gamey" feature and exploit out of the manual or from these ...

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There are few nice tweaks, but they do not answer most important problems - practically non-existent logistics, too efficient high ROF elements ...

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How odd, on a forum dedicated to a wargame, which in itself by definition is a what-if of a historical scenario, someone would post this, which in effect says its foolish to even ...

You are forgiven.&nbsp;

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<B><s>[b]</s>I.<e>[/b]</e></B> Could the Germans have developed the Panther tank in 1939?<br/>
<B><s>[b]</s>II.<e>[/b]</e></B> What if the FW190 was used instead of the Me109?<br ...

<t> Perhaps if the Germans had gotten a look at the T-34 prior to the opening of hostilities they might have thought twice. Maybe. That would be an interesting scenario for WiTE a 1943 Barbarrossa without a Western front. Panthers and Tigers oh my.<br/>
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The Bf-109 had some flaws. Narrow ...

Sending a recon plane over the hex will most times give you the composition of the enemy element if just mousing over doesn't work alone.

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Operation Bagration was launched on June, 22 1944, just 16 days after D-Day. Army Group Centre was very virtually annhilated, with ~ 400,000 overall casualties. The Soviets did not need the ...

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That the combat ratio was 4 to 1 + in 1942?
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Then why was the German summer '42 offensive confined to the south, and why were efforts to relieve the 6th Army at Stalingrad a failure? Perhaps it was 4 to 1 ...

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The only thing that saved Russia was Overlord. Germany had to move allot of troops to the Western front from 43 on.<br/>
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But then I read this....<br/>
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