What's ur favorite weapon? And why?

Irinami · Post by **Irinami** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 2:01 am

Oh, BTW, AFAIK the rifle-grenades used in Korea /were/ simply hand grenades on a special bullet-trap used to launch them, and I /think/ the US used the same thing in WWII too. So they ought to--aside from range--be the same as hand grenades. (Thusly they can be "fired" (aka thrown) in the same hex or 1 hex away.)

Vetkin · Post by **Vetkin** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 6:34 am

To Bernie:

If they modeled Panthers like they were in real life, then nobody would be using them in SP:WAW. They are almost a complete and total failure of a tank not because of bad gun, armor or etc, in fact it excelled in this areas. BUT... Bad reliability. In Kursk, most of the Panthers were stopped not by the Soviets, but my mechanical breakdown.

In SP:WAW, if I was a designer, I'd model it like a check, every other turn or so, 50% chance to breakdown hehehehehehe

OR I might just be whining cuz I recently lost a game due to Panther G Uhus heheheheeh

Bernie · Post by **Bernie** » Wed Sep 04, 2002 8:44 am

Originally posted by Vetkin
To Bernie:

If they modeled Panthers like they were in real life, then nobody would be using them in SP:WAW. They are almost a complete and total failure of a tank not because of bad gun, armor or etc, in fact it excelled in this areas. BUT... Bad reliability. In Kursk, most of the Panthers were stopped not by the Soviets, but my mechanical breakdown.

In SP:WAW, if I was a designer, I'd model it like a check, every other turn or so, 50% chance to breakdown hehehehehehe

OR I might just be whining cuz I recently lost a game due to Panther G Uhus heheheheeh

I'm aware of their reliability problems, but was only speaking from the point of view of playing the game.

Sgt.Striker · Post by **Sgt.Striker** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 2:10 am

[
They have lost the 100 years war.
They have lost in the Crusades.
They have lost in the American Revolution
They have won in World War I
They have lost to Rommel
They got slaughtered in Arnhem
They have won the battle of britain
They have won the Falklands war (Oooooo, against Argentina, wow ):rolleyes: [/B][/QUOTE]

They won the War of 1812
The won the Napolonic War
They won most of the battles in the 100s years war
They beat the Spanish Armada
They beat the scots,The irish,the arabs,the americans, the zulus,the pathans,the afgans,the turks, the chinese, the ashanit,the dirvishes,the Irqaius, the Russians,anyone else?

Vetkin · Post by **Vetkin** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 7:45 pm

I see a Royal Subject has come to defend

Don't worry, I'm a canadian citizen too

"Oh Canada! ... the TRUE NORTH strong & free! We stand on guard for thee! ..."

hehehe

Voriax · Post by **Voriax** » Thu Sep 05, 2002 8:00 pm

Vetkin, there was both HE and shaped charge warhead rifle grenades. And in WW2 they all were of such type that some sort of adapter had to be used and you needed a blank cartridge to fire them, unlike modern rifle grenades that have a shot trap so a normal round can be used. You can read about the german rifle grenades (shaped charge variety) from this site: http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/8172/panzerfaust8.htm

Voriax

Sgt.Striker · Post by **Sgt.Striker** » Fri Sep 06, 2002 1:27 am

HEHEHE Thats Right,No one has beat the Canadian Army

Jacc · Post by **Jacc** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 7:48 pm

Originally posted by OKW-73

In my experience a German Nebelwerfer is a lot better that Russian Katyusha...dont know why but Katyusha doesnt seem to hit anything or kill anything...Im currently playing Kursk PBEM and i have 6 Katyushas & 122mm arty while enemy got 150mm & 105mm arty that are devastating compared my rockets and have to say that i would trade Katyushas away without any thinking...

Perhaps because the Katyusha really wasn't that powerful. It's strengths was more the terrible noise it made than the casualties it caused - which were in no means excessive. Finnish veterans remember the Russian artillery as terribly noise and impressive, but the kill ratio was lower than even in their Finnish counterparts. Strange, since Finns used Russian equipment. Perhaps time is making their memoirs better?
Anyway, the Katyusha was not an all-out superior SPA vehicle. I wonder what kind of damage did the Wurfrahmen 40 really do? Was it that Terminator that it is in the game?
And that's my favourite weapon, of course. 32cm Flame Rocket is... nice.

AbsntMndedProf · Post by **AbsntMndedProf** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 10:47 pm

I'd have to say one of my favorites is the lowly PzB-39 ATR. They're cheap. They have a decent range, 10 hexes. If they hit, they stand a fair chance of damaging or destroying light or medium AFVs. Even heavies arent immune if you can get behind them and close enough! (I managed to kill a couple of KVs in the LV camaign by immobilizing them with a Sug and then sneaking up behind them with an ATR.)

Hide them here, there, and everywhere, and watch the enemy's AFVs walk right into them!

Eric Maietta

Belisarius · Post by **Belisarius** » Sat Sep 07, 2002 11:55 pm

Originally posted by Vetkin
To Bernie:

If they modeled Panthers like they were in real life, then nobody would be using them in SP:WAW. They are almost a complete and total failure of a tank not because of bad gun, armor or etc, in fact it excelled in this areas. BUT... Bad reliability. In Kursk, most of the Panthers were stopped not by the Soviets, but my mechanical breakdown.

In SP:WAW, if I was a designer, I'd model it like a check, every other turn or so, 50% chance to breakdown hehehehehehe

OR I might just be whining cuz I recently lost a game due to Panther G Uhus heheheheeh

Aww.. that's unfair. The Panthers didn't fare too well at Kursk, but they were brand new, untested and rushed into field use at that time. Vetkin, you know too that most of the quirks were straightened out with the A and G models.

Vetkin · Post by **Vetkin** » Sun Sep 08, 2002 5:59 pm

Belisarius:

I know, I'm just ranting cuz I got massacred by a bunch of Panther G Uhus in a night battle I played recently

Jacc · Post by **Jacc** » Mon Sep 09, 2002 12:19 am

German logics:

Mann: "Herr Überdesigner, we have extremely fragile and unstable running gear for Panther A! It works perfectly on a dry day on asphalt. Otherwise, it sucks."
Überdesigner: "Hmm, sounds good. We all know the weather at Ostfront is doch seht schön, so there should be no problem rushing these newborn kitties into a large and less decisive battle. Make it so."
M: "Good. What should we do with the rest of them [large crates of "running gear" lying everywhere]?"
Ü: "Improve them, but try to lag their shippings to tank factories."
M: "And that super-large barely mobile Königstiger tank we are going to build too late?"
Ü: "Equip it with the same running gear. It should be too light for it. Thus, it forces our troops to stay near the battle."
M: "If they ever get there?"
Ü: "Ja."