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Armored Utilization

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 3:12 pm
by Beruldsen
I've played a handful of scenarios now...and I'm really enjoying the game. I'm curious about what the best utilization of mechanized forces is. I thought I read somewhere that avoid combat and use to encircle and drive forward.

What do you all think?

RE: Armored Utilization

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 3:32 pm
by cookie monster

RE: Armored Utilization

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:02 pm
by Pipewrench
good link cookie,

to add

www.panzertruppen.org/manual/muestra/heinz.pdf
 
quote [left]"It was principally the books and[/left][left]articles of the Englishmen, Fuller,[/left][left]Liddell Hart and Martel, that excited[/left][left]my interest and gave me[/left][left]food for thought. These farsighted[/left][left]soldiers were even then[/left][left]trying to make of the tank something[/left][left]more than just an infantry[/left][left]support weapon. They envisaged[/left][left]it in relationship to the growing[/left][left]motorisation of our age, and thus[/left][left]they became the pioneers of a[/left][left]new type of warfare on the largest[/left][left]scale.[/left][left]I learned from them the concentration[/left][left]of armour, as employed in[/left][left]the battle of Cambrai. Further, it[/left][left]was Liddell Hart who emphasised[/left][left]the use of armoured forces for[/left][left]long-range strokes, operations[/left][left]against the opposing army's communications,[/left][left]and also proposed a[/left][left]type of armoured division combining[/left][left]panzer and panzer-infantry[/left]units."

the game mirrors exploitation very well and that is key. Use your mechanized forces to attack supply.

“In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.”
Rommel

RE: Armored Utilization

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:09 pm
by G Felzien
Excellent quote Pipe.

RE: Armored Utilization

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2011 12:45 pm
by Beruldsen
Excellent reading...thank you!!