I've been playing this game for almost a year and a half now, and find it quite enjoyable. Lately I've been trying to build platoons, companies,...
Hello everyone, I just picked up my first Stackpole book over the weekend Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle. I was afraid it would be too dense and...
Yeah I spent quite a bit of time on trying to pull it back, and its tough. I just leave it alone most of the time, it also worries me that it...
The Russians though did not have very good radios in the early days of the war, their armor clearly demonstrates this as none of them had radios...
Think about it, he didn't recognize that any of the men, or equipment was German, although he didn't panic, hmmm... There's a lot more to this...
That must have been a British conscript, if he did not recognize the German car, helmets, uniforms or anything. Very intersting, I would like to...
"It allowed the gunner to fire his turret weapons when the tank was moving by keeping them at a predetermined vertical elevation accurate to...
I found that the elevator sight to adjust for distance and gravity interesting. I was told it was put there to allow the gun to act as a miniature...
I don't know, it was an amphibious version of a GMC 2.5 ton truck I think. I guess it would be fine, being used for so many things, and the metal...
Mine is a round reciever, sooo... yeah not quite as good, but still accurate. I'm not very good at shooting and find that you being able to hit...
Its real fun to shoot that's for sure, the first box of Ammo was from Tula ammo, and it was in fact produced in Russia (very exciting). It was in...
The Mosin Nagant was the main weapon of the Red Army, in the Second World War. It was based partly on a design from a Belgian named Leon Nagant,...
For most bunkers and pillboxes there were light infantry guns or machine guns. Infantry guns include the: Type 11 37 mm Infantry Support Gun...
I've had this book for a while and I get alot of my information from there. In fact its lying open here next to me on my couch.
Ah, that would be the M3A1 Scout Car I believe, it was close to the size of a M5 Half-Track, quite large. I think it could carry seven passengers...
I read that the Soviets were on the Banks of the River Vistula when the Warsaw Uprising took place. They feared all non-Russian armed groups. The...
The thing about the El Alamein Defensive line that made it good was it was hard to outflank. Heaving the Mediterranean on one side and the...
I don't know if this had been said yet, but I think that Hitler and his generals were surprised by the rasputitsa (Time of mud or TIme without...
"* There were no “combined Nazi and Soviet invasions.” The Red Army did not “invade Poland” on September 17 1939. Abandoned by its government the...
I think this can be entirely based in what time period if the what time period of the war we're talking about. Early war, it would the Czechs with...
