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Re: Historical Battles Discussion
DIR By: FhYikGwAlOU
Date: December 20, 2016, 3:24 pm
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> That would be pretty awesome...... YOu will get a ton of
people looking to get into that.
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Ever the optimist :troll: :bigsmile:
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Re: Historical Battles Discussion
DIR By: SgtEhrenfried
Date: December 20, 2016, 4:52 pm
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Battle of Hannut:
Germans- 618+ tanks : Pz I, Pz II, Pz III, Pz IV
French- 600 tanks : Renault AMR 35, Hotchkiss H35, Somua S35
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Re: Historical Battles Discussion
DIR By: FhYikGwAlOU
Date: December 20, 2016, 6:21 pm
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Thanks Dale - keep 'em comin' gents!!
If you have a battle in mind, post the pertinent facts like
Sarge did and we can add them to the rotation!
Does this meet with The Generalissimo's approval?!?!?! :troll:
:bigsmile:
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Re: Historical Battles Discussion
DIR By: Duckman31998
Date: December 21, 2016, 8:52 am
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Battle of Prokhorovka
Known as the largest tank battle in military history, the Battle
of Prokhorovka saw 800-850 tanks of the Soviet army line up
against the significantly smaller force of the Germans. Russian
sources put the German number of tanks between 500 and 700.
Although figures from German sources are not available, the real
number is likely to have been far less, with 294 German tanks
having been listed as available the day before the battle. After
fierce and intense fighting, resulting in many dead and wounded,
the outcome of the battle was not immediately clear. The
Russians claimed a propaganda victory, particularly due to the
fact that Hitler had been forced to call off the attack on the
Kursk salient. Clearly, the Soviets were far from finished as a
force in the war and the tide was beginning to turn away from
the Germans.
What vehicles were used in battle?
The USSR used mostly T-34 medium tanks (70%), and light T-70s
with a 45 mm gun, as well as three SPG regiments using SU-76,
SU-122 and SU-152 vehicles. The 5th Guards Tank Army of
Lieutenant-General P.A. Rotmistrov had two regiments of English
Churchill MkIV tanks. As for heavy KV-1 tanks, there were only
two of them during the entire 7 days of battles here, and
neither was used directly in combat.
The SS divisions had ordinary PzIII and PzIV tanks, StuG assault
guns, and Hummel and Wespe SPGs for fire support. There were
Tigers, but very few. On the eve of the famous battle, on July
11th, only 15 Tiger tanks were recorded as functional. Adolph
Hitler division, which fought a the "tank field", only had 4.
Panthers and Ferdinands are often mentioned in connection with
this battle, but there weren't any here. The Panther battalion
that was destined for Prokhorovka was partially defeated by
Katukov's 1st Tank Army west of Prokhorovka, and partially broke
down. All Ferdinands were in the north, at Ponyri station.
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Re: Historical Battles Discussion
DIR By: FhYikGwAlOU
Date: December 21, 2016, 9:47 am
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Thanks Duck,
Nice thing is Prokhorovka is just one battle we can do from the
battle of the German's Kursk Salient offensive. Prok was in the
south, but the northern arm of the offensive had some big tank
battles as well....
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk
....IIRC, the northern operations had more of the the heavier
vehicles that were not available to units in the south as well.
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Re: Historical Battles Discussion
DIR By: AhBuaya
Date: December 21, 2016, 10:31 am
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Unless a particular battle had several phases like what we had
in SNS last Saturday, we could run several individual battles
per SNS.
I would also put down the exact type of tanks allowed this time.
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Re: Historical Battles Discussion
DIR By: DangerAnt 007
Date: December 21, 2016, 10:39 am
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This is a great idea!
We could start with early war battles and continue through the
tier 9 and ten tanks to the Korean war.
Lets do it!
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Re: Historical Battles Discussion
DIR By: Duckman31998
Date: December 21, 2016, 10:57 am
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--- Quote ---
> Brad wrote:
> Nice thing is Prokhorovka is just one battle we can do from
the battle of the German's Kursk Salient offensive.
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Very true. I mostly want to include Soviet tanks at some point,
we seem to always use American and German. Don't get me wrong I
very much enjoy that but I have a pretty good selection of
Russian's too.
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Re: Historical Battles Discussion
DIR By: FhYikGwAlOU
Date: December 21, 2016, 11:55 am
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--- Quote from: lll Duckman lll link ---
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>
> [quote]Brad wrote:
> Nice thing is Prokhorovka is just one battle we can do from
the battle of the German's Kursk Salient offensive.
--- End Quote ---
Very true. I mostly want to include Soviet tanks at some point,
we seem to always use American and German. Don't get me wrong I
very much enjoy that but I have a pretty good selection of
Russian's too.
[/quote]
Operation Barbarossa is the one that i am looking forward
to......all of those oddball Soviet vehicles would come into
play for that.
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Re: Historical Battles Discussion
DIR By: squiggy78
Date: December 21, 2016, 12:01 pm
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This all sounds like fun! Dangermax needs to stay away from
running anything. He will set it all up get everyone ready then
disappear for 5 to 6 weeks. Only to reappear and talk about how
he missed the event.
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