Morning Knp.
The Italians had no inclination to fight the British and even less the Americans, when they joined the war.
There was also a massive class divide between Officers and the enlisted man. This made morale very low and did not help create a fighting force. Italians were happy to be left alone.
The Italian army was also a foot one. Hardly any units were motorised and that would prove a problem in the vast expanses of desert and the seesaw nature of the campaign.
The British were lucky when they attacked in Dec of 1940 as they had only had limited objectives. The advance was so uncontested, that they kept going until they had Benghazi and Tobruk.
Being Italian, I love to laugh at my WW2 army’s dismal performances and unwillingness to throw their lives away for someone else’s glory.
When the Italians switched sides, however, things got very bloody as civil war broke out amongst the Fascists and Communists. Many Italians proved they were not afraid of dying once they had a real cause and future in which they believed.
My dad’s dad was in Africa, Russia and later ran and hid from the Fascists in Tuscany.
Krieghund sub question
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I’m sure it’s been asked, but if someone attacks my subs and single DD with no DDs, a ship and some planes and a bunch of TTs doing an amphibious assault, he still has to do battle with my subs even after my DD is killed, right?
And if so, when he no longer has any units capable of hitting my subs, and I can no longer hit his planes, what happens to his TTs?
Cheers
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I’m sure it’s been asked, but if someone attacks my subs and single DD with no DDs, a ship and some planes and a bunch of TTs doing an amphibious assault, he still has to do battle with my subs even after my DD is killed, right?
And if so, when he no longer has any units capable of hitting my subs, and I can no longer hit his planes, what happens to his TTs?
Cheers
He retreats. The attacker always has the option to retreat. If you had transports, he could choose to remain, with his planes rolling against your transports and your subs rolling against his transports, but since he has no more legal targets, he either chooses to remain (losing the transports) or he retreats.
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That’s what I assume, but I want to be sure. So once the sub runs out of eligible targets, the TTs must be chosen?
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That’s what I assume, but I want to be sure. So once the sub runs out of eligible targets, the TTs must be chosen?
Yes. And if you ever have a round of battle where excess hits need to be applied, they overflow onto TTs. They’re last to be selected as a casualty, but that might mean one or two out of say, 10, might end up falling during a round, if every other legal target dies. They don’t always instantly die. They only instantly die if they’re the ONLY legal target and they’re on the defender’s side.
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This is what I understood as well.
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Your sub would have to hit his ship/ships for it to matter.
Because if you submerge that does nothing.
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