Posts made by cminke

if you want to affect a country it becomes at war with the affecting country, however you have a choice to either disrupt a country or not. kreig is this correct?

gust a guess i assume it’s an increased attack(+1) seince they did carry L/H mechine guns

has any one com,pared the size of an old aa bb to a new bb? the diffrence in size and detail and qulity is amazing!

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screems like little girl, faints then regains compser WOW SO EXCITED. WHEN CAN WE PRE ORDER?

il look closer a 1 is strigter look at the numberas before and after it. they are stright. the fighterS are sort of wide and 3ish

ya ty i saw them 2 weeks ago. fid me on face book (timothy-connor, minke) i have a lot of pics from the show

im to excited +it looks kool.    if you dont like it  you dont have to look at it. plain and simple.

looks like us/canada (but realy just the us)will have a hard time getting to the uk

and the allied palnes up and the axis planes up….axis =39
                                                              …allied=30
not much of a diffrence when usa can make how many turn 1?

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is any one else missing the entire german AND russian sets? me and my cousin opend the game and found half way through tering through the unit packages that there was only 4 packs in the box. japan,usa,uk,generic(ic’s, aa’s chips) has this hapen to any one else and what shoud i do to get the pieces i need (also just as in convienent the store is out of them un till e40 is reslased)

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can 1 fighter tie up 1 other fighter in a dogfight like in pacific(origanal)

on the setup pic it looks like a t-34 (oob russian) can anyone tell me of a french tank(or japaneese)that looks like a t-34?

i would have but i had allreddy supported PRG …but…i might buy a ammo box.  question FMG if i buy one will the proceeds go to the pieces?
also can someone give me the dimentions?

uk should be a bren gun carrier

ok is-3 is an outlier(gr8/9 math)

kv-2 is not!
the kv-2 would look aswume.

true but it was beast!

On August 14, 1941, the vanguard of the German 8th Panzer Division approached Krasnogvardeysk (Gatchina) near Leningrad (St Petersburg), and the only Soviet force available at the time to attempt to stop the German advance consisted of five well-hidden KV-1 tanks, dug in within a grove at the edge of a swamp. KV-1 tank no. 864 was commanded by the leader of this small force, Lieutenant Zinoviy Kolobanov.

German tank vanguard attack plan and positions of three soviet KV-1 tanks
Soviet newspaper article of 1941 German forces attacked Krasnogvardeysk from three directions. Near Noviy Uchkhoz settlement the geography favoured the Soviet defenders as the only road in the region passed the swamp, and the defenders commanded this choke point from their hidden position. Lieutenant Kolobanov had carefully studied the situation and readied his detachment the day before. Each KV-1 tank carried twice the normal amount of ammunition, two-thirds being armour-piercing rounds. Kolobanov ordered his other commanders to hold their fire and await orders. He did not want to reveal the total force, so only one exposed tank at a time would engage the enemy.

On August 14, the German 8th Panzer Division’s vanguard ventured directly into the well-prepared Soviet ambush, with Kolobanov’s tank knocking out the lead German tank with its first shot. The Germans falsely assumed that their lead tank had hit an anti-tank mine, and failed to realize that they had been ambushed. The German column stopped, giving Kolobanov the opportunity to destroy the second tank. Only then did the Germans realize they were under attack, but they failed to find the source of the shots. While the German tanks were firing blindly, Kolobanov knocked out the trailing German tank, thus boxing in the entire column.

Although the Germans correctly guessed the direction of fire, they could only spot Lieutenant Kolobanov’s tank, and now attempted to engage an unseen enemy. German tanks moving off the road bogged down in the surrounding soft ground, becoming easy targets. 22 German tanks and 2 towed artillery pieces fell victim to Kolobanov’s No. 864 before it ran out of ammunition. Kolobanov ordered in another KV-1, and 21 more German tanks were destroyed before the half-hour battle ended. A total of 43 German tanks were destroyed by just five Soviet KV-1s (two more remained in reserve).

After the battle, the crew of No. 864 counted a total of 135 hits on their tank, none of which had penetrated the KV-1’s armour. Lieutenant Kolobanov was awarded the Order of Lenin, while his driver Usov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Later on, former Captain Zinoviy Kolobanov was again decorated by Soviet authorities, despite having been convicted and downgraded after the Winter War for “fraternizing with the enemy.” After the end of World War II, Lieutenant Kolobanov served in the Soviet occupation zone in East Germany, where he was convicted again when a subordinate escaped to the British occupation zone, and was transferred to the reserves.

The battle for Krasnogvardeysk was covered up by Soviet propaganda. A monument dedicated to this battle was installed in the village of Noviy Uchkhoz in 1980, at the place where Kolobanov’s KV-1 was dug in, due solely to the demands of the villagers. Unfortunately it was impossible to find a KV-1 tank, so an IS-2 heavy tank was installed there instead.

The Soviet victory was the result of a well-planned ambush in advantageous ground and of technical superiority. Most of the German tanks in this battle were Panzer IIs, armed with 20 mm guns, and a few Panzer IIIs armed with 37 mm KwK 36 L/46.5 guns. The German tank guns had neither the range nor the power of the 76 mm main gun of a KV-1, and the narrower track width of the German tanks caused them to become trapped in the swampy ground

the monster at the road
On 23-24 June 1941 a single KV-2 of 2nd tank division conducted an armored road block in southern Lithuania (near Rassaynjay town), holding up the German advance. The Germans found themself in a trouble when they lost whole supply truck collumn. Numerious attacks including a battery of 50mm anti-tank guns (which were destroyed at 500m distance), Flak 88 (the Soviets allowed to mount this gun at 700m distance and then killed it) and an engineer unit attack all failed to silence the Russian tank. Artillery fire of 105mm howitzers achieved a hit to the track and the KV was partially immobilised. This heavy tank at the only road and surrounding swamps made German troops supply (with ammo, fuel and food) and wounded soldiers evacuation impossible. The Germans were forced to use such trick: 50(!) tanks immitated an attack, so it became possible to set another 88mm flak, which managed to eliminate the tank after two days it held up the advance of the entire 6th Panzer Division.
The Stukas were not used beacause a commander not allowed an operation “against one tank”.
By the Germans’ accounts, the crew could have escaped easily several times before the final attack, but the heroes always chooses own fate…

whitch one?