I just finished reading "Tank Warfare: The Story of the Tanks in the Great War" by F. Mitchell, the commander of the first tank to knock out another tank in...
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE I recently finished Patton: A Genius for War by Carlo D'este. The chapters covering WW1 and the training of the...
Is anyone thinking of gaming with GHQ's new "Wehrmacht '47" Line? See http://www.ghqmodels.com/store/military-models-wehrmacht-world-war-ii-micro-armour.html ...
I'm not interested in this, and am somewhat annoyed that they wasted time on this fantasy stuff instead of historical models. Most of these '47 kits look like...
... Anytime a "what-if" force consists of more super weapons for the Germans only, I get turned off. No interest here either. I was surprised GHQ went this...
"Most of these '47 kits look like cocktail napkin doodles by Krupp engineers or something" This is totally unfair; they would have spent hundreds of man hours...
Chris, I guess the old men haven't considered what some of these miniatures could add as scenery in late war games for some. Fighting over a Maus as an ...
... Sure we have. More stuff to paint swastikas on. Nothing but German stuff, right? Everybody else just sits back and watches the uebermenschen trundle their...
Sorry to take the easy way out of this, but I guess I have to agree with both Bob & Karsten. I think there's a place for this sort of thing, but I too would...
... I do find it interesting that so many "what if" games start with only the Germans having advanced technology as a basis. I seem to recall they weren't the...
Karsten wrote: "Fighting over a Maus as an objective in a game adds something new." This sounds like an interesting idea. Tell us more about what you have in...
Hi all, I was commenting on the fact that people were complaining these miniatures were out - I would possibly only buy the Mäuse as static objectives for a ...
Someone just asked me the following questions in a letter sent via snail mail. I thought I'd paste my replies here as well. 1) Q: How do you assign morale to...
There is also a morale method described in the files section, along with some other optional rules. Cheers, Gregory ... snail mail. I thought I'd paste my...
I just finished reading G. H. Bidermann's memoir "In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier's memoir of the Eastern Front." Interestingly, he writes that during...
Even if the Germans had more factories, they would have had trouble finding energy and raw materials to make more vehicles, and fuel to run them. There is a...
I'm reading Ian Hogg's book "The Guns: 1939-45" (the old Ballantiner paperback from 1970). He mentions that late in 1942 fifty 17 pounders were mounted on...
I am currently reading a book by Steven Zaloga on the KV and IS tanks. He mentions that while the IS-3 never saw action in the west, a small number were used...
I have added a link to the Surviving Panzers website. It contains pdf files with pictures and locations for all known surviving WWII tanks from Germany,...
I am currently reading "Iron Hulls Iron Hearts: Mussolini's Elite Armoured Divisions in North Africa" by Ian W. Walker. He mentions that in November of 1941...
Wow, it turns out that Armstrong Models actually makes the 102mm portees in 6mm: http://www.armstrongmodels.org/ They make a lot of interesting vehicles that...
I'd like to welcome all of the new members you joined the Panzertruppe user group during the past few months. Also, I'd like to apologize to Shawn, our newest...
I just finished reading "Cutthroats: The Adventures of a Sherman Tank Driver in the Pacific," by Robert C. Dick, recommended to me by Bryan B. It was an...
Chris, The 75mm gun mounted in the hull of the French Char B series was both aimed and fired by its driver. Thankfully he didn't have to load the weapon...
That's interesting. I didn't realize that the 75mm on the Char B had no traverse. I'd be interested to see what the sight looked like. I don't think that...
They had a driver, a loader and the commander in the turret. The sight was in front of the driver, and he had a fancy electric steering rig to aim the gun...
I just uploaded two figures that Doug sent in. Both show the instrument panel that the driver used to lay the 75mm. The caption for one of them states that the...
The action in this game was a Russian attack against the flank of the German 17 Pz. Div. near Orsha on 7/10/41. The rules really show the effects of German...
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