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You did this to trap me didn't you? After my last week's post of a ten year old news story.
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Originally posted by AtWNo - Siberia is not the same as Asia: those troops were so bad, they would often not even speak Russian
and understand what to do, they'd just run away
I'l spell it out: if an invading army conscripts you to fight and die in one of its wars elsewhere, it is neither treason not cowardice to run away from that.
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Originally posted by mcquiggdThe Siberian troops were recruited from Asiatic Russia... doh!
Siberian divisions were made of Russian people who moved to live in Siberia, either voluntarily or by force (more common), since conditions were very harsh there this made them pretty good troops during winter periods.
Say a lot of snipers that win Olympic games (biatlon and all that crap) come from my region of West Siberia - some of the largest snipers schools located there because traditionally Siberian hunters were very accurate - they had to shoot squirrel into an eye to avoid damaging fur.
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What asiatic troops? German attack on Moscow was saved by Siberian troops - there has always been plenty of manpower in Russia, even though Stalin did a lot to reduce it big time, but still to lose million soldiers (good 70 divisions) for Russia is usual thing, where as for any country other than China it is a complete disaster.
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Is that why the Russians turned to Asiatic troops to turn the tide, mmm...?
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Germans had high level of team work and general strategy, their units were also of high quality, but quality can be undone by quantity, much like outsourcing
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Originally posted by AtWSame as Tiger (though Jagdpanther was better suited for this role due to lower profile and better armour) - manual for Tigers explicitly said to use them from long distances.
Earlier you mentioned a JagdTiger - basically a mobile wall of solid armour with a fecking big 88mm L71 poking out of it. Then a JagdPanther, which is only marginally less scary.... but probably better designed, due to a solid, sloping armour frontage. As you say, both were fearsome weapons to face when attacking - but, the big difference is, Wittman didn't use thse big standoff weapons, he used tactics, and got in close...
Rudel was probably his equivalent - in terms of tank busting pilots...I believe he is even credited with a very large Armoured Cruiser.
A frightening scenario - all else being equal - face Otto Skorzeny, Jochen Pieper, Michael Witmann, and Hans-Ulrich Rudel, in their 'weapons of choice'... with Erich Hartmann and his gang provding air cover... (the Ace credited with the most kills - 352 - mostly against Russians).Last edited by mcquiggd; 14 September 2006, 22:28.
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