Your going to make Joe MAD! your subject is Starting to build a Tank? and yet I see no mention of your intent to build one???? I can hear Joe now GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!
Rodolphe GREMEAUX <r.gremeaux-at-wanadoo.fr> wrote:
Hi there,
Do you know if there are some free online books (.pdf or .doc)
about tank tactics ? I mean real life tactics
You may write one book down because of the rules and the front hit rule,
tactics aren't the same, I think.
Rodolphe
Steve Edwards a écrit :
> Steve Tyng wrote:
>
>> I have tactics. Maybe I'll write a book someday like Rommel, wait a
>>
>> minute, he lost didn't he? ;-)
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>
> Depends on how you define "lost."
>
> Rommel's defeat at El Alamein was more a result of intelligence (the
> British has been reading his mail for weeks, and knew exactly what
> Rommel was doing and where he was doing it) and lack of supply (for all
> it's "noteworthiness," the Afrika Corps was on a shoestring budget and
> most of what little
supplies did come their way wound up on the bottom
> of the Mediterranean). Add to that, Monty had something like a 2-4 to 1
> advantage in tanks and artillery when the battle started, plus air
> superiority.
>
> In spite of all this, Rommel held off Monty for four days before
> retreating.
>
> I don't consider that a loss for Rommel, or a win for Monty -- credit
> goes to the Royal Air Force and Navy, and the code breakers at Bletchley
> Park.
>
> "Rommel... you magnificent bastard... I READ YOUR BOOK!"
> - George C. Scott as Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
>
> - Steve "and don't forget Heinz Guderian" Edwards
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