Re: Starting to build a tank [TANKS]

[Rodolphe GREMEAUX <r.gremeaux-at-wanadoo.fr>]

Hoops i'm deeply sorry but
my question came out of my brain right after reading that post i've 
quoted so I though (badly) that was relative

Robert Currie a écrit :
> 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? ;-)
>      >>
>      >>
>      >
>      > 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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