Re: Starting to build a tank [TANKS]

["Marc en Wendy" <marcmethorst-at-zonnet.nl>]

I found out that through shareaza.com you can download lots of US Army 
handbooks in PDF-format, depending on who's online of course ... but just 
give it a go!

Marc

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rodolphe GREMEAUX" <r.gremeaux-at-wanadoo.fr>
To: <tanks-at-rctankcombat.com>
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 3:37 AM
Subject: Re: Starting to build a tank [TANKS]


> Hi there,
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> Do you know if there are some free online books (.pdf or .doc)
> about tank tactics ? I mean real life tactics
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> You may write one book down because of the rules and the front hit rule,
>  tactics aren't the same, I think.
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> Rodolphe
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> Steve Edwards a écrit :
>> Steve Tyng wrote:
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>>> I have tactics.  Maybe I'll write a book someday like Rommel, wait a
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>>> minute, he lost didn't he?  ;-)
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>> Depends on how you define "lost."
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>> 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.
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>> In spite of all this, Rommel held off Monty for four days before 
>> retreating.
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>> 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.
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>> "Rommel... you magnificent bastard... I READ YOUR BOOK!"
>>                - George C. Scott as Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
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>>    - Steve "and don't forget Heinz Guderian" Edwards
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