This is part two of a previous blog entry.
We plant the mines a bit short of the the reverse slope's crest, in the hopes that they will complicate the enemy tanks enough to make them good targets for the AT guns behind us. |
We quickly return to the strong point and relocate the HMG in a better forward defensive position. |
Even at the risk of being an easy target for the enemy tanks, we grab a jeep for our trip back to the strong point (the village in front of the jeep). |
We re-join number 2 and re-position the vehicle and HMG on the left/west flank. We again find evidence of heavy fighting, judging by the amount of destroyed enemy tanks. |
The fight is intense, sharp and relatively short. Despite the numerous shells exploding near the Soviet AT guns, the weary crews stand tall. |
Yet again, when the firefight ends we move out from the strong point and finish off two immobilized enemy tanks. |
I was also denied of an opportunity to engage the German armor with the AT rockets. The AT guns were just too successful at destroying or immobilizing anything in front of them.
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It looks like first flashpoint. But it is adventage, beacuse I love flashpoint ;D
ReplyDeleteSo the outcome of the antitank gun duel was questionable because they were too effective? The Soviets are acknowledged as being good at camouflage and skilled with their antitank guns by the Germans who fought them, so what's the problem here?
ReplyDeleteNW, aren't those King Tigers?
ReplyDeleteOnly well protected if they attack the guns head on. Soviets knew to position their guns for oblique and flanking fires, to target tracks and roadwheels when they faced something they hadn't seen before, etc. In addition, historical evidence suggests that the "armour buff" masturbatory fantasies regarding the Panzerwaffe's vehicles were devised in a vacuum and don't represent actual performance in the field. Again, I don't really see an issue, especially given how difficult it is to locate a camouflaged antitank gun from a moving tank. Perhaps if the ATGs were BS-3 "Sotka" it would fit perceptions of reality a bit better.
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