Wide Tracked, Diesel Panzers
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NothingNow
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Honestly, they'd just have been a bit more efficient, slightly harder to kill, and not particularly more agile off-road.
It would free up gasoline for other things, but cause some serious logistical headaches as just about everything else runs on gasoline. It might buy the Luftwaffe a couple months of fuel, but compared to the Allies, they'll still be dreadfully short on fuel, and it'll maybe draw things out a month.
As for the engines, Junkers and MAN seem like they'd be ideal vendors, particularly since the Jumo 204 series would, once suitably modified, make a better engine for a heavy tank than the HL210.
It would free up gasoline for other things, but cause some serious logistical headaches as just about everything else runs on gasoline. It might buy the Luftwaffe a couple months of fuel, but compared to the Allies, they'll still be dreadfully short on fuel, and it'll maybe draw things out a month.
As for the engines, Junkers and MAN seem like they'd be ideal vendors, particularly since the Jumo 204 series would, once suitably modified, make a better engine for a heavy tank than the HL210.
Britain can't fall, and every second Germany delays invading the USSR, Soviet military strength and defenses grows by a significant amount.
NothingNow
Banned
Yep.
The Germans don't actually have any particularly effective means of forcing the UK to capitulate, and can't make it across the channel to invade.
meanwhile, the german treasury steadily runs out of the looted gold needed to keep everything running, and Stalin's armies grow stronger by the day.
Indeed, something often ignored by the 'Germany does better' crowd who seem to be quite prevalent on the board of late.
What i never understand that Wehrmacht were so zealous about petrol engine in there Tanks.
Diesel engine would have give the Wehrmacht more Mobility
because the Petrol was scarce goods for germans war-machine.
on the other hand the German synthetic fuel from coal produce quantity of synthetic diesel.
Diesel engine would have give the Wehrmacht more Mobility
because the Petrol was scarce goods for germans war-machine.
on the other hand the German synthetic fuel from coal produce quantity of synthetic diesel.
Garrison
Donor
As others have said would make a marginal difference. What the Germans really needed to do was simplify their designs to increase production. However if the do that it just means more tanks they have to find steel to build and supply with fuel and ammo. You might end of with the jet fighter situation; be the end of the war they had hundreds of them sitting around without the fuel or pilots to fly them.
Those plants were also producing the majority of Germany's aviation fuel, which probably factored highly into their planning. The fact is, the Germans didn't really have any excess production anywhere, if they'd switched to synthetic diesel, they'd have had to cut back on aviation fuel, and that wouldn't have helped one bit.
None or maybe more fuel problems ? You can't just decide to produce more diesel with a given amount of oil. You can produce a little bit more, but this involve retooling reffineries, and you won't have a lot more diesel. This is a problem in France nowaday as due to having far more diesel vehicules, there is a deficit of diesel production and a surplus of petrol production. And it won't give the luftwaffe more staying power as petrol is very bad for most plane engines (that is why you use kerosene and not petrol), which would mean that yes, luftwaffe's plane could fly a little more in time of kerosene needs but at the cost of performance and engne durability.
For wider tracks it would help a little bit for mobility in mud, but that would change nothing in the grand scheme of things, as without enough fuel you would your larger track would mean nothing.