Recent content by kalamona

Now, im totally without the details and the small, but important nuances, however: Since the field is next to the Danube, transportation is solved (until the allied forces start to mine the river, but that happened only in late 44 if i remember correctly OTL). Also, if i remember correctly, a...

Sponson-style hull extension. It can be even angled, minimal weight increase. Make the hull welded, that would men weight decrease - and more stylis. Get rid of the hull MG, maybe even the MG/radio operator, single plate front armor (ofcourse, angled). With the increased turret ring, a...

Minor or not, and not even too far up north - since the limes was at the danube, few days of march for romans, however, they came fromAquincum so the long way around.... Anyway. For sure, the limes was not the end of the world. Not for the romans. We know dozens of buildings on the other side of...

Trencsen castle... And your last sentence is at least debatable ;P

Nothing. Or better, avoid a dead end in tankndevelopment.

Not set in stone. Pact of steel aside, should Benny be a little bit more of a vulture (one can still attack a capitulated france or demand things without a drop of blood in the negotiations) they could have sit out the whole affair with, even with shenigans on the balkans. Bad news for the...

Suspicious suspension (since never ran a test, we would not know) and a possibly horrid, already underpowered coupled engine duo. Okay, could have turned out just fine, but usually, thats the exception.

Again, not black and white. The common myth, that the germans aimed for the perfect instead of the good enough... is at least misleading. They go for what they thought suit their needs - and those needs were different than f.e. the US needs. Of course, they had their flaws and they lacked...

They increased the original 14,5 mm frontal armor to 80mm (30/50/50+30 and finally 80) and upgraded the gun. It was pretty much efficient. The "Nazi gigantomaniac overengineered superweapons instead of simple solutions" cliché is... stupid.

Ajax was a 6" cruiser and AGS engineering space was intact. The US shell was probably more effective than the UK one tough...

Let just say, this is highly doubtful.

Human factor. If the crew is not trained, motivated and generally capable, no matter what equipment you gave them, they are more lolely to be defeated, and a motivated, capable crew can build a castle from shit. Like the israelis. Or the finns.

With NATO air supprt, yes. Otherweise, on paper yes, in reality hell knows. About---6? mechanized brigades, independent artillery brigade, after mobilization about 9 motorized brigade... lets say, the hardware and the possible manpower were there. No one wanted that tough.

Question is: Did they? Since apart from the legion, from that era only the soviet training give us some sample - and of course, the more recent US trainings - it would be worth to first investigate that issue first.

There were no winners of that war. Only losers, now the degree and the time of the loss varies, but still. Oh, and deciding not to play would not guarantee a win.