"Elastic Defense" or "Schlagen aus der Hinterhand" - as Manstein called it - is a psychological method of warfare too. When leading an attack, it...
Manstein could only act without or with little interference from Hitler between Stalingrad and Kursk. And then, he was very successful, regarding...
In summer 1944, Manstein wasn't in command anymore.
Rommel was a very good choice. Very small battlefields, small numbers of soldiers (compared to Russia for example). Rommels was a very skilled...
? Tankers? After the axis troops had conquered Egypt, I d'ont think the near oil fields would be a great problem. Islamic population was very...
If the Axis would have captured oil fields in the Middle East, they would control the Suez and could carry it at least to Genua (Genova). The axis...
Wasn't it one goal of the whole northafrican campaign to get access to the oil fields in the middle east? In summer 1940, Malta wasn't severly...
The only Goggomobil car that i know of is this one: http://classics.honestjohn.co.uk/reviews/glas/goggomobil/ The first production car with a...
The german answer to simplicity was: get rid of the turret! You can build 3 StuGs or two Mk IIIs. And the StuG has a larger gun, a smaller...
When everything is changed, it isn't a Mk IV anymore. Hitler proposed a new front with sloped armor for the Mk IV after the T-34 appeared, but it...
The difference between a VW 181 and the Jeep: it is hideous. If you want simplicity an the "kreng, kreng" sound of the old air cooled...
I slept several times in a VW 181 during exercises as a soldier of the Bundeswehr. I would not like to own one, even for free. It was unreliable...
Armstrong is/was not better or worse than all the others. The second ones were doped too. I think, since the 90ies, everyone was doped. So,...
Norway was a completely different challenge for both sides, i agree. But what it showed: Allied organization and tactics at land and in the air...
Tour de France was a great event, but Doping destroyed all the fun watching it. I'm not interested in it anymore. Too much lies in the past....
If torpedoes would have worked in Norway (very likely in the Channel), the german U-Boats would have inflicted losses which would have been hard...
If the USA hadn't wasted spent their money for the Manhattan Project, they would have had much more to build tanks, planes etc. and the war in...
Are there historical limits what kind of ships i'm able to build? Only types which were built in reality or can I say: Yamato is a lame, useless...
Reading Friedrich Ruge (mentioned in a link), he considered Sealion under the conditions of late 1940 as hopeless. Success would have been...
Yes, I know. For an army with a landforce as powerful and successful as the Wehrmacht of 1940 was, it was difficult to accept that a little bit...
