Pyro do you have, perchance, $35 rolling around in the budget?

[flakbait]

If you do, get this book:

Handbook on German Military Forces
ISBN: 0-8071-2011-1

Page 262 is the start of a section on fortifications including mortar pits, anti-tank gun revetments, AA gun emplacements, and a host of other things. Some of those have 3-way drawings, complete with measurements. Adding anti-tank guns at a field could be done by placing a few Type 630 light AT gun revetments around. Giving players control of them shouldn't be too hard.

Also in that section is a German mobile pill box for either an MG 34 or MG 42. No more drunks slipping into my maproom and spilling coffee on my plans!



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Flakbait
Delta 6's Flight School
"My art is the wings of an aircraft through the skies, my music the deep hum of a prop as it slices the air, my thrill the thunder of guns tearing asunder an enemy plane."
Flakbait
19 September 2000

[Rickenbacker]

Mobile pill box? Sounds like the Tiger II.

 

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        Rickenbacker (Ricken)

                -ISAF-
the Independent Swedish Air Force

[brady]

  I have this book, for about 15 years I think?,it is way cool, but U half to careful a LOT of the data in it is wrong.
  The bunker section is great though,one of my personal favorites is the 50mm automatic mortar, basically a mortar machinegun!

    Brady

 I think I put a post up about this a few weeks ago, adding a player crewable AT bunker to the Airfields and VH maybe 2 or 3 on the edge of the AA envelope with overlapping fields of fire spaced to provide a 360 degree coverage, and make them some what resilient.

      Brady

[flakbait]

If your copy is 15 years old, I suggest you pick up a new one. The print date on mine states 1990, and the info is quite accurate. I can cross reference between this book, and German Tanks of World War II easily. They might have updated it again since '90 but I don't know.



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Flakbait
Delta 6's Flight School
"My art is the wings of an aircraft through the skies, my music the deep hum of a prop as it slices the air, my thrill the thunder of guns tearing asunder an enemy plane."
Flakbait
19 September 2000

[brady]

  Mine is a copy of a war department manual dated 44 or 45, I forget which since it is halfway across the state currently,but it is an intelligence report on the German armed forces printed originally for the war department(I also have the one on Japanese armed forces).

   It may very well be that yours has been added to in some way to correct the little inaccuracies my was filled with.

      Brady

[Dinger]

Alternatively, "German Tanks" could be based on the data in the "Handbook".  That two books agree doesn't prove anything.  What sources the books use is more important.

The Print date doesn't indicate anything but when the last press run was.  If it's a reprint that's no good.  If it's a new edition, there should be a preface indicating what got changed.

[Pyro]

I have it, it's a reprint of a field manual.  There were many editions of these manuals printed during WWII.  Information was not necessarily complete or accurate at the time of the printing and equipment changed which is why they kept revising them.  



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Doug "Pyro" Balmos
HiTech Creations