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Title: German tank site
Post by: wrongwayric on April 02, 2008, 06:21:57 AM

http://www.achtungpanzer.com
I posted this on our squad website and the guys really thought it was a good read. Lot's of info on german tanks, photo's, and bio's of some of there greatest tank commanders. I can't say as to the accuracy of all the info but still worth the read.
AKsleepy

Title: Re: German tank site
Post by: Gianlupo on April 02, 2008, 08:27:54 AM

Achtung panzer is a great site! Too bad sometimes it runs out of money and the server suspend it! :D

Title: Re: German tank site
Post by: wrongwayric on April 02, 2008, 04:13:52 PM

Think i was looking for tank destroyers when i found that site. Some of the info on there about them was pretty new to me. I'm not sure we would need them in the game and i'd probably never use one with the way the maps are laid out now. The panther would be an interesting addition though. The write ups on the wirblewind and ostwind were also really interesting. :aok

Title: Re: German tank site
Post by: BigPlay on April 02, 2008, 04:59:03 PM

It is a great site but needs to be updated once in awhile. All the info is rather old and not much new has been added. Anither great Graman military site id Feldgrau, any search engine would find it. The site is very comprehensive and is very well researched.

Title: Re: German tank site
Post by: Gianlupo on April 02, 2008, 05:55:31 PM

Quote from: BigPlay on April 02, 2008, 04:59:03 PM

It is a great site but needs to be updated once in awhile. All the info is rather old and not much new has been added.

That's true, it'd need some update. A great Wehrmacht site would be this one:

Lexikon der Wehrmacht (http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/inhaltsverzeichnis1.htm)

Too bad it's in German only.

Title: Re: German tank site
Post by: Cthulhu on April 02, 2008, 06:28:53 PM

That's always been a great site. Did you notice in the write-up how few Osties and WW's were actually built.

I also found this rather intriguing:
"20mm Flak proved to be less effective than 37mm Flak and was eventually replaced by it."

Probably because the pilots of the day had more sense than we do and maintained a reasonable "floor" over enemy fields ;)

Title: Re: German tank site
Post by: BigPlay on April 03, 2008, 11:03:42 AM

the 37mm flack gun was a monster !

Title: Re: German tank site
Post by: Gianlupo on April 03, 2008, 01:30:28 PM

Quote from: Cthulhu on April 02, 2008, 06:28:53 PM

Probably because the pilots of the day had more sense than we do and maintained a reasonable "floor" over enemy fields ;)

Well, they had only one life to waste! :D

Read Clostermann's book, and you'll get a perfect picture of what it was like to dive into flak.