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IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover Latest instalment in the acclaimed IL-2 Sturmovik series from award-winning developer Maddox Games. |
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I'll tell you why I can criticise German intelligence.. Of course they knew what Radar was, they already had Freya.. However, in '39 they sent a zepplin over (General Wolfgang Milch) to see what the giant masts were. They were expecting to hear some kind of response from the masts, but they had discounted using HF radio for radar (because they were using VHF and UHF) it simply did not occur to them that what they were looking at was radar because it was so primative. They sent another zepplin over because they thought that there must be a defect with thier own radio equipment and by massive coincidence on that day the station they were looking at was switched off for repairs. This further confused them, and they stopped investigating them. Once the battle had started They also continually bombed costal and bomber command airfields whilst trying to destroy fighter comand, thay had no knowledge of the civillian repair network, no idea about british aircraft production and they believed thier own 'kill' count (in this aspect they were different from RAF who were more concerned with how many of thier own planes thay had lost) In September Scmhid reported to Goering that the RAF had 177 aircraft left (they had 659) At no point during the battle did the LW have a clear picture of Fighter Commands structure, they failed to exploit the strengths they had, the use of the fighter arm was, well, incompetent. They did not look after thier men, they swictched tactics and suffered from mission creep. All because Schmid (as Galland pointed out 'Trimmed his salis to the wind' in order to please his superiors, not give them the truth) Problem is if you say anything negative about the LW on here you get a load of 'no they weren't' posts. Can we at least have some realism here? To use the 'well the RAF didn't know what was going on either' argument is juvenille, they didn't need to at that point they just needed to know what was coming and try and stop it. Last edited by winny; 06-05-2011 at 10:49 AM. |
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There's no reason getting worked up when studying history, unless we want to reach wrong conclusions ![]() I mean, one time we hear how the RAF was fighting tooth and nail while outnumbered (the legend of the few) because we like boosting the heroic aspect of the allied war effort, then we hear how the RAF had better training and production to boost the ingenious aspect of the allied war effort and make us feel good that the allies beat the axis in their own game (industry), many times from the exact same people. Well, it doesn't take a genius to understand that these statements openly contradict each other unless we provide the correct frame of reference for each one. We can't say the RAF had the better manufacturing and logistics AND was fighting an uphill battle at the same time. What we can say is that the RAF was in situation A until that point during the battle, then they learned from experience and their preparations started having a result which got them to a better situation B during a certain month. Don't get me wrong, i'm glad the axis lost, but when studying history there's no need to prop up the actions of anybody. The way i see the whole WWII in Europe is that Germany was all about trying to produce the absolute best in terms of manufacturing, equipment, new technologies and training of the people in their armed forces without having sufficient strategic resources and logistics planning in place to ensure this would work long term. Naturally, after a point in time they couldn't keep up and their system collapsed by the allied decision to do the opposite: focus on outnumbering them first, essentially throwing bodies and inferior equipment to the fire to stem the tide while stockpiling strategic reserves (of all kinds), then turning that strategic advantage into a quality advantage at a time where the axis quality factor was on the decline. If we wanted to draw an internet meme analogy, Germany was putting 100 ninjas on the field against a haphazard crowd of 1000 less experienced and worse equipped enemies. It worked initially, but then attrition took its toll on numbers, training was accelerated to replace losses and their blacksmiths lacked the metals to give them shinny,razor sharp swords to fight with, while the crowd of 1000 was growing in numbers, improving in experience and getting better equipment, so they lost ![]() |
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