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Old November 28th, 2007, 01:56 AM
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Default Re: A what if, for the Russians

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Originally Posted by Sloniksp View Post
Yes you are correct, this however was in the beginning of the conflict as radios were equiped later on. The Germans faced the 15000 absolete Russian tanks which had the same problem.

Surely the Germans would have had a harder time with the 10,000 T-34's rather then 15,000 pee shooters they actully faced?
Absolutely, no doubt about that, but i am going on what happened on the battlefield and the quality of tatics to cope with the situation as per June 1941 to November 1942 the Soviets were on the back foot, they had no answer to the Cauldron Battles on encirclement, i will say it is a beautiful thing to have all those T-34/76's but to be effective they must be able to communicate with each other and to commanding officers down the line, if they had no radio's then they are deaf to changing orders and can't act in fluidity in changing conditions of battle.

And the Soviets did learn valuable lessons in battle, they eventually massed their Armour into Tank Armies, like the German Panzer Gruppen, but initially the Soviets would lose hundred or thousands of T-34/76's not because they were inferior or that the tank crews themselves were bad tankers, but because the Soviets were still recovering from the pre-war blood letting. Leadership would be the dictate in the early phase of how the Soviets would cope with the Blitzkrieg, and they coped poorly.

But then once they got their act together Germany would struggle.
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