Myth said:Here's something on German defensive doctrine from the end of WW1 through 1943. might be helpful.
Hmmm, many thanks - an extremely interesting site!
Myth said:Here's something on German defensive doctrine from the end of WW1 through 1943. might be helpful.
Kaiser Franz said:you said in an other thread you might include Bavaria....i can be of assistance in the department of leaders and ministers...thats is, if you wish.
Wämö said:Pardon my question, but I've not grasped how the big war will look. So... how will it look?
Evans said:Sounds fantastic
I haven't yet really thought about them, mostly recovering from fatigue now and trying to think what the german tree would have for defense doctrines.Juancho said:@ CCurio: If you want, post the effects of the doctrines and I'll give it a shoot and try to ease your burden
Evans said:Sounds fantastic
Berlichingen said:There are sheer size limitations for how big ships can be built, for example the German H-Battleships, after the H-40 were simply too big to be built anywhere in Germany. The H-44, the final design would dwarf the biggest and most modern U.S. Nuclear Carrier, the John C. Stennis!
Most nations would realize the limitations of size and the fruitility of just making ships bigger and bigger, eventually harbors just wouldn't be big enough and the emergence of aircraft increasingly makes gigantic ships just not worth it.
What sort of defence the french could try to develop to counter the infiltration attacks? As of now my ideas are restricted to hordes of militia/infantry holding the line while the elite core units do all the real work so to say...
Yes, that was along the lines of my plan, but the reserve/people's army forces are heavily infantry based and I'm sure that the french high command wants that their precious mechanized corps are on a fierce attack. Mechanized support might not be avaitable at all so the infantry defending on sectors where mechanized forces aren't attacking would likely have to resort to WWI-ish way of fighting, with of course some refinements.Juancho said:Strategic reserves? Deep Battle? just thinking in some names of the top of my head that could apply to your ideas, but I'm really bad with names. Basically, for France you are thinking in Regular/Reserve Inf holding strong points and mot, amored units counter attacking? like some sort of def. in deep? using firepower to stop advances?
I think i might have not explained myself that good. I think the 20's BB's would be bigger than they were in RL, and by 1936-1940 GER would be building the biggest battleships that they would build, but then as industrial/electronics/radar technologies advance those huge ships would become more and more vulnerable. Higher speed guns and better directed fire would make smaller ships more dangerous, same with air power, by the 1940's smaller nations would have come up with things good enough to counter those big BB. I do not think that any nation would actually try to build an H44.
Sarmatia1871 said:- Possibly better dealt with via events rather than as a new tech-team!
However, they could be quite good to include, as if I'm not mistaken, they were originally organised to attempt to restore the Ming dynasty after the installation of the Qing, and only later developed into a primarily criminal set of organisations - so, they could act as a quite interesting counterweight/equivalent of the Millenarians in Southern China (eg. Legation Cities and AlgOstAsien territories).
Now, does anyone know of any prominent Triad members from the 1930s?
Evans said:Yeah just change the name to 'Kaiser Wilhelm' or 'Frederik the Great' class or something
Berlichingen said:Its also important to remember that almost every nation in the world besides Germany is weaker, the Royal Navy's dominance is gone, the French navy in shambles, the US and Japanese fleets are the best, and Germany, although having a strong navy, is increasingly becoming unmilitant in the 30s and building gigantic battleships that cost millions would be unwanted, hence i had the German navy concentrate on Battlecruisers, "poor man's battleships."
Also its harder to build a ship much bigger than the Tirpitz and Bismarck, or Yamamoto, so I fail to see your point that we need even huger and bigger ships in a world where more or less only 3 nations have big-gun fleets and of those three, two already built gigantic battleships. The US' soon to be collaspe and weakening means they will exit out of any naval race, so really we're talking about Japan and Germany, with possibly a re-emerging Britian, and both Japan and Britian would rely more on carriers. So its really no point.
CCurio said:Yes, that was along the lines of my plan, but the reserve/people's army forces are heavily infantry based and I'm sure that the french high command wants that their precious mechanized corps are on a fierce attack. Mechanized support might not be avaitable at all so the infantry defending on sectors where mechanized forces aren't attacking would likely have to resort to WWI-ish way of fighting, with of course some refinements.
lifeless said:heres one...http://www.talesofoldchina.com/shanghai/people/t-peop01.htm shame i cant see the pictures...