What do you mean? If it doesn´t work, we´ll simply keep fixing it until it does. That´s how TGW was made, and that is how 1914 will be done.
That's just not the way I would do it. Then again, I don't do it, so why do I care.Zuckergußgebäck said:What do you mean? If it doesn´t work, we´ll simply keep fixing it until it does. That´s how TGW was made, and that is how 1914 will be done.
Zuckergußgebäck said:Combined_arms_focus - Newfangled ideas
Of course, newfangled ideas would be a doctrine component, only issued to a limited number of teams (such as von Hutier, for example).
So what would you call the use of aircraft to spot targets for the artillery, which lays down a creeping barrage to cover the advance of the tanks which break through the wire and clear a path for the infantry to advance, if not combined arms?Zuckergußgebäck said:The problem is of course that there was no such thing as combined arms operations during the war, as the western front sadly showed. Surely, newfangled ideas is a better name?
Zuckergußgebäck said:The main problem was that these concentric attacks usually failed because of poor coordination.
Zuckergußgebäck said:The problem is of course that there was no such thing as combined arms operations during the war, as the western front sadly showed. Surely, newfangled ideas is a better name?
The attack was duly launched at dawn on the morning of 20 November 1917, with all available tanks advancing across a 10 km front. 476 tanks were accompanied by six infantry and two cavalry divisions (the latter to exploit any breakthrough), plus a further 1,000 guns. 14 newly formed squadrons of the Royal Flying Corps stood by - a forerunner of the blitzkrieg tactics employed to great effect by the German army during the Second World War. Notably the attack was not preceded by a preliminary bombardment, helping to ensure complete surprise.
Georg von der MarwitzFacing the British attack was the German Second Army led by Georg von der Marwitz. Within hours the lightly defended Germans were forced back some 6 km to Cambrai, the three trench systems of the Hindenburg Line pierced for the first time in the war.
The British achieved success all along the line, bar at Flesquieres (at the centre of the attack), where 51st Highland divisional commander Harper had determined not to work in tandem with tank commanders, suspicious of tank technology. Approximately 8,000 prisoners and 100 guns were captured on the first day alone.
Zuckergußgebäck said:But if you are to ut it in as 'Combined arms focus', can you promise that it will only be issued to a limited number of teams, such as von Hutier?