Heavy Armor not available

[unmerged(57532)]

I researched Heavy Armor (playing as USA) and it is not available except as division attachment?

Is this a bug or am I missing something?

 

[blue emu]

It's a Division Attachment.

No country during the war (or after it) fielded Divisions of Heavy Tanks... they were deployed in Brigades, as Corps assets.

 

[LogisticEarth]

It's a Division Attachment.

No country during the war (or after it) fielded Divisions of Heavy Tanks... they were deployed in Brigades, as Corps assets.

Oh but it was so fun in HOI 1 to make a 12 division stack of Maus super-tanks. :rofl: The thought of what it would take to build that, and the sight of it rolling across the battlefield is just terrifying.

 

[unmerged(57532)]

It's a Division Attachment.

No country during the war (or after it) fielded Divisions of Heavy Tanks... they were deployed in Brigades, as Corps assets.

Very mucho gracias. This information is gained through historic knowledge or from another source?

 

[unmerged(55467)]

Oh but it was so fun in HOI 1 to make a 12 division stack of Maus super-tanks. :rofl: The thought of what it would take to build that, and the sight of it rolling across the battlefield is just terrifying.

12 medium tanks + 12 superheavy armour.

 

[unmerged(42723)]

(...) and the sight of it rolling across the battlefield is just terrifying.

....and one could just hope the sight was terryfying enough to scare the enemy away since the Maus wasn't actually much worth in real combat

 

[Tachikaze]

....and one could just hope the sight was terryfying enough to scare the enemy away since the Maus wasn't actually much worth in real combat

I wasn't aware it was ever tested in combat?

 

[blue emu]

Very mucho gracias. This information is gained through historic knowledge or from another source?

I read a lot...

... the sight of it rolling across the battlefield is just terrifying.

Unfortunately, as the Maus Division grinds slowly forward across the Russian Steppe, continental drift is slowly carrying their destination off in the other direction... are they getting CLOSER to Moscow?... or further away?

 

[unmerged(55467)]

I wasn't aware it was ever tested in combat?

The working Maus prototypes remained at Kummersdorf and at the proving grounds in Böblingen. In the last weeks of the war the V1 with the dummy turret was captured by the advancing Soviet forces in the vicinity of the western batteries of the Kummersdorf artillery firing grounds. It had been mechanically sabotaged by the Germans before abandoning it. The V2 prototype with the armed turret was dispatched to Berlin for its defense but broke down at Stamplager, near Zossen. It was blown up by its crew to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. It did not see any combat.

The Russian Commander of Armored and Mechanized troops ordered hull V1 to be mated with the turret of V2. The Russians used six 18t half-tracks to pull the 55 ton turret off the burnt out hull. The combined V1 hull/V2 turret vehicle was completed in Germany and sent back to the USSR for further testing. It arrived there on May 4, 1946. When further testing was completed the vehicle was taken over by Kubinka for storage where it is now on display.

From Wiki.

 

[Tachikaze]

From Wiki.

Like I thought then.

 

[Soulitaire]

Unfortunately, as the Maus Division grinds slowly forward across the Russian Steppe, continental drift is slowly carrying their destination off in the other direction... are they getting CLOSER to Moscow?... or further away?

:rofl:

 

[uarus_strabo]

:rofl:

Yes the Maus was the original Bionic Man. Everything moved in slow motion. Unofrtunately this was in real time.

 

[Chicken]

I think Germany should have put armor plating on their houses and factories, added some tank tracks and a gun, then sent them off to combat...what would have been the difference?

 

[unmerged(42723)]

I wasn't aware it was ever tested in combat?

I was referring to its usual problems - too heavy, too slow, mechanical probs - simply a case of "gigantism"....

 

[blue emu]

Unfortunately, as the Maus Division grinds slowly forward across the Russian Steppe, continental drift is slowly carrying their destination off in the other direction... are they getting CLOSER to Moscow?... or further away?

:rofl:

In fact, I was secretly hoping that someone would use that as their signature...

 

[bubbelties]

Wrong ... again
Russia and germany are on the same plate, and moving entirely towards the east. So they couldnt drift away, unless a new convection current apears between the maus and moscow. :rofl:

 

[Tachikaze]

Wrong ... again
Russia and germany are on the same plate, and moving entirely towards the east. So they couldnt drift away, unless a new convection current apears between the maus and moscow. :rofl:

Dude, that's how slow they are.

 

[Wyrm]

Wrong ... again
Russia and germany are on the same plate, and moving entirely towards the east. So they couldnt drift away, unless a new convection current apears between the maus and moscow. :rofl:

It's not unlikely that the weight of the Maus-division will break the Earth and accomplish just that...

 

[unmerged(57436)]

Yeah, the Maus was just an unrealistic tank... unless it was used as defense... which would make it a tough nut to crack.

Now how about 12 divisions of King Tiger tanks?

 

[unmerged(56735)]

well, since we got started, what about 22 godzillas ? 11 in one team, 11 on another, playing football? king kong could be the referee..


poster's came-but-too-late note : that was really unnecessary of me to post something like that.