Hurin said:'Alpinisti' are the rock climbers in general.
then it suits mountain troops perfectly well
Hurin said:'Alpinisti' are the rock climbers in general.
birch23 said:then it suits mountain troops perfectly well
Hurin said:Coming back to italian army commanders, currently there is but a single engineer, and no tricksters at all. I cannot suggest any names, but what about adding the odd specialist or two, even at a low level, just to add a wider choice to the player?
birch23 said:(...) there is the slight problem...that there did not seem to an overhead plan of how we wage war,in contrast to France (defence) and Germany (armour-Offensive)reading about the Italian warfare you tend to get the impression of some OOOPPS solutions.....not meant in an offensive way by any means....
Hurin said:I fully agree with you. It's hard to find a strategical doctrine for Regio Esercito in those years. In a few words, it did exist, but it was far from the reality of the modern war and, thus, unable to bring to any positive results. Anyway, this is a game after all. If you need specialists, I approve the fortress busters, but I'd be not against those defensive doctrines, after all. Also, I'd not change the current number of logistical wizards. And what about adding the odd very-low-rank desert specialist or two? Italy was in Lybia since 1911, and a few first-line experienced officers for desert war certainly existed.
Halibutt said:The new version of the Generalicja MOD is out. 12 new leaders, 20 new pictures.
I'm still not sure if I want them put in the same sack as the guy who created Auschwitz-Birkenau just because someone likes him, but the Polish community asked me to submit the files here.
Thereare two versions:
Installer
and
.rar archive
Ceterum censeo Bachem deletam esse.
TM1 said:Luxembourg, they may be small but im looking forward to taking charge of them in the not distant future and giving the Nazis a run for there money, (well maybe ) just need a few good Generals and some divine intervention, so look after them.
Regards TM1
No, this is a brand-new working version, stand alone, build March 2nd.birch23 said:And this is and add on to the previous(which I can't find now) right ? Could you post the link to the main Generalicja again in case I can't find them.
Commisioned the building of...not built..or perhaps better oversaw the building of.....
Frodon said:I remember playing a grand strategic WW2 boardgame many years ago. The german player tried to conquer both Poland and the Low Countries in 1939. After a series of the worst die rolls in the history of wargaming, his entire Western Army Group was wiped out in the Battle for Brussels, and my brave combined Belgium/Luxembourg Army went on the counteroffensive and captured Berlin (after a series of extremely lucky die rolls)
birch23 said:The main problem for the lacklustre performance in WW2 (apart from the lack in technical development) was that the only one who dreamed of a Nova Roma was Mussolini...no one else cared,and thus no one really didn't want to fight with the BIG Guys....Unfortunately this has made Italian soldiers a laughing stock since,an attitude which I always have found extremely wrong,cause when you look down through history,it will be difficult for any European country to come up with more good generals than the various states in Italy (and further back Rome of course).Strangely enough to me most of these seems to have come from the north.(I know Christ stopped at Eboli... but...???.
TM1 said:Hi Birch
seems like your moving along fine with the election program just few quick questions and comments this time do you have a time table as to which patch you think this system will go into as i read patch 1.06 is in testing stage and may be reading in the not to distant future so are we looking at patch 1.07 or 1.08 or later also as i have been browsing your updates on the countries i have to tell you im looking forward to to playing the new system for many reasons that i have posted to you but also now that there will also be some activity in South America with plenty of coups and cabinet reshuffles specially the coups i hope this will make the South Americans more active in the war in Europe( and against each other in South America) with out having to ask them to join in if a person is playing a major power, most of the time you have to ask them to join your alliance they rarely send troops abroad and there is not much fighing between themselves over on there own continent, im hoping now we will see some initiative from the AI and some serious South American fighting, on another note which is not your department who should i post to about the economic system as i have played now a few minor countries and find that they can go economically bankrupt meaning they cant support there industrial capacity with there resources and i find it hard to believe this really happened during the 1930's and 40's, as a example i played your home country Denmark just recently and i tell you its tuff ask, not enough IC to do Research let alone build troops so who do i post too to ask for info on this subject.
one last thing on a lighter note i read your recent post and was amused at your thoughts on little Luxembourg, they may be small but im looking forward to taking charge of them in the not distant future and giving the Nazis a run for there money, (well maybe ) just need a few good Generals and some divine intervention, so look after them.
Regards TM1
Halibutt said:No, this is a brand-new working version, stand alone, build March 2nd.
Caeterum censeo Bachem deletam esse.
Confederate said:When will 1.6 be released? I cannot find a thread about this on the forum.
Hurin said:Italy had become a strong nation after WWI, and the idea of having it stronger was attractive to many, being their reasons ideological or just economical. Furthermore, most knew that a second european war was close and inevitable. I have read a political analysis upon the the Europe wrote in the early months of WWI (1914!) by an italian high officer, and he concluded that the current war wasn'to to resolve any of the european problems, and that a new one would have started just a few years after the conclusion of the treaty of peace! The italian high command in the '30s expected the war to explode about in 1943, and thus it started preparation for that event (...in delay).
The majority of Italians dis sustain fascism and Mussolini's foreign policy at least until El Alamein, but likely even until the disaster of Stalingrad. Really, the shocking event for the Italians were the tales from the survivors of the ARMIR, who told about the enormous military power of the Soviets, the mistakes and lacking of cooperation of the Germans, and the faults of italian generals.
I'd say that the italian soldiers fought bravely when situation allowed it. Unfortunately for them, they were scarcely trained, badly equipped and, worst of worst, awfully commanded: it were these three facts overall to keep low their morale, not the fascism or the war for themselves.
Perhaps a distinction may be done for the Navy. The navy officers had grown considering the British as friends, or at least as allies, to the point that no strategical doctrine had been definited for a scenario with an hostile Royal Navy. It had been hard for them to find their allies turned into enemies without a warning, and this, along with the total absence of a strategical plan, leaded to a very cautious military initiative on the sea.
About the lacking of good military leaders in those roaring years... Well, this is really hard an argument. Corruption was certainly a cause, but not the main one. I would say, but's just a my idea, that WWI experience had shocked them, to the point that they were unable lo look clearly forward in the definition and understanding of the new warfare doctrines.