Didn't the StG44 stay in service with East-German border police until almost
the fall of the Berlin wall????
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Weasel Fierce [SMTP:septimus__at_...]
> Sent: 4. september 2000 12:59
> To: netepic_at_egroups.com
> Subject: RE: [NetEpic ML] Epic WW1
>
>
> >For instance in the beginning of WWII they where unable to make a gun
> that
> >could both fire a low velocity high explosive and a high velocity
> >armourpiercing shell. Yet there was clearly a need for both. Two
> different
> >solutions arised, the americans chose to add two guns to their armour
> >units,
> >a highexplosive hulmountet gun( With a very limited fire arc), and turret
> >mounted a armourpiercing gun (The Lee, and the Grant). The Germans
> mountet
> >their Panzer III with either a short barreled low velocity gun or with a
> >longer high velocity armour piercing gun, and combining both in a unit.
> >
> >So if you are going to take all such considerations into account, then
> >you'll end up with a never ending armylist!!! + You'd have to have
> enormus
> >knowledge on the subject.....
> >
>
> General assumptions on the average firepower of each unit against infantry
>
> and armor is fine.
>
> Similarly, taking differences between the StG 44 and FG 42 (both early
> assault rifles) into account is a bit too much for an Epic scale wargame
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