Sauron1 writes, I often thought GW copied Russian W.W.II, tactics for space
Orks. Didn't the Russian infantry ride on their tanks, especially there
panzer grenadier units, and they had hugely inaccurate but still very
deadly rocket batteries and really deadly but lousy mechanically tanks?
Their air force was close support and there logistics almost none existent.
There were hordes of them and there command used them up like cannon
fodder.Sounds just Orky to me. sauron1
( Don't get me wrong the Russian peoples contribution and sacrifices in
W.W.II were painful and astronomical. When the Germans invaded they moved
intire cities and factories out of the way to the west.)
Yep, that's a fair description of the Russian army in WW2, broad but fair. Their airforce did
mount a significant bombing campaign against Germany though. I watched a show on the
Soviet air force that said the Soviets dropped more bomb tonnage on Germany than the combined
air forces of the US and UK. I don't have any hard figures so I can't give source. I always felt the orks
were based on Americans. Big noisy guns that just need to be fired. Vehicles just spilling
polution into the air. Always going to war. Showing up at just the right and wrong times. Constant
tinkering. I thought that was an outsiders view of America. So in my mind Orks = Americans ;)
John, proud to be a native of the Land of the Squig and Home of the Whaaagh
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