RE: [Epic] Painting the little guys

From: Kelley, Kevin J., JCS <kevin.kelley_at_...>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:47:37 -0400

>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.)

John Added
>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

Actually Russian armor was very mechanically reliable - more so than the
Germans. They were weak in fire control, esp optics and communications
and doctrine (early in the war). The russians also never developed a
APC so their infantry was tankborne. In terms of EPIC I would think the
Russians more like the IG - lots of arty and tanks.


>kevin.kelley_at_...
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