"Folgore at Alamein" Topic
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| Tango01 | 25 Sep 2020 8:56 p.m. PST |
"Contrary to well-cherished myth among game players, the German high command did not withhold reinforcements from the North African theater due to an inability to supply them there. While resupply might have been difficult, the question was also purely theoretical: The panzer divisions desired by Erwin Rommel could only come from the Eastern Front, and there were none to spare. The Royal Italian Army proved more willing to commit troops to the desert campaign, but faced a different problem: a shortage of formations trained and especially equipped for the mobile, modern warfare being waged in Libya and Egypt. In the summer of 1942 Italy had finally produced enough tanks to both replace losses in its one armored division fighting there and send a second to join it. In addition to mechanized formations, the Italian high command believed that elite light infantry also had a place in desert warfare if supported by armored units…"
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 Legion 4  | 26 Sep 2020 9:17 a.m. PST |
Well they are paras and did fight well … The game looks like it should be pretty good. |
| Tango01 | 26 Sep 2020 10:55 a.m. PST |
Glad you like it my good friend! (smile) Amicalement
Armand |
| Mark 1 | 26 Sep 2020 8:07 p.m. PST |
Training progressed only slowly as technical glitches with the parachutes kept killing trainees… Yeah. Annoying bit, that. "Who is our most experienced parachutist?"
"That would be Giovanni, Commandante!"
"Bring him to me."
"We are still gathering the pieces, but will bring him shortly, Seniore!" -Mark
(aka: Mk 1) |
| Tango01 | 27 Sep 2020 3:06 p.m. PST |
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| Legion 4 | 28 Sep 2020 8:46 a.m. PST |
Yeah. Annoying bit, that. Yeah if your chute malfunctions that is a bad thing … |
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