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True Lend Lease

8 Nov 2015, 01:11 AM
#21
avatar of hannibalbarcajr

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I still like my version I suggested in the dim and distant past:

http://www.coh2.org/topic/12396/new-doctrine-lend-lease

Soviet Doctrine - Lend Lease

Lend Lease rarely provided weapons that the Soviets considering superior to their own, however it did provide it at a time when the Red Army was trying to rebuild after the loses of 1941 and the factories evacuated to the east were still re-starting. Other deliveries, such as trucks, signals equipment, high octane petrol and the ubiquitous tins of spam filled needs that the Soviet Economy could not.

1 CP Radio Intercept

2 CP Gold Braid

4 CP Matilda II

6 CP Lee

10 CP P-39 Airacobra

Radio Intercept - Soviet electronics were neither sophisticated nor availible in quantity. Lend lease supplied radios, field telephones and miles and miles of signal wire. Of course, signals equipment can also be used to help you listen to the enemy.

Gold Braid - The Bolsheviks distrusted officers as a class, and even the word was once forbidden. However Stalin realised that he could not win a war with commissars, and considerable effort was put into reviving the confidence, training and professionalism of the Officer Corps. Uniforms were an important part of that, hence Gold braid was listed as a vital war import.

Effect:

As elite troop training, but with a cooldown and limited to Vet 1 only

Matilda II

This was a big scary tank in 1940, and had a similar effect on the Germans and Italians then to that the T-34 and KV-1 would have on the Germans in 1941 and the Tiger and King Tiger would later have on the allies. By 1942 though, it was starting to show its age, especially as how it could not be upgunned beyond its 40mm gun with no HE capacity.

This is hard unit to price, both in manpower/fuel and CP.

It's like a slower KV, giving it great armour and durability, but its gun is only useful for AT work making it worse than a T-70 for attacking soft targets

M3 Lee

Both Americans and British wanted a tank with a 75mm gun, but a design that would fit one in a fully rotating turret was not yet availible. According the M3, somewhat like a wedding cake, mounted a 75mm in a side sponson, a fully rotating turret with a 37mm above it and a machine gun in a cupola on top. The Soviet tankers did not regard it with affection, and referred to it as "the coffin for 6 brothers".

An AI tank, with a unique weapons combination and layout that should provide some interesting tactical options and micro

P-39 Airacobra

While not an especially successful weapon for the Western Allies, the Red Air Force appreciated the P-39s ruggedness and potent armament whilst it's poor high altitude performance was largely irrelevent to their needs.

A P-39 will patrol for the duration and attack German aircraft, if none appear it will make one strafing one and then depart.

Love this idea. I have a scale miniature of the Lee and a model card with it that talks about the coffin Moniker. Really cool and unique unit though.
9 Dec 2015, 16:34 PM
#22
avatar of Volsky

Posts: 344

The Guards should be armed w. Guard Mosins (better than the SVT at pretty much everything) and a pair of BREN LMG slot items. Appear to have been issued as part of the Lend Lease program, at least on a larger scale than the Thompson or BAR.
9 Dec 2015, 16:53 PM
#23
avatar of Calm Water

Posts: 34

DSHK is a great mg, it should stay in doctrine. Guards need some buff, and ofc fuel drop, cuz of OKW flack its nearly imposiible to get that supply.
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