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The playercard argument is for anyone who post on these fourms in a balance issue. Now he claims the bofer can be easily taken out by 2 volks and 2 rackens, now for anyone who actually plays the game, knows that is not the case at all.

It's similar to someone saying that 3 Jackson's can take out a KT. But what they fail to realize is the skill players have and most of all SUPPORT to the unit in question. some people live on the fourms, with a vacume arguments...

If you think Katitof is wrong, then you should not use the playercard-argument (because it is not valid in this case for the reason I have said before), but instead give arguments for that he is wrong on this. Show and prove this. If you can present good arguments for your sake, then Katitof is forced to give proofs for his claims. But until then, Katitof does not need to do anything.

Lol you played the game? We are not talking about medium AI. I have your player card katitof. Please don't bring up what you did against medium AI. Or someone who is level 300.

This playercard-argument can only be used in cases where the other players doesn't know how to counter a specific thing or solve a problem, which is then a L2P-thing. Now Katitof gives a solution to a problem, so this playercard-argument can't be used in this case.

Not everyone has spearhead in their loadout, and a single unit shouldn't force a commanded choice.

I gave also a second option how to destroy it, that is, force it to brace and then move several Schrecks close to it. Of course you can also destroy it with StuGs, which you can get quite early.

I actually don't believe the German generalship as a whole had the skill set to win this war. They could win battles, which was enough going up against Poland and France, but they didn't have the tools (or the skill set) to execute a Sea Lion nor to defeat Russia.
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It is a BBC documentary about design and design philosophy, but if you look at some of what they present it is also about war-making philosophy. How the allied priority was first and foremost to get the quantities needed to win, not just the quality.

I have same opinion about the need for quantity as well and I also think that the Germans made a mistake when they had
a) several organisations inside the military forces (for example: Wehrmacht, SS and Luftwaffe had all infantry forces).
b) they had several weapon projects, that indirectly hindered the Germans to get enough quantity.

But I think most of this had to do with Hitler and the Nazi ideology. Hitler had some kind of strange interest in different super-weapons, which looked cool for him on the paper, but which was completely useless on the battlefield (for example the Maus). But I don't think the German generals could influence this so much. It was Hitler who was the dictator. For example Guderian mentions this quantity problem in his memoirs, when he mentions about the production of tanks and tank-destroyers.

Hitler had also a great distrust in the German (mostly Prussian aristocratic) generals. Therefore he didn't listen to them and made instead his own decisions. Hitler chose Keitel as the leader for the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, not because of his military skills, but because he would do exactly as Hitler wanted. At least the other general had this opinion at the time of Keitel's appointment and also later.

I do not believe that the German generals had so much power to influence Hitler in his decisions, either in military decisions or in production decisions. Therefore we don't know if "the German generalship as a whole had the skill set to win this war", because they didn't get the opportunity to show their skills.

Logistics is the key here. Germany had winter equipment for the Russian winter (what you don't think any of them understood that Russia is cold?) However they thought they were close to winning at all times in early 1941. ("Just three more weeks") So when they started to ship it all much of the Winter gear was stuck in the gridlock that ran the entirety of their advance.

The historian Andrew Roberts has claimed that the reason for not giving the German Wehrmacht soldiers winter equipment was not about logistics, but more about that Hitler refused to allow them that.

For example, read this article!