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Jump back to quoted post30 Mar 2016, 07:15 AMVipper

Fighting from cover cautiously would be more appropriate for a mainline infantry called "conscripts"

Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2016, 22:36 PMKatitof

Penal COMPANIES is what you speak of.
Penal battalions were actually well equipped, just given tasks they weren't expected to come back from in one piece if at all.

Remember the movie The Dirty Dozen? This is kind of shit penal BATTALION would do.

Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2016, 23:35 PMVipper

Imo if the Soviet army is to have a cannon fodder unit, that unit should be to cheap buy and to reinforce and should have the name "Penal battalion" and not "conscripts".
"Conscript" is a good name for a mainline infantry and Penal battalion a better name for a cannon fodder unit both thematically and historically.

Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2016, 05:11 AMThamor

1. Battle of Britain wasn't failure for original plans, because in the first weeks Britain's airforce was almost completely destroyed, their airfields were almost unusable. Don't remember who said this, but some RAF general said that BoB was already lost until (Not Hermann Göring, although he was idiot too) Hitler gave the order to bomb cities not british airpower (airfield,factory,radar). This gave very important respite for RAF to fix airfields and their airpower. He did this because Churchill in some stupid/genius idea send night bombing to Berlin, which made Hitler angry and changed totally the tactics for BoB. If they had kept the original plans for BoB britains airforce would have been totally nullified and Germans would have had total air control of south&mid Britain air, like allies had in late war.