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Overall, Soviet logistics and army were more mobile than the Germans. They economized by concentrated their trucks in transportation fleets instead of being assigned to motorize infantry. 2 out of 3 armored formations of the tank army were tank corps rather than mechanized corps. The tank corps were weak in motorized infantry while the mech corps was similar to a panzer division.

The Germans, equipment-wise, were actually the 'poor man's' army. They accomplished whatever they did in WW2 with inferior material resources outside of electronics and communications.

As far as offensive activities go, the Germans were less offensively inclined than the Soviets by a long shot after 1941. The number of Soviet offensives during the war dwarf the German. The chief difference is the fact that the Germans tend to attack infrequently but more skillfully at the same time.

The bulk of the German army was horse drawn divisions with limited offensive capability. They spent most of the war defending their positions and conducted limited short range counter attacks.

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You mean 80% of the German army, not half...

The German army very immobile compared to the allies and less mobile than even the Soviets.

They concentrated their equipment in the top 20% (mobile units) and even these were still not as well equipped as the allies. Both panzer and pzG formations tend to be far below TOE and have around half as many tanks even at full strength and less artillery support than the allies/soviets typically. Most panzer divisions only had 100 tanks or so after refitting and were kept in the field until almost everything was gone.

They only significant material advantage they had vs. the Allies was their good guns (pak, panzer,etc.)

The Soviet mobile formations (tank army, tank corps, mechanized corps) tend to revolve on a much different doctrine. They were very strong in tanks, total infantry, and artillery compared to the Germans but weaker in motorized infantry, communications, and supporting assets.

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I've always felt that the design for the British should be Germans. With the new expansion pack, I wouldn't be surprised if the Oberkommando West was a bit like the British vcoh.

I'd suggest you get the goty edition. Have both the games and the difference between the two is very small...

I don't own any MOW titles but I am also considering buy one. Is MoW and MoW:AS nearly the same in terms of multiplayer for Germans and Soviets? Is it possible to play AI battles on multiplayer (no skirmish?)?

I liked how in Vcoh the Panzer IV was a T4 weapon and not T3. So German players went for quick Stug spam while americans went TD or Sherman.

Stugs vs. no Ram T-34/76s would be more interesting tank battles then blitz/smoke Panzer IVs vs. T-34/76s Ram.

Stug III is good situationally like the SU-76. I don't think anybody makes them in every other game.... let alone every game.

Out of all the 80 or so Jagtiger deployed (I have sources better than Wiki....spielberger, Heavy Jagdpanzer and Combat history of heavy JgPzr 653), they 'claimed' to destroy only 45+ tanks in their entire history. At Kursk alone a similar number of Ferdinands (elefants) claimed 250+ tank kills.

Mind you, these are claims. US tank destroyer battalions (M10, M18, M36) in WW2 'claimed' a 3:1 kill ratio against the Panzers but this is clearly an overclaim. Tank claims tend to be double or more than the actual in my experience.

The claims need to be measured with inventory records on the allied sides. Claims alone must be taken with a grain of salt.

The famous attack, heavily publicized by Nazi propaganda, of Michael Wittmann at Villers bocage (there is a TOV COH mission on that) has the Germans overclaim by double as British record indicate a different loss tally.

Nevertheless, the claims of the Jagdtigers are amazingly low compared to the Elefants. The Elefant's claims were in excess of 10:1 kill ratio in WW2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdtiger

They saw some Action and one of the jagdtigers even destroyed one of the rare Pershing tanks at Iserlohn.