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Yes. But they definitely come across as being used against tanks quite often. Unlike the tank brigades, they were all equipped with radios. The 3 regiments of SPGs (usually one heavy) of a tank or mechanized corps were used as their support/reserve and didn't execute independent missions from what I've read on the subject about Anti-tank artillery (memoir account: Panzer killers).

About SU/ISU-152 not quite. They are supposed to be used against fortifications, like the KV-2. Their use against tanks was improvised. Like using a 8.8 cm Flak against British and French tanks.

Op: You should try MOW:AS2. I don't find it as fun to play, unfortunately.

A historical comparison? The last time the two sides were closer to equal was in Feb-March 1943. (the subject of act-acter's game, kharkov 1943) Both sides were exhausted although the soviets were still stronger due to their reserves in which they had no intention of using.

1944 just doesn't work if one is sticker for 'approx' accuracy. The germans are too weak at this point, and the game would literally involve them holding trenches and fortification lines that they took weeks/months to build and rationalize. Then they would have a small mobile reserve to use for a counterattack. Then the Soviets would attack with 2 x manpower, 3 x tanks, 3 x artillery, air supremacy vs LW air absence, etc. Not very fun.

I have a copy of the latter. It's more tailored to the Cold War, but the doctrine of the post war army was born in WW2.

Great military organization and tactics books (some online) that I have read in the past and learned a lot from:

-Soviet Operational Art: In pursuit of Deep battle.

-Soviet Defensive Tactics at Kursk

-Panzer tactics: German small-unit Armor Tactics in WW2

-Standing Fast: German Defensive doctrine on the Russian front

-Red Army Tank Commanders: The Armored Guards (Particularly recommended: Goes into the thinking and leadership of the top 6 Red Army Tank Army commanders)

-Artem Drabkin's website and collection of interviews in : T-34 in action, Panzer Killers.

-Dunn's books: Hitler's Nemesis: The Red Army

-Death of the Leaping Horseman: The 24th Panzer Division (Particularly recommended: Unparallelled book to understand 'blitzkrieg' and the operations of the most important panzer division in 1942)

-Organization series: Stumbling Colossus and Colossus Reborn (Particularly recommended and among the most useful reads)

-Stopped at Stalingrad: The Luftwaffe (Particularly recommended, not only a great campaign history but also useful to understand Air- Ground coordination of combat operations)

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the 'supermen' of the SS in the ardennes:

Don't bother with him.. wehr fans will make their own reality...there are many complex reasons why german 'kill ratios' are high even though they lost their way to Berlin and ended up with a big fat Zero. Ditto for the soviets and why their losses were higher even though they won their way to Berlin.

Kill ratios is precisely the Wehr mindset in this war. They were more focused on this than actually finding out a way to win.

Also, the "the battle of kursk" in that wikipedia article also accounts for the soviet offensive, and the soviet offensive lasted for much,much longer than the german offensive.