Comments on: FCM F1 and superheavy artillery, part 1

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 12:35:09 +0000

For a given, extremely narrow value of “never” perhaps.

By: FCM F1 and superheavy artillery, part 2 | For The Record

FCM F1 and superheavy artillery, part 2 | For The Record — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 09:54:26 +0000

[...] from part 1 Please note that this text is fiction, an analysis of how superheavy tanks would fare in WW2. No [...]

By: TK3600

TK3600 — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 05:20:39 +0000

According to its specs, it resembles more to Maus than Tiger II.

By: Iron_Tsunami

Iron_Tsunami — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 23:53:51 +0000

Render looks like crap. Hope they spiff it up to new graphic standards before release.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:24:05 +0000

That’s the thing about the French: they win battles, but they never really seem to win wars.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:58:00 +0000

Except the MK103 is not even the gun used in the Pz. 1 C. The E.W. 141 also fires a 7,92x95mm extremely varied version of the rounds used in their anti-tank rifles.

By: bondmd

bondmd — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:50:48 +0000

Srock ARL44 turret IS the turret – see tankopedia, it is called FCM F1 turret.

By: Ramlaen

Ramlaen — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:35:43 +0000

Isnt the front armor on an ARL44 120mm?

By: Phaethon666

Phaethon666 — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:36:19 +0000

I plan on hiding my M22 locust underneath this bad boy :-D

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:18:58 +0000

The Entente never intented to fight a short war in the first place; they had no need to as the longer it dragged out the weaker the position of the “continentally blockaded” Germans would become – IRL the latter were actually beginning to run low on *grain* already in like ’41 or early ’42, in spite of systematic appropriation of French produce. The basic Franco-British “grand plan” was to check and hold the Germans, let them stew and starve while they themselves built up an overwhelming reserve of materiel, and then pretty much steamroll all the way to Berlin if need be.
The Germans could divulge as much from basic economic figures and common sense (as well as bitter Great War experience), and were for lack of better options obliged to resort to a desperate high-stakes gamble in an effort to forestall it (mainly succeeding because the opposition royally fucked up).

On another note, the French were actually pretty fast learners organisationally. Eg. when they found out during Fall Gelb that their original tactical doctrine of maintaining a continuous unbroken frontline didn’t quite work in practice they summarily dumped it; by Fall Rot their defensive deployement was based on mutually supporting “hedgehog” positions which came as a very unpleasant surprise for the Germans and which took quite a bit of time and lives to breach. On similar vein the hard-pressed air force was quick to absorb the lessons learned in actual combat.