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Old 07-19-2008, 02:25 PM   #1
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Cool Your Army and your Navy....

If you could build up your own Army and Navy, what tanks, artillery, anti tank guns etc. and ships would it contain, all pre and up till -45 of course?
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Old 07-19-2008, 05:17 PM   #2
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my navy would be the british navy, the best navy of ww2 in atlantic, my army would be the german army, with their panzers, flaks, artilherys, etc...
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Old 07-19-2008, 07:50 PM   #3
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That is a BIG question. Lots of F4Us, Iowa classes, and King Tigers.
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Old 07-19-2008, 08:05 PM   #4
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German Officers
American equipment
commonwealth operators
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Old 07-19-2008, 11:30 PM   #5
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German Officers
American equipment
commonwealth operators
humm... how about:

russian soldiers
commonwealth sailors
german technology
american mass production
french cookers

e. romel on command

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Old 07-20-2008, 12:01 AM   #6
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humm... how about:

russian soldiers
commonwealth sailors
german technology
american mass production
french cookers

e. romel on command

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nope i'll stick with it as written,
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Old 07-20-2008, 05:04 AM   #7
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Old 07-20-2008, 09:18 AM   #8
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400 A bombs and a squadron of B-29s.
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Old 07-20-2008, 02:46 PM   #9
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A partial listing.....

Essex Class carriers with F4Us, F6Fs, SBDs
Iowa Class battleships
Long Lance torpedoes
B-29s w lots of Atomic weapons
A-26s
P-51s
P-47s
P-38s
C-47s
Panthers
Tigers
T-34s
88s
M1 Garands
American soldiers and Marines

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Old 07-20-2008, 04:01 PM   #10
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400 A bombs and a squadron of B-29s.
best answer until now !
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Old 07-21-2008, 01:35 AM   #11
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Tank: T34 and Panther
Infantry: equipped with a mixture of weapons... Rifle: M1 SMG: Owen gun LMG: Bren HMG: MG42
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Well I would use Japanese and some German Naval vessels combined as a Navy with German sailors, German artillery, German fighter planes, US bombers, a lot of Panthers and German troops and officers.
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Old 07-26-2008, 05:07 PM   #13
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Navy
US fleet but with German U-boats and E-boats and RN frigates as main A/S ships. Crews correspondingly.

Army
Infantry weapons
StG 44, MG 42, German mortars, German mines (only because they were only ones I had good info and personal experience), Panzerfaust and Panzerschrek.

Artillery
10,5 cm FH 18M, Wespe, US 155mm field how., US 155 mm Field Cannon, 155mm M40 SP. 17 cm K 18, US 203 mm How

A/T
6-pdr, 17-pdr and Archer plus some Hornisses in case of meeting some very heavy metal.

AA
2 cm Flak 38, 40mm Bofors, Crusader AA Tank, both twin 20mm and single 40mm, 8,8 cm Flak 43

Signals
US equipment

Bridging
at least Bailey bridge

Armour
Scout car, Daimler Armoured Car, SdKfz 234/3, M24 Chaffee, M3 Ht family (APC, Mortar, M16 AAA etc), Comet, CS Cromwell, Crusader AA Tank, both twin 20mm and single 40mm.

Soft skinned vehicles
Made by USA plus Schwimmwagen, RSO and 750 cc Zündapp

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Old 07-26-2008, 10:01 PM   #14
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Ok.

Artillery: German 88, American 105mm

Mortars: American 80 mm mortars and 60 mm for infantry to carry around quickly

Heavy Machine guns: Mg 42, .50 Caliber.

Light Machine gun: .30 caliber, thompson, BAR,

Assualt Rifle: Mp 44

Rifles: Kar-98k, M1 Garand

Gernades: Patato Mashers, and AMerican Frag

Tanks: Tiger tank

Navy: Iowa Class Battleships

Heavy Bomber: B-29

Soldiers: German Soldiers, American soldier

Sailors: German and Japanese

Commanders: German

Fighter: Ta-152

Ahhh thats about it
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Old 07-27-2008, 09:10 AM   #15
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So your navy would only have Iowa Class Battleships?

Ill come in and sink your fleet with my carrier aircraft, before they can even get in range to touch me.
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