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Forum: TO&Es December 13th, 2024, 08:00 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,715
Posted By Charles M
PIATs for the Maquis?

FFI PIAT units



When you do your next WINSPWW2 updates, could we please have a PIAT unit available for the FFI / French resistance?

I note that Yugoslav and Polish guerillas have this weapon...
Forum: TO&Es January 11th, 2024, 10:35 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 2,673
Posted By Charles M
Soviet aircraft icons

Soviet aircraft icons


I seem to recall mentiong in a previous post that the Soviet aircraft icons are inaccurate, in that they display red stars on the upper wings of all aircraft, whereas from...
Forum: TO&Es August 29th, 2023, 11:09 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 4,072
Posted By Charles M
Comet 77mm APDS?

I note that British Unit # 018 for the wartime Comet tank gives an allocation of 15 "Sabot" rounds.

This may be historically inaccurate, though a number of wargame rules also allow an allocation...
Forum: TO&Es July 12th, 2023, 07:28 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 3,018
Posted By Charles M
Game Manual - UK vs U artillery

British and US artillery

Reading through the SPWW" Game Manual, in "Country Descriptions" readers will come across the comment that "American artillery was about the best in the world". The phrase...
Forum: TO&Es February 17th, 2023, 08:12 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 3,099
Posted By Charles M
Sloped armour calculations

If I have any serious misgivings about the accuracy of any features of the game it concerns the hull front armour factors of vehicles with sloping glacis plates for the T-34 family, the later JS2,...
Forum: TO&Es February 17th, 2023, 08:09 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 2,873
Posted By Charles M
PIAT availability dates

The game erroneously makes PIATs, unit nos 078, 202, 456, 530, 646 and 695 available only from June 1943 onwards, which is historically incorrect. According to Gander, p. 52, PIATSs were isued from...
Forum: TO&Es February 17th, 2023, 08:07 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 3,206
Posted By Charles M
Porsche Konigstiger?

Please bear with me if this issue has not been raised before, but I am dismayed that the game lacks this vehicle in the OB, particularly as the first Königstiger encountered on the western front...
Forum: TO&Es October 26th, 2022, 08:09 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 2,942
Posted By Charles M
Kawanishi N1K1 photo

Please note that the photo used to illustrate Japanese Unit # 372 is incorrect; the picture used shows the second version, the N1K2 which has been correctly used for Unit 376.

The N1K1 had the...
Forum: TO&Es October 26th, 2022, 07:09 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 4,292
Posted By Charles M
Japanese game notes: jungle training

Japanese 'jungle experts'?

Once again I feel compelled to write in order to correct some inaccuracies in your background notes.

In the Historical Design Notes, Country Descriptions it says this...
Forum: TO&Es October 26th, 2022, 06:53 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 4,200
Posted By Charles M
Panzerjäger I

Panzerjäger I


Please note that Unit 042 in the German OB is spelled incorrectly. There is no such word as "Panzerjager" [sic]. The word stems from the verb jagen = to hunt, pronounced yaa'gen....
Forum: TO&Es May 1st, 2022, 12:14 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 3,486
Posted By Charles M
US Army Fireflies - corrections to v.15

I am pleased to see that you decided to use some of the information and comments that I supplied in respect of:

US Sherman Fireflies
AEC armoured cars
The Cromwell and Centaur tanks
among...
Forum: TO&Es January 14th, 2022, 03:55 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 3,796
Posted By Charles M
Bad use of German

As a native German speaker, I have a real bee in my proverbial bonnet about the bad use of German in books and, sadly, in WinSPWW2. It is no good impressing people with German words if they are...
Forum: TO&Es January 14th, 2022, 03:54 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 3,350
Posted By Charles M
Spurious PzKfw IV "F2"

As well as beiong an excellent computer game, WinSPW2 is also - like it or not - an educational tool, and errors such as the incorrect naming of PzKfw IV F2 [sic] unit numbers 024, 373 and 989 in the...
Forum: TO&Es January 14th, 2022, 03:52 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 3,098
Posted By Charles M
British APDS for the US army

In the WinSPWW2 manual, it states under "SABOT [sic]" that only the British used APDS ammunition in world war two. This is of course incorrect, as the UK supplied 57mm APDS from its 6-pdr stocks for...
Forum: TO&Es January 14th, 2022, 03:50 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 3,542
Posted By Charles M
18 and 25 pdr AP capability

At first I wanted to query the absence of any AP capability for these guns, but a closer look of the game specs revealed other issues.

The "18 pounder field gun" is a mystery. Firstly, the icon...
Forum: TO&Es January 14th, 2022, 03:47 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 3,432
Posted By Charles M
Soviet smoke dischargers

In ASL, Bob McNamara gave T-34/85 tanks the option of two smoke generators mounted on the rear hull, whereas in WinSPWW2 there is no such capability.

Having researched the subject and examined...
Forum: TO&Es January 14th, 2022, 03:45 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 4,352
Posted By Charles M
US Army Fireflies

Since hypothetical encounters and weapons systems that never actually saw action can be created in WinSPWW2, I am surprised that no Sherman Fireflies are included in the American OB list, which is...
Forum: TO&Es January 14th, 2022, 03:42 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 3,826
Posted By Charles M
British Cromwell tank series

One of the real challenges in developing WinSPWW2 must have been trying to unravel the tortuous chronolgy of the British cruiser tanks produced after the Crusader series. The extent of reworking to...
Forum: TO&Es September 5th, 2021, 10:06 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,419
Posted By Charles M
AEC Deacon SP

The armour factors of '1' all round are too low. I accept that getting data on this beast is difficult, and when we were researching ASL I even wrote to the Turkish Military Attache in London in the...
Forum: TO&Es September 5th, 2021, 09:49 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,913
Posted By Charles M
Re: Polikarpov I-15 photos, icon 491

I have been giving you a hard time, which I regret. I have bee working from the encyclopaedia's list of units. Presumably you want me to find a unit within a specific scenario? I am fairly new to...
Forum: TO&Es September 5th, 2021, 09:45 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,557
Posted By Charles M
Re: AEC Mk I icon 617

Sorry to be a pain, but I have no idea how to get the unit number - some of us are computer-challenged. Please bear with me and advise.
Forum: TO&Es September 5th, 2021, 09:31 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 3,214
Posted By Charles M
Re: 15mm BESA and other autocannons

Thanks. My best source is B.T. White's British Tanks and Fighting Vehicles 1914-1945, Ian Allen, 1970, p. 50:
"The Light tank Mark VIC was used in small numbers by the 1st Armoured Division in...
Forum: TO&Es September 5th, 2021, 07:33 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,500
Posted By Charles M
AEC Mk III, icon 616

As with the Mk II, the armour factors for the turret are wrong as this version shared the new lighter turret used on the Mk II.

Suggested commentary: The last 200 AECs were fitted with the...
Forum: TO&Es September 5th, 2021, 07:17 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 1,526
Posted By Charles M
AEC Mk II, icon 616

The photo used is a Mk III, not a Mk II. The former had a muzzle brake and sometimes a small counterweight, the latter a counter-weight only. The turret armour factors are wrong. The Mk II and III...
Forum: TO&Es September 5th, 2021, 07:05 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 2,557
Posted By Charles M
AEC Mk I icon 617

The photo is wrong - it is of the Mk I prototype. A better photo of the true Mk I can be found in Bellona Print # 16, Bracknell 1968.

Suggested commentary: These white elephants were the result of...
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