WP/Nato: Infantry discussion !

[Smersh]

true, if everything was equal. Nato infantry is superior to warsaw pact infantry, at least in theory.

But that would have never been the case, Nato was always outnumbered by warsaw pact infantry. And infantry was designed to operate exteremly closely with tanks, artillery, and air power.

[narwan]

And all of that would never have been the case since the available infrastructure and logisitics base could not accomodate the use of such huge forces over such a large area (particularly with regards to the depth of the area) in so short a time. In other words, while the WP had a nice superiority in numbers on paper it would have been nigh impossible to actually achieve this in real life circumstances, the occasional schwerpunkt aside. Especially if NATO strikes (air, arty and missiles) would have joined in to paralyse the WP support infrastructure (as opposed to focusing on close combat support).

I thought this thread was supposed to be about comparing units in the game and how they work IN THE GAME. Seems like I was wrong... looks like the cold war is being reheated again...

Narwan