Abanoned artillery

[Firestorm]

Originally Posted by Imp

Realisticly how long would they keep it working, get ammo for etc. A rifle yes a vehicle not long probably, especialy partisans with no maintanence pool.
If you take something like the Germans using captured T-34s about 70% of them were used as recovery vehicles & if anyone had to make do & fix things with what was available it was probably them from mid war on.

Quite a few partisan forces did use captured vehicles in World-War-II-as-we-know-it, and this is modelled in the TO&E's of e.g. Poland and Yugoslavia.

I thought you can use captured equipment. But you must purchase it. You could make yourself a rule that you only purchase equipment that you captured intact in a previous battle.

That's pretty much what I'll do with support points when I play long campaigns.

[Imp]

I think the article shows pretty much the problems, 44-45 used a total of 3 times once as an arty base then it broke down. No mention was made of it scoring a kill so perhaps HE was all it had available.
Capturing large amounts of them or taking over a country with the manufacturing base for ammo & spare parts is a diffrent story, its now become part of your force.
I would not be surprised if they often broke down on the way to the next battle if you are talking tanks, this was the after all the 1940s.