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4-Armor Shermans in Ardennes 1944!!!
01-17-2020, 11:20 AM, (This post was last modified: 01-17-2020, 11:24 AM by patman.)
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RE: 4-Armor Shermans in Ardennes 1944!!!
That's my job!  Big Grin

But I've made my purchase regardless. If they're not in there, I just break open my Golden Journal...
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01-17-2020, 08:12 PM,
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RE: 4-Armor Shermans in Ardennes 1944!!!
Guys, I did include 4-armor shermans in the design. On purpose !
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01-18-2020, 12:27 AM,
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RE: 4-Armor Shermans in Ardennes 1944!!!
My only point was that you cannot take minute graphical details from APL as definitive. If you could, the Bundesheer is going to have a super-armored APC, and the New Zealanders recruited their rear-echelon troops from Japan.

I am not sanguine as to a Sherman AV of 4, on a systemic level. On the other hand, I also think a lot of Allied equipment (particularly later-war western Allied) is under rated. By the time wet storage becomes standard in Shermans, the the units should be more survivable.

Of course, now it is in the hands of the developers.
... More and more, people around the world are coming to realize that the world is flat! Winking
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01-18-2020, 02:47 AM,
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RE: 4-Armor Shermans in Ardennes 1944!!!
(01-17-2020, 08:12 PM)leonard Wrote: Guys, I did include 4-armor shermans in the design. On purpose !
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WOOOOOOO! Smile Really looking forward to this game!
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01-19-2020, 03:44 AM,
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RE: 4-Armor Shermans in Ardennes 1944!!!
(01-17-2020, 08:12 PM)leonard Wrote: Guys, I did include 4-armor shermans in the design. On purpose !
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Leonard,

Pardon the minor detour of the thread, but how do the Battlegroup Peiper scenarios in Ardennes compare with Winter Soldiers (essentially scenarios 1 - 14)?  The maps will be different, of course, but how many of the actual actions overlap?

Thank you,

PY
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01-20-2020, 02:54 AM,
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RE: 4-Armor Shermans in Ardennes 1944!!!
Ardennes '44 cover almost every action by the 1st SS Pz Div (not just KG Peiper) and neighbour units (Volkgren, Fuhrer Begleit brigade, 9 SS Pz div, 150 Pz Brig) along Rollbahn D & E from Losheim to the Ambleve and Salm rivers area. A lot of published scenarios have been based on some of these actions but you won't probably recognize them because of much more detailed order of battle, different set up and very different terrain.
One third of the scenarios is devoted to the US counterattack, in January, along exactly the same roads but through awful weather and deep snow.
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01-20-2020, 11:52 AM,
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RE: 4-Armor Shermans in Ardennes 1944!!!
Now that I see the American Sherman tanks (AV) armor value being increased from 3 to 4 on the new Ardennes 1944 game, I believe The Soviet SU85 (AV) should also be raised from 3 to 4. Also the Soviet JSU152 (ATF) anti-tank factor should be increased from 5 to 6 in my opinion.

This came to mind after playing a scenario from Broken Axis earlier today. 
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01-21-2020, 04:13 AM,
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RE: 4-Armor Shermans in Ardennes 1944!!!
Use Shermans with a 3 for 1942-3 and Shermans with  4 for 1944-5.  The latter ones would be the wet stowage Shermans that increased survivability by severely reducing ammunition fires.
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03-23-2020, 04:21 AM,
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RE: 4-Armor Shermans in Ardennes 1944!!!
Ardennes 1944, I am excited to this this game released. 
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