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Great; most kind. I now have a copy en route.

I understand this book by John Gooch has recently been published. Can anyone make an informed comment about it?

Interesting observations. I am mainly interested in the Desert but also what was done on the Eastfront. British infantry divisions also suffered from lack of transport as that theatre was fought before the decision to motorisation the entire army, which was decided in 1943. As I understand...

What were the different levels of motorisation amongst the different divisions and what did that imply?

Many thanks; very helpful.

The British and Americans seem to have had well developed doctrines, plenty of ammunition and quick and decisive artillery concentrations. The Americans had ideas like TIME ON TARGET barrages. The Russians seem to be good on pre-planned bombardments but lacked flexibility once the fighting had...

Many thanks; very helpful and much more informative than WIKI. ;) A bonus to be told about the AAA formations as well! Impressive downloads. I presume these were very different to COASTAL DIVISIONS, details of which can be found through WIKI. I was intrigued by their units including...

Queries for anyone knowledgeable! (1) Milmart Legions were part of the Blackshirts; how were the Milmart Legions organised as part of MVSN? (2) In 1943 the Italian troops at Augusta-Syracuse included a battalion of sailors and an air force battalion. How would these have been organised or...

As memory serves, they were sent where needed versus assigned to all the stormos. This conforms with my understanding of 'specialist' units for their use but I have no further details on these. I guess they were mainly deployed in attack units against convoys from Gibraltar and Alexandria.

Interesting. We played something similar at our club in February 2020 but only positioned light reconnaissance forces in the remote north. The game ran in the same way and although the hills and coasts were taken, the British clung on to the airfields despite determined paratroop attack, which...

How were the torpedoes allocated? Were they shared out across the bases or allocated to specialist squadrons? My understanding is that it was the latter but I have no idea how many or where they were deployed. If there were no torpedoes or insufficient numbers what was the alternative...

An interesting analysis. So what difference would there be between an Italian attack and a German attack?

I am a bit concerned by the 8 hour turns as that might too granular for the level of action needed to reflect the fighting. TOO granular? I should've thought four hour turns would reflect the ability for command to influence the fighting in terms of Command Decision. Are you thinking in terms...

Yep - thanks - seems to post okay now.

Until now I have only been interested in uniforms worn by Italian troops in North Africa. I am now looking at the 1941 Balkan Campaign and I have realised that I am ignorant about Italian uniforms for the different theatres. Were they all normally a standard grey-green colour? What was the...

Up until now I have only been interested in uniforms worn by Italian troops in North Africa. I am now looking at the 1941 Balkan Campaign and I have realised that I am ignorant about Italian uniforms for other theatres: Italy, Greece and Russia. Were they all normally a standard grey-green...

When I am trying to post I am either getting a requirement to log on and am then told there is a problem OR I seem to be switched to Franco FB log in and get the same message that there is a problem. How can we get this sorted?

System check