A discussion that was taking play in another thread caused me to wonder and at the point I was about to hit the post button, I realized that I was braching off of a tangent of a tangent of the originial thread. So, I figured I'd stard a new discussion.
This was the post I was replying to and I think that RERomine's quote will start the tread out nicely.
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Originally Posted by RERomine
There have been instances where I used so called "captured" equipment, but only because it was on my purchase list to begin with. I recall using some T-34s in North Africa as the Germans for some reason, probably for the novelty of it. It is unlikely they would have really shipped any there.
Within the game, it's all personal preference. There is no "wrong" way about things. If people want to use captured equipment or simulate it somehow, more power to them.
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I've bought Pz-34s (Captured T-34/76s) as germany too, more for the mobility and novelty of it than anything else. You got to love that 20+ movement when compared to the 13-14 movement of pre-Panther panzers.
One of my interests has been a Partisan campaign in the Balkans. I've started it a couple of times, looking at OOBs, buying proposed forces, etc. I figure that those sorts of guerilla forces would have a conglameration of stuff that they would be using. My basic idea was to use the Yugoslav OOB as a basis, but impliment obsolete Russian units (to represent equipment that the USSR might have sent them) and the occational German unit. The Yugoslav OOB does have units called "Ustasha tank" that are basicly German kit, so I could techniclly change the name and call it good. The Ustasha and Partisans hated each other as the Ustasha was the German backed resistance and the Partisans were the USSR backed resistance so you would never see "Ustash Tank" fighting for the Partisans.
You got to love the Chetnicks though, they were the UK/US backed resistance and they would fight against both the Ustasha and the Partisans, but would also fight
with the Germans and Ustasha against the Partisans. Read "Force 10 from Navarone" or "Partisans" by Alistar Maclean for some fun stories based on the politics. So if you want to take on the world with just about anybody as your ally, play the Chetneks
Sorry, small tangent.
So, the questions or issues I would like to discuss are:
1-What are the guidlines, paramaters, generall chaotic thoughts you have for captured equipment? Cross, Imp, RERomie and Firestorm have all commented on this already so don't feel a need to again unless you would like. For their thougths read posts 13-25 from this thread -
Abandoned Artillary
2-Has anyone tried to play a resistance/guerilla group based battle/campaign?
Captured Weapons/Resistance Groups
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