Recent content by hammurabi70

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?

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