Re: Multi-genre Dirtside II at conventions...

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From: Flak Magnet <flakmagnet@tabletop-battlezone.com>
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Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: Multi-genre Dirtside II at conventions...

> On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 17:11, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Flak Magnet" <flakmagnet@tabletop-battlezone.com>
> >
> > > Definitely no missiles for WWII.
> > Actually, Germany developed and (very occasionally) used various
missile
> > types during the war. If you want to do an alternate history
'Wehrmacht
> > 1946'  scenario you could use them. For a normal game, better leave
them
> > out.
>
> Missiles, or rockets?  My understanding of the two terms is that
> Missiles are guided, capable of in-flight adjustments to their
> trajectory and rockets are "dumb" basically rising on a booster and
> falling where the trajectory takes them.
>
> > > Biochem I'm not sure I'd use.  I'm not entirely sure it would be
> > > accurate.  I have yet to see a specific reference to it's use in
WWII
> > > (WWI, certainly, but not WWII.)  Someone who is a bit more up on
WWII
> > > history, please enlighten me.
> >
> > Nobody used gas warfare in the Second World War. Certainly not
poison
gas. I
> > recently came across my first reference of German use of tear gas.
>
> Good.  I'm glad I wasn't way off in ignorance field with that one. I
> remember it had something to do (in part) with extensive use of horses
> in German arty units and concerns about shifting winds...
>
> > Greetings
> > Karl Heinz
>
> --Flak Magnet

The Germans were developing a wire-guided AT missile, the X7, which led
directly to the familiar 1st generation ATGWs such as the French SS10
and
the Soviet Shmyel etc.	I don't think it was at a usable stage though.

As for chemical and biological weapons, the Germas used toxic smoke
(presumably teargas? ISTR the lethality goes shooting up at high
concentrations) during bunker-clearing at Fort Stalin at Sevastopol in
the
Crimea.

The UK had large quantities of mustard gas prepared for attacks on
invasion
beaches had "Sealion" gone ahead- to be delivered by Lysanders in a
"crop-spraying" mode.

The UK had an anthrax weapon fully developed by the end of the war, but
this
was a strategic weapon aimed at destroying food animals rather than
directly
attacking people.

Rob Paul