Re: The GZG Digest V2 #1376

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>Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:27:30 -0500
>From: Allan Goodall <agoodall@hyperbear.com>
>Subject: Re: [SG2] [WW2] Quad .50 half-track
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>On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:39:51 -0400, kaladorn@magma.ca wrote:
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>>I like Allan's suggestion of treating infantry elements under fire 
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>>from ADA (air def arty) as if subject to terror. This just makes good 
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>>sense to me. 
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>Thank you!
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Actually the first terror throw should be made by the ADA. ADA is not 
part of the unit
it is defending but is attached to the unit To expect it to go to the 
front line and fire over the sites
at ground targets would make it the first target taken out. While this 
is going on who is doing
the ADA's mission of defending against air attacks? What has happened to

the organic
artillery (light , medium  and heavy mortars and Infantry Guns in the 
unit) and the dedicated
and on call artillery that is supposed to do this job?

The only exception to this is the 88 mm AA in the German army which 
required a direct order
 by Rommel (France 1940) in a desperate situation and then over time 
became a standard.
Even then the 88 mm AA was setup defensively and engaged it's target at 
long range (it was
a very large target compared to a towed AT gun).

Scott Siebold