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Military History | World War Two
Facts, Tactics, Orders of Battle, etc

I've lumped all sorts of tidbits in here.

  • Anti-Tank Guns
  • Artillery Tactics
  • Human Mine Sweepers
  • Infantry Anti-tank Weapons
  • Infantry, Armoured
  • Infantry Formations
  • Infantry Unit Frontages
  • Motorcycle Troops
  • National Attributes
  • Russian 45mm Anti-tank Gun
  • Russian Lend Lease Valentines
  • Russian Naval Infantry
  • Russian SU76i
  • Tank Close Combat
  • Tank Firing Main Gun and Machine Guns
  • Tanks, Light
  • Tank Schürzen or Side Skirts
  • Tanks Reversing
  • Urban Combat
  • What Weapons When

WWII

  • Spain
    • 250th Blue Division
      • Timeline
      • Painting Guide
      • Order of Battle
      • Battle of Krasny Bor
      • Golpe de Mano
    • German Service
    • French Service
    • Soviet Service
    • British Service
    • American Service
    • Sources
  • New Zealand
    • Timeline
    • 2 NZ Division
      • River Sangro and Orsogna
      • Rimini Airfield
      • Order of Battle
      • Painting Guide
      • Vehicle Camouflage
    • Long Range Desert Group
    • Sources
  • French Expeditionary Corps
    • Order of Battle
    • 15mm Figures
    • Crossfire
    • Uniform Guide
    • Sources
  • Transjordanian Arab Legion
  • Battles & Campaigns
    • Arnhem
    • Krasny Bor
    • Meuse
    • Ponyri Station
      • Timeline
      • German Order of Battle
      • Sources
    • Soviet Far East
    • Stalingrad
      • Timeline
      • Order of Battle
      • Tactics
      • Geography
      • Sources
    • Tarnopol
  • Books and Memoirs
    • Bessonov - Tank Rider
    • Bidermann - In Deadly Combat
    • Braithwaite - Moscow 1941
    • Erickson - Road to Stalingrad
    • Hills - By Tank into Normandy
    • Moniushko - From Leningrad To Hungary
    • Medley - Five days to live
    • Swaab - Field of Fire
  • Tactics and Facts
    • Anti-Tank Guns
    • Artillery Tactics
    • Human Mine Sweepers
    • Infantry Anti-tank Weapons
    • Infantry, Armoured
    • Infantry Formations
    • Infantry Unit Frontages
    • Motorcycle Troops
    • National Attributes
    • Russian 45mm Anti-tank Gun
    • Russian Lend Lease Valentines
    • Russian Naval Infantry
    • Russian SU76i
    • Tank Close Combat
    • Tank Firing Main Gun and Machine Guns
    • Tanks, Light
    • Tank Schürzen or Side Skirts
    • Tanks Reversing
    • Urban Combat
    • What Weapons When
  • Painting Guides
    • Russian Infantry
    • Russian Naval Infantry
    • Spanish Blue Division / Early-Mid War Germans
    • German Tanks
    • Fallschirmjaeger
    • Kiwi / British Mediterranean
    • Kiwi Vehicle Camouflage in WW2

See Also

  • 1893-1926 Rif Wars
    • Timeline
      • First Rif War
      • Second Rif War
      • Third Rif War
    • Order of Battle
    • Painting Guide
    • 15mm Figures
      • Converting Ansar to Riffi
    • Wargaming Rules
    • Biographies
    • Geography
    • SOTCW
    • John Arnall
    • Sources
  • 1914-18 World War One (Portugal)
  • 1936-39 Spanish Civil War
    • Timeline: La Marcha / Drive on Madrid
    • Order of Battle
      • Weapons
    • Painting Guide
      • Nationalist (also Pre-War)
      • Moroccan
      • Paramilitary
      • Republican
    • Wargaming Figures
      • Peter Pig
      • Which figures to use for what
      • The Late Queen
      • Regulares with Fez
      • Vehicles
    • Wargaming Rules
    • Ebro Offensive
    • Sources
  • 1956-76 Spanish Sahara
    • Timeline
    • Order of Battle
    • Sources
  • 1961-74 Portuguese Colonial War
    • Timeline
    • Protagonists
    • Geography
    • Way of War
    • Order of Battle
      • Portuguese
      • PAIGC
      • FRELIMO
      • UPA / FNLA
      • MPLA
      • UNITA
    • Painting Guide
    • 15mm Figures
    • Rules
    • Steven's Portuguese
    • Steven's Insurgents
    • Animal Blinds
    • Unit IDs
    • Siege of Guidaje
    • Sources

Tactical Rules

  • Crossfire
    • House Rules
      • Types of Terrain Feature
      • Basing
      • Unit Identification
      • Markers: Objective, Status, Hidden
      • Data Sheets (PDF)
    • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
    • Scenarios
      • Guidelines
        • General Guidelines
        • River Crossings
        • Advanced Squad Leader (ASL)
        • AK47
        • I Ain't Been Shot Mum (IABSM)
        • Rapid Fire
      • For Novices
      • 2 Foot City
        • Scenario
        • Battle Report
      • 2 companies a side
      • 2-3 companies a side
      • The 'Old Chapel'
      • Battle of Sitno
      • Posición Navarro / Volkhov Bridgehead
        • Scenario
        • Battle Report
      • 3rd Battle of Kharkov
        • Scenario
        • Battle Report
      • 92nd Naval "The Sea Devils"
        • Scenario
        • Battle Report
      • Armour Fest
        • Scenario
        • Battle Report
      • Defence in Depth
      • Kodorov
        • Scenario
        • BattleReport
      • Mekensievy-Gory - Sharp shooting PAKs
        • Scenario
        • Battle Report
      • Road to Kamenets-Podosk
      • Russian Scouts
      • Sewers of Budapest
      • SU-76 "Colombina" in action
      • SU-76i in 1902nd SAP
      • Tarnopol: Russian Recce
        • Scenario
        • Battle Report
      • Tarnopol: Push to the City
      • Tarnopol: SU-152s up close and personal
        • Scenario
        • Battle Report
      • Tarnopol: Battle Group Friebe
        • Scenario
        • Battle Report
      • Tarnopol: Breakout
      • The Storch
      • Zerstorer
      • Assault on Tobruk
      • Astrang Crossings
      • Normandy, Jun 1944 Campaign
      • Operation 'Greif' - The Battle for Malmedy
        • Scenario
        • Battle Report
      • Ranville and Orne River Bridge
      • St Aubin-sur-Mer
      • Campaigns and Multiplayer
        • No-mans land Campaign
        • "Race for ... X" Campaign
        • Normandy, Jun 1944, Campaign
        • Kursk 3 Round Campaign
        • Tarnopol
          • 3 Round Campaign
          • Russian Recce
            • Scenario
            • Battle Report
          • Push to the City
          • SU-152s up close and personal
            • Scenario
            • Battle Report
          • Battle Group Friebe
            • Scenario
            • Battle Report
          • Breakout
          • Matrix Campaign
        • Pocket Multiplayer
        • Krasny Bor / "Black Wednesday" Multiplayer
          • Phase 1
          • Phase 2
        • Ponyri Station and Hill 253.5 Multiplayer
          • Map of Ponyri
        • Rhine Crossing Multiplayer
          • Operation Widgeon
          • Scots Plunder
          • Rhine Crossing ala Rapid Fire
          • Operation "Link Up"
        • Crossfire Umpire Ploys
        • World Crossfire Day (Campaign) Game 8
      • Hit the Dirt
        • Battle Report: Reconnaissance Before Pontecorvo
      • Various Ideas
    • Variants
      • Tupara: New Zealand Wars Variant
      • Fuego Cruzado: Variant for Spain's Wars
        • House Rules
        • Order of Battle
          • Generic
          • Nationalist
          • Paramilitary
          • Republication
        • Scenarios
          • 45 Pesetas
          • Andalusian Motorcade
            • Battle Report
          • Counter-Attack on Mérida
          • Tank attack at Seseña
          • University City 1: Hall of Philosophy and Letters
        • Steven's 2nd Tabor of Regulares of Tetuán
      • Fogo Cruzado: Portuguese Colonial War Variant
      • Arab-Israeli Variant
        • Datasheets
        • 1948-49 Scenarios
    • Steven's Units / Galleries
      • Spanish/German Grenadier Battalion
      • Russian Rifle Battalion
      • Russian Naval Infantry Battalion
      • 2nd Tabor of Regulares of Tetuán
      • Ian Galley's Gallery
      • Shed Gallery
    • Order of Battle
      • RB Oct 1941 - Jun 1942
      • RD Apr - Jun 1941
      • RD Jul - Sep 1941
      • RD Oct - Nov 1941
      • RD Dec 1941 - Feb 1942
    • Map Making (CC2 Pro)
    • Musings
      • Ground Scale
      • Time & Clocks
      • Basing
      • Points System
      • Unit IDs
      • Command Control
        • Campaign rules and group morale
        • Company Sized Group Moves
        • Fighting the 1000 Foot General
        • Hidden Deployment
        • Hidden Movement ("Ghosts")
        • Morale and Training
        • Multi-Player
        • Night Fighting
        • Political Cooperation
        • Stand Width
      • Troop Types
        • Airborne Troops
        • Aircraft
        • Anti-tank guns
        • Armoured Infantry
        • Assault Rifles
        • Cavalry
        • Commissars
        • Morale and Training
        • Platoon Commanders (PC) for Machine guns
        • Snipers
        • Soft Skinned Vehicles
        • Waterborne Troops
      • Vehicles
        • 2d6 Armour Rules
        • Armoured Infantry
        • Anti-tank guns
        • Gun versus Arm Matrix
        • HMG versus Armour
        • Random Tanks
        • Rolling for Vehicles actions
        • Soft Skinned Vehicles
        • Unlimited actions for Vehicles
        • Vehicle mounted Flame Throwers
      • Shooting
        • Ammunition Supply
        • Bazookas versus Structures
        • Boring Fire Fights
        • Close Support Infantry Guns
        • Direct Fire Mortars
        • Gun versus Arm Matrix
        • HMG versus Armour
        • No Fire
        • Platoon Commanders (PC) for Machine guns
        • Platoon Line of Fire
        • Ranges
        • Shelling in Woods and Wood Splinters
        • Stand Width
        • Vehicle mounted Flame Throwers
        • Visibility with Different Terrain and Troop Profiles
      • Terrain
        • Bocage, Hedges and Walls
        • Crossing Rivers
        • Minefields
        • Open Terrain
        • Sewers
        • Trench Warfare
        • Western Desert
      • Converting from other Game Systems
        • Advanced Squad Leader (ASL)
        • AK47
        • I Ain't Been Shot Mum (IABSM)
        • Rapid Fire
      • Rules Ian Hayward Missed
      • Daniele Varelli's House Rules
      • Korean War
      • Science Fiction Variant
      • v2 wish list
    • Sources
  • Megablitz
    • Clarifications
    • 2 New Zealand (NZ) Division
    • Blue Division Order of Battle
    • Scenario: A Dot in Russia
    • Quick Reference Sheet (PDF)
    • Combat Matrix (PDF)
  • Offensive - A Multiplayer Operational Game

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