1925frank Wrote:If other countries have engineers with 2 hard attack, then US and British engineers are six times better than other countries, and the German engineers are nine times betters than other countries.
Yes, this is what I see.
1925frank Wrote:The Germans had stormtroopers in WWI, and I'm wondering if the hard attack has something to do with that. It's apparently some skill or aspect in which the Germans excelled that only the British and Americans attempted to mimick with some success but not equal success.
You are on to something. Inter-war doctrines had the Germans building on it's storm troop concept. And, they thought they would be fighting against tanks with their infantry, so they developed those skills and tactics at a higher level then most.
But, engineers are not stormtroops. They are engineers.
1925frank Wrote:The soft attacks of infantry are usually 6 or 8 at one hex with the exception of the Germans, which I believe is 12. That's quite a disparity too, but I can see where weaponry could produce those discrepancies. Are there US or British infantry units with 12 soft attacks at one hex by the end of the war? Did the Germans have a superior number of light machineguns?
The standard German infantry unit was based around the support of the machine gun. The Americans and Brits used machine guns to support their rifles.
I think it is more a matter of tactics and use, not so much a bias on the part of the early developers.
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