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02:59:48 Devastator: Reading a good book, atm.
02:59:57 Devastator: "Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks."
03:00:38 Devastator: Pros: Really quiet, mechanically rugged, excellent build quality.
03:01:00 Devastator: oh, and good performance in mud.
03:01:43 Devastator: Cons: High centre of gravity, Rubber tracks not good on ice, adequate but not exceptional gun.
03:03:11 Devastator: Also, the factory workers packed whisky bottles inside the tanks, but the first couple tries had them stolen between the ship and the front line. (i.e., someone else found them. The problem was solved when they started packing them inside the main cannon, between the breech and muzzle barrel plugs.)
03:09:08 Devastator: Whew, that's pretty robust. In Romania, they ran out of fuel when a surrounded german unit broke out and scattered a bunch of logistic units behind them, and the engines had to run on one part gas, two parts kerosene.
03:09:28 Devastator: They captured some stocks, but no diesel.
03:13:15 Devastator: Oops, that's another breakdown. Seven days running over dead dry terrain in August lead to the rubber road wheels cracking off.
03:13:38 Devastator: ..although, to be fair, T-34s generally had different issues on that time scale.
03:17:28 Devastator: Hmm, two stories about shells going straight down gun barrels. One where a tanker takes two days careful aiming to put one down the pipe of a Tiger, blowing the gun up, and one where a 20mm shell from an aircraft cannon goes straight down an elevated sherman barrel and hits the company commander in the back.
03:18:52 Devastator: Breech was open in the second case, and it took them over a day to figure out how the commander got killed, since the way he got hit meant it didn't come down the hatch above him.
03:20:07 Devastator: Also, the guy didn't die immediately from a direct hit by an exploding 20mm shell, which is a longer survival time than I expected.
03:20:46 ER: humans have way too much HP
03:21:03 Devastator: Well, he died about a half hour later, so it didn't just barely kill him.
03:46:52 Devastator: Oh well, hope there's a town after this. I want to spend the next month or so before this happens again learning about the creature and gathering enough mana to decide a confrontation.
03:47:37 ER: whine some more, you get time where you're not under threat sometimes
03:50:09 Devastator: You're right, though.
03:52:14 Devastator: You've had it rough.
03:52:17 Devastator: go beat up these guys.
03:54:32 Devastator: and make with the kaboom.
03:54:42 Devastator: or use reverse lightweight to gravity-slam dudes.
03:55:29 Devastator: Shame you're indoors. Temp lightweight might make someone float away like a helium baloon, only to fall back to earth and splash.
03:57:32 Devastator: Hmm, that's interesting.
03:57:36 Devastator: the booze ration wasn't vodka.
03:58:58 Devastator: 300grams, and one ration every day you had a night movement.
03:59:10 Devastator: Tank commanders and drivers got two.
03:59:33 ER: need to keep the drivers happy
03:59:40 Devastator: Well, they had to watch.
03:59:56 Devastator: A lot of the guys were tank infantry, who mostly rode.
03:59:56 ER: lest they tokyo drift over their allies
04:00:53 Devastator: "desantniki" is the word apparently.
04:01:53 Devastator: Google translate calls them paratroopers, but that doesn't seem correct.
04:03:43 Devastator: They're not airborne or airmobile, nor are they attached. They seem integral to the unit.. the infantry that rides on and accompanies tanks.
04:07:22 Devastator: Heh, apparently the night movements during winter lead to three tank turrets being temporarily disabled due to piss dripping into the turret rings and freezing.
04:07:37 Devastator: they couldn't stop, after all, and drunk people don't aim well.
04:10:05 Devastator: also, the tank commander during these movements rode outside the tank too.
04:10:32 ER: all the better to pose heroically, of course
04:10:44 ER: I hope they were issued swords
04:11:45 Devastator: I don't know, actually. Presumably submachine guns, as Soviets had crap pistols.
04:15:09 Devastator: Hehe, next battle he has one tank in his unit with an over-duration engine. It can't get replaced because there was a minor screwup in the tank serial numbers.. it's now a 'supernumary' tank, and won't get replaced.
04:15:30 Devastator: After that happened, it was ignored because it was assumed that at some point it would get knocked out.
04:16:06 Devastator: 24 months later, it's got engine breakdowns due to being too old, which slows his unit up multiple times. Eventually he gives the order to make sure the tank gets knocked out in the next battle.
04:16:18 Devastator: Guess what happens.
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12:27:28 Devastator: Ahh, the full name appends a 'tanko' to desantniki.
12:27:33 Devastator: so 'Tank Paratroopers.'
12:33:29 Devastator: Translator explains it at the end.
12:33:40 Devastator: 'desantniki' just means 'by special delivery'
12:34:00 Devastator: and usually 'by descent' or by parachute, but it also applies to marines.
12:38:08 Devastator: Huh, apparently if you got assigned to foreign gear, that is lend-lease equipment, you would spend the rest of the war fighting only in units equipped suchly.
12:39:10 Devastator: I though it was because he spends the duration of the memoraire with one batallation.
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