bmbpdk Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Since all on this forum has a interest in tanks and tank battles, i thought i would do a heads up of the 70th anniversary of the Tank Battle at KurskThe battle was fought from 5. july to 23. august 1943, between Nazi Germany and Russia.The battle involved as many as 6,000 tanks, 4,000 aircraft and 2 million fighting men and is remembered as the greatest tank battle in history (Data taking from historynet.com).The battle was fierce and brutal, especially around Prokhorovka, sometimes the tanks ran out of ammo and simply rammed each other!its funny how the anniversary is close to the release date of SB 3! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enigma6584 Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 I've got several documentaries of this battle, not to mention books. I always thought it would be kind of neat to have a campaign put together for SBPE focussing around a modern day Kursk. Perhaps after the 3.0 upgrade? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rump Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Here's a Kursk map, by Manteuffel:http://www.steelbeasts.com/Downloads/p13_sectionid/253/p13_fileid/1921 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmbpdk Posted April 18, 2013 Author Share Posted April 18, 2013 imaging what kind of battle that would be in SB..m1a2, leo 2, challenger 2 versus t-72 and t-80´s, that would simply be EPIC!i have also seen several documentarys and read books about kursk, that battle and the ardennes (Wacht am Rhein campaign) is my favorite WWII battles.In modern time it is the 1973 "Yom Kippur" and the "six day battle" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 A pretty good CGI Documentary about Kursk.Well worth watching with commentary from Some veterans of the battleBoth sides.https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=M9iiCuocNqg 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmbpdk Posted April 18, 2013 Author Share Posted April 18, 2013 A pretty good CGI Documentary about Kursk.Well worth watching with commentary from Some veterans of the battleBoth sides.https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=M9iiCuocNqgthank you for linking 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eisenschwein Posted April 18, 2013 Share Posted April 18, 2013 Nice Tale... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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