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Title: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Newbie. on September 30, 2010, 04:43:35 PM
American 75mm Pack ftw?
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Post by: Seeme on October 01, 2010, 12:35:11 PM
They are had there ups and downs, its really hard to choose.
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Post by: maxi1991 on October 01, 2010, 05:41:13 PM
10.5cm LeFH
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Post by: GodlikeDennis on October 01, 2010, 05:51:13 PM
I don't know enough about actual WW2 arty to vote but ingame the calliope is the best, followed by the hummel then priest.
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: SublimeSnugz on October 01, 2010, 05:54:28 PM
105 howitser

light, mobile, great firepower.
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Post by: BurroDiablo on October 01, 2010, 07:10:12 PM
Soviet 122mm М-30
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Post by: Desert_Fox on October 01, 2010, 07:12:47 PM
105 howitser

light, mobile, great firepower.

Yes...everywhere in the American's WW2 teathres!
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Hawk_Silk on October 01, 2010, 07:19:25 PM
Don't know much about the capablities of artillery in World War II so I'm just going off what I do know.

Standing up for my nation, if the 17 pounder was one of the best anti-tank guns then I'd imagine the 25 pounder was one of the best artillery guns.

Regards Hawk (Silk)
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Gerrit 'Lord Rommel' G. on October 01, 2010, 07:56:40 PM
152 mm howitzer gun M1937 (ML-20):
Out of my view one of "the best" artillery guns.
A high calibre of 15cm. Heavy shells. Used as normal
artillery gun and as self propelled gun.
Think of the ISU 152.

German soldiers called this gun "schwarze Sau" ( "black sow" )
because the shells had a typical detonation sound and a typical detonation impact ( a 152mm shell coloured the ground in and around the impact black ).
Germans were so impressed by this gun that they formed artillery formations out of captured russian guns with calibre 152mm.
E.g. Panzer-Lehr-Division had ML-20 guns for division artillery batteries and not german guns.
Such a canon had to be the best when it was used at germanys best division!
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Sturmovik on October 01, 2010, 08:53:22 PM
Uff ... what for all those inquiry?
There is NO DATA in acquaint part.
There is no subdivision events ...
What artillery you are placing fo inquiry?
Divisionary, Corps artillery, Battalion artillery, special perpose units?

Thats is my chose ...

Corps gun:
A-19, 122mm gun 1931/37
Most used ammunition units sended fer than 18K meters.
Equivalent guns from other countries:
British 114-мм BL 4,5 inch
American 4,5 inch Gun M1
But only british have near Soviet gun technical data, with very few nambers build for very needed war years.

Gun for special perpose
280mm mortar 1939  (BR-5)
Near 10K meters far ammo can be shoot.
No analogue.
Only german few specimen for railroad platforms. Poor mobility, & no mass production.

Division gun
M30 122mm howitzer 1938
Very successfully prodused gun by General Grabin.
Most shells can be sended to 8K-12K meters.
No special copy for comparision. Therefore no other army prodused divicion gun more than 100-107mm caliber. More than 150mm is for special conversation.

Special comparision corner
D-1 Soviet Howitzer 1943
It's for special army order. The Key - mobility with heavy punch effect. It's "duplicate" of the gun-carriage unit with M-30 gun.
This howitzer in ton to give with characteristics to other nations specimens.
15cm heavy field howitzer s.F.H.18
155mm howitzer M1
149mm howitzer "Ansaldo"
They have a few more biger shoot distance, but with more sense of weight, & mor difficalt with mobility.
French 155mm Shneider howitzer 1917
Take the way to D-1 with weight & range.
12K meters long shoot.

(Any way, westarn fronts is no that extension, like eastern front. With identical condisions, Soviet howitzer is little more favorable, because of weight & mobility.)


That's all for now.

... fotos, almost forget.

D-1
(http://www.pointclub.ru/media/1/20080524-all_88.jpg)

BR-5
(http://pomnite-nas.ru/img/78/200706212311040.41b.jpg)

A-19
(http://flamber.ru/files/photos/1211922554/1232650101_f.jpg)

M30
(http://foto-avto.narod.ru/foto/12/12241.jpg)

Post Merge: September 29, 2010, 05:12:06 AM
To Lord Rommel
Yeas, ML gun-howitzer is especially weapon. One of the most successful artillery gun of the Kursk battle, that can easy penetrate new german tanks.
If i am not rong, field charge of that cannon can displace tank turret of all nazi tanks.
Ammunition fragments can take wounded large mass of the enemy soldiers & damage most of the enemy armor units.
Forvard placed transmission on most nazi tanks is most susceptibilities with characteristics of the gun ... fatal point of their construction for now.
Range - near 17K meters

(http://www.kursk1943.mil.ru/kursk/arch/photo/002.jpg)
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Spieel on October 02, 2010, 12:02:38 AM
@ Sturmovik: Why do insist on calling it Nazi tanks and weapons, why not just German?

On topic; I love the 105mm, but in game I would say the Priest(mainly because of the sound:p)
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Paciat on October 02, 2010, 03:09:13 AM
Sturmovik is right about the Soviet guns. Soviets had some of the best and modern guns in the world in 1941. People seem to forget about that.

But I love the the 25lbs A.K.A. "the British 88".
A Bridge Too Far - Artillery support (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCBHtf4hYWQ#)
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: GodlikeDennis on October 02, 2010, 05:36:40 AM
Historically, Russia has always had excellent artillery and cannon units. It probably stems from their wars with the Ottoman empire.
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Post by: Sturmovik on October 02, 2010, 12:35:51 PM
@ Sturmovik: Why do insist on calling it Nazi tanks and weapons, why not just German?

It's not principle, it's historical.
Now it is a german military.
During WW2 - Wermaht is the weapon of the Nazi Reich, tools of the agressive politics of the "new order".
War times fades the german people, ... war crimes of the nazi regime takes no alternative, than give name for all that acts - fascism, nazi ...
After may of 1945, Reich, & Nazional-Socialism is falling with last volleys of the war in Europe.
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Aouch on October 02, 2010, 03:54:04 PM
I vote for M1942 (SIS-3) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/76_mm_divisional_gun_M1942_(ZiS-3)) and M1937 (ML-20) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/152_mm_howitzer-gun_M1937_(ML-20)).

The SIS-3 was especially in the early time of the war a feared weapon for German soldiers, they called it "Ratsch-Bumm", for its characteristic sound caused by the supersonic velocity.

ML-20 because of what Lord Rommel told us.  ;)

@ Sturmovik:
Fascism isn't National-Socialism. In Soviet Union, maybe both were the same, but actually, they aren't. I would also recommend to use something other than this "Nazi-there and Nazi here"-stuff.  :)
Only a minority of German and Germany's Allies' soldiers were real "Nazis". It's the same like saying every people in Soviet Union was a Communist.
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Sturmovik on October 04, 2010, 03:22:54 PM
Yeas, this is thrue.
German - Nazi
French - Fascism
Italian - Visi
(sorry about possible writing errors)
... If i am right ...
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: GodlikeDennis on October 04, 2010, 04:08:54 PM
Not all Germans were Nazi, only those in the party. Not all Italians were fascist, only those in the party. Not all French were under the Vichy government either. So no, it's not true.
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Sturmovik on October 04, 2010, 04:19:30 PM
It's the politic-socialistic regime ... it's not the opinion.
Opinoin is - not all germans takes particularity with the nazi mesures & support the Nazi opinion.

One more point ... on the german nazi side on the Eastern front fights the italian, romanian, finland allies of the nazi & wermaht and others ... that's why soviet-russian soldiers and their progenys does not divide ... with nazi-fascism-visi ...

And yeas, i make an error ... Italians - fascists, French - vichi. I already understand.
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Blackbishop on October 04, 2010, 05:14:11 PM
Not all Germans were Nazi, only those in the party. Not all Italians were fascist, only those in the party. Not all French were under the Vichy government either. So no, it's not true.
Don't waste your time, you know what I mean.


Btw stay on topic guys.
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Seeme on October 04, 2010, 09:41:38 PM
Off-Topic: Hello

On-topic:

I wonder which is the worst arty on this list, they all sound good.
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Newbie. on October 04, 2010, 09:59:43 PM
French 155mm.

Nuff 'sed.
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: mawr on October 30, 2010, 11:12:49 PM
dora was the best
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Post by: Paciat on November 01, 2010, 08:42:11 PM
dora was the best
What was its rate of fire? ;D
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Blackbishop on November 01, 2010, 09:45:54 PM
dora was the best
What was its rate of fire? ;D
Was it common ::)?
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Seeme on November 03, 2010, 02:35:19 AM
Did it use a lot of stuff?
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Post by: Raider217 on November 03, 2010, 08:58:57 AM
How long did it take to deploy?
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Post by: Seeme on November 03, 2010, 11:39:30 AM
How Short was its name?
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Post by: Raider217 on November 07, 2010, 03:46:54 PM
Did it require special roads or rather tracks to go anywhere?
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Post by: cephalos on November 07, 2010, 06:37:46 PM
Did it... omfg, stop doing that!
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Post by: Seeme on November 07, 2010, 11:11:52 PM
Did it just make cephalos mad?
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Post by: mawr on December 26, 2010, 08:40:08 PM
dora was the best
What was its rate of fire? ;D

I know hehe :D but still damage was... XD
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Paciat on December 27, 2010, 06:07:30 AM
dora was the best
What was its rate of fire? ;D

I know hehe :D but still damage was... XD
And the muni cost even higer.

Topic locked?
Title: Re: Best COMMON Arty of WW2?
Post by: Blackbishop on December 27, 2010, 06:18:40 AM
Imo there's nothing else to add and this gone off-topic a while ago.