View Poll Results: Panther vs T-34, Duel series by Osprey, have you picked it up yet?

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Thread: Panther vs T-34 by Robert Forczyk, Osprey Duel series

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    Question Panther vs T-34 by Robert Forczyk, Osprey Duel series

    Has anyone else picked this one up besides me? I like this new Duel series they put out, an interesting read, and somewhat different than their regular books they put out.

    If anyone is interested in this, I'll run some of the chapter ideas by on the thread here.

    Cheers, my first poll.

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    Re: Panther vs T-34 by Robert Forczyk, Osprey Duel series

    Quote Originally Posted by TRDG View Post
    Has anyone else picked this one up besides me? I like this new Duel series they put out, an interesting read, and somewhat different than their regular books they put out.

    If anyone is interested in this, I'll run some of the chapter ideas by on the thread here.

    Cheers, my first poll.

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    Re: Panther vs T-34 by Robert Forczyk, Osprey Duel series

    I agree. I'd like to hear more.
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    Thumbs up Re: Panther vs T-34 by Robert Forczyk, Osprey Duel series

    Thanks!!

    I'll get cracking as soon as time (work) allows....

    Cheers

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    Re: Panther vs T-34 by Robert Forczyk, Osprey Duel series

    This is the first duel title I bought. I thought it was an interesting compare and contrast type work. I would have liked to have seen it a few pages longer with more text and a little less art work. A good though not great work.
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    Thumbs up Re: Panther vs T-34 by Robert Forczyk, Osprey Duel series

    Thanks Dallas

    I will hammer out some thoughts Tuesday/wednesday, my many games and work is killling my free time!!

    Cheers, now when do I get my vaca again???

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    Post Re: Panther vs T-34 by Robert Forczyk, Osprey Duel series

    And here we go.....

    This book has many areas covered, but specifically it's about the Panther and T-34 in 1943 in the Ukraine, going from Kursk until the end of 1943 in the battles just West of Kiev in December.

    The intro does seem fairly standard, but has some interesting points as well. One of them is the idea that in the past, many ideas about these two machines are just to simplistic. With no critical eye on the reports and facts of their actual combat, just more of a mass of (inferior)T-34s against a lot fewer, but "better" Panther tanks, the good old quantity over quality theme we all know so well. The writer does'nt really get away from this either, but he has a different take on this, than others from the past.

    I will leave this intro with this from the book

    ....quality vs quantity argument tends to overlook the fact that any technical edge in warfare tends to be short lived and that the cost....often means surrendering the production front to the enemy.

    Nothing I hav'nt thought or read in other places at one time or another before, but it is very nice to see that in print from someone else from an Osprey book.

    Cheers, til' the next post on this, any thoughts or questions yet?

    Tom

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    Re: Panther vs T-34 by Robert Forczyk, Osprey Duel series

    The author is correct, a technical advantage can be overcome, many ways. Even the event of the T34 & KV's on the battlefield saw many reactions to counter them, in case in point the Panther after some time. However before that other means were used to overcome them, none easy no doubt but countermeasures to be sure.
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    Thumbs up Re: Panther vs T-34 by Robert Forczyk, Osprey Duel series

    Thanks Bob, like getting those 88's front and center for a T-34 tankovy assault, artillery direct fire, German forces directing their fire on the tracks of "the Beasts", as well as targeting gun barrels of K.V.'s in a couple of books as well, and actually hitting them and putting the tanks out of action that way, the Rusky tanks had a gun, but with holes in it, they could'nt fire!! Or if they attemted to, the round blew up in the barrel, could'nt get out of the gun barrel........ but that's another book!!

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    Post Re: Panther vs T-34 by Robert Forczyk, Osprey Duel series

    To continue

    The design and development part of the book on the Panther D had the basics as well, nothing shocking in what I read from the past. In the end of the Panther chapter, the writer points out that....

    If ever there was an example that "haste makes waste" in warefare, it lies in the Panther development program.
    It goes on to say that the Panther was'nt given enough proper testing for various reasons, from "it might have failed and embarressed the Armaments Ministry" to "Guderian knew the Panther was a loser, but he was silenced by Saur."

    The Panther, in the writers opinion had some good features, like the gun and sloped armour, but fell far short of the tank that Guderian requested initially.
    The abandonment of the deisel tank engine in a time of the German fuel crisis/shortage that was only growing at the time is another negative impact for him.
    I'll leave this section of the book with this, the final word from him in the chapter.

    The need for the Panther tank developed because of battlefield realities discovered in 1941, but German developers erred grievously by building a tank that essentially ignored these realities.

    Somewhat harsh, but it tends to bring some topics that tend to ring true to me, from what I know of the Panther. My question to the writer of the book is this. What would have happened if the Germans did not have any Panthers during WW II? But that is a more of an "what if" topic then, something to be explored maybe later on that forum!!

    Cheers

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