Abrigon Gusiq wrote:
M1 is grand is you have the logisical chain to support it, but I wonder how
things would go if it was WW2 all over and the Japanese was raping the country
side as they pushed the allies into the sea.. They Japs moved fast and did
well, cause they did not have a logisitcal chain to tie them down, but once
they took over, they did not get one going and it pissed the locals off, and
the Japanese Navy and Merchant Machine could not keep up.
The Japanese success in the Far East was as much about bad tactics and
hubris on the part of the western powers as anything. The Japanese
weren't supermen and a banzai charge will still fail against a properly
dug in regiment of Marines.
An IED can take out an M1, yes?
And it will probably blow the leg off a mech, too.
Maybe an idea is to take wars in the past, and see how a M1 would have done there?
Vietnam?
WW2 - European or Asian/Pacific?
We won in Iraq both times, cause counter to the US news, the enemies armor was prestige, export versions and often badly used by their command.. Yes the M1 did well when they faced any real resistance but..
We faced plenty of skilled resistance. It wasn't that they were that
bad it was that we, and our hardware, was that good.
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