>That moment when you were truly made worthy of your Roma

>>1475898

Pic is somewhat anachronistic. The main charge was launched at like 5 in the morning, in near total darkness, which was one of the main reasons the Italians were able to get close enough to be effective.

>>1475935
how did they do this. Like... why werent they all blown to smitherenes by Soviet artillery?

>>1475959

I haven't studied the battle in depth, but at an educated guess:

Soviet command and control was pretty bad, throughout pretty much all the war prior to 1944. They had great guns, they had some pretty good gunners, but actually getting their people to know where to shoot often had to be decided at the divisional HQ level.

So it's 5 in the morning, and something's going wrong, and whomever was in charge of the position was probably phoning HQ, saying he needed help, and them trying to get a set of coordinates as to where to direct the barrage, whcih you only have a guess at because the fighting is fluid and because it's in the pre-dawn and you can't see shit. So if the request for support is even approved, the gunfire is probably raining down all over the place and not where you actually need it.