Guys, can someone explain to me how did land warfare work in

>>1799691
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank#History

>>1799691

So what you're basically asking is "how does war work?"

And the answer to that is:

>Kill more of the enemy soldiers per day then the enemy is killing your soldiers per day.

>>1799691
>What was their primary objective?
For tanks, break through defensive lines and destroy any enemy vehicles.

>>1799703
No, not really, I just can't understand how did large battles work out in WWII.

>>1799691
Anything with a motor was used in large pincer movements to prank the russians

>>1799735
You'd be better off working from a narrower range and expanding from there. Large battles changed significantly in the war from the outset to the end, and depending on the theater and the army involved.

>>1799703
lol are you serious
fucking cod kiddies

>>1799691
Encirclement

>>1799703
then by that logic Germany won WW2?

>>1799703
More like "kill enough of the other guys to win". Otherwise the Axis would have won WW2 and America would have won Vietnam.

>>1799938
be careful you triggered overly patriotic muricans

the general idea is that you used your tanks and close air support to push a weak point on the enemy line which then leads you to rapidly capture objectives to cut off and crush the rest of the line.

>>1799691
IFVs didn't exist at the time.

>>1799703
North. The point isn't to murder more efficiently than the opposition. It's to achieve various objechives which make it harder for the enemy to operate until they cannot operate efficiently enough to continue fighting.

>>1799703
this nigga

>>1799703

You don't know how war works so please stfu.

>>1799923
>Best K:D ratio by far in both Wars but still lost.

Really makes you think

>>1800375
Well, they were fighting against the rest of the world and their allies were useless.
The fact that they managed to hold their own for 4 years is pretty impressive.

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youtube.com/watch?v=rk-T-iNSdaw

This channel can explain alot better than I can. This video is a good breakdown on what a Panzer division consisted of and then you can branch out from there. It's a young channel and he hasn't got a breakdown on Blitzkrieg in itself right now which would be handy but you can read about that from it's modern Americafriendly name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_awe

He also has videos on the other nations who used tanks very differently.

On a smaller scale here's a nice one courtesy of Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster's facebook today: youtube.com/watch?v=D_Ns24Xhv6M

and a handy one for Word of Tanks fans: youtube.com/watch?v=iMTjcU-kmNM

If you want some really very in depth videos on the subject of armoured warfare. The World of Tanks channel is actually second to none. You have to wade through all the game shite ofcourse but there's loads of really anal history videos and even long lectures. The Tank Museum also will cover lots of learning for you.

>>1799703
Which BF servers do you play in?

>>1799703
Take and hold land. Crush your enemies will to fight. Take his resources.

>>1799691
The objective was to basically quickly secure strategic points and population centres to force enemy to surrender and defeat any forces they came across . Iraq War also worked like that.

If you mean battles it was simply destroying or incapacitating enemy mobile forces with your own mobile forces and artillery with help from airplanes, so securing air superiority was extremely important.

>>1799703
Nope. The real secret is outproducing your enemy REALLY HARD.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_World_War_II

>>1800403
Generally asking, how did your enemy track territory they lost and where their men were prior to radio?

>>1800413
Yea but if that was the sole parameter why would anyone do any fighting.

>>1800415
There were people tasked with specially relying information and light cavalry often scouted for enemy forces and advancement.

Get into an easy to defend position. Russian rush you. Repel & counter their shit. Get encircled. Break through. Rinse and repeat.

>>1800458
>Rinse and repeat.
More like keep losing ground until Russian forces are in Berlin.

>>1799703
t. Thinks the Germans took Stalingrad.

>1799703
>And the answer to that is:
>Kill more of the enemy soldiers per day then the enemy is killing your soldiers per day.
How can you fail at simple basic explanation?

>>1799691
most major powers had different ways of approaching battles during world war II

The German's most effective method included warfare in 3 stages. First was aerial bombardment using coordinated bomber groups to soften enemy positions and dislodge them from entrenched positions, second was to spearhead through these softened positions with tanks and armoured vehicles, and then lastly for the infantry divisions to come in behind the mechanized corps and clean up any remaining resistance.

The Soviets, however, placed much more emphasis on Artillery than aerial bombardment, using a barrage of artillery and katyusha rockets to soften defensive enemy positions, and then next to advance the mechanized corps, air forces, and infantry corps together, all supporting each other in the advance with aerial fighters keeping the skies clear of bombers.

at the end of the day through, tactics and strategy in battle didn't mean shit if you didn't have the resources to carry out such operations, the Allies vastly outproduced the Germans to the point where Germany could no longer stage effective offensives. This was seen with Germany operations getting more and more limited in scope as resources dwindled, from Barbarossa being a full invasion of the Soviet Union, the next year's Case Blue a limited drive to the Caucasus region, then Operation Citadel being focused on just the encirclement of one salient.