Comments on: Armored Tactics during Citadel

By: T. Beholder

T. Beholder — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 23:41:17 +0000

If you are interested in the Red Army’s usage of mines, read the autobiography of Ilya Starinov, who’s rather [in]famous in some circles as «arguably the most important person in the history of IEDs», per standingwellback.com. He had formidable accomplishments to boast about. He was promoting a different anti-tank mine tactic: visible minefield, with decoys >> anti-tank mines >> booby traps.

By: Isegoria

Isegoria — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:52:44 +0000

I definitely remember the constant technical (and tactical) arms races in the Lensman series. Since the main stories were written in the late 1930s and early 1940s, Smith had plenty of real-life arms races to look to for inspiration — and the blitzkrieg was just starting to demonstrate what armor and air power could do on land.

By: Buckethead

Buckethead — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:07:26 +0000

Odd, but the second quote reminded me of nothing more than EE Smith’s Lensmen series. In the latter books, as battles between the Galactic Patrol and Boskone heated up there weren’t just new weapons, but Smith varied the tactics as well: cones, spheres, cylinders with different arrangements of heavy and light craft.

Sounds like Mellinthin is relating a real-life, two-dimensional version of the battles in the Lensmen series.