Khm-Khm.
OGPU officer Avtomat is reactivating himself to serve the Soviet Motherland against counter-revolutionary actions!
I see Stiltzkin, you claim to
"despise all Nazi apologists and Soviet fanboys who have a childs understanding of historical/technical/scientific/political complexity." yet you come up with statements like the PPSh is in fact just a copy of the KP31 (the only thing that could be considered a copy on the PPSh is the 71 round drum, which was carried over from the PPD)
You also claim the weapon is inaccurate, which pretty much goes against the laws of physics, and what is written about it in it's actual operator's manual.
(oh, I bet you totally have a copy of said manual and didn't base your claims on the stereotypical view painted of the Soviets as an asiaistic horde of men with guns by every German memoir ever, which TOTALLY did not serve the purpose of downplaying their skill in military affairs in the West during the cold war to ridicule them)
A person of such caliber as yourself who knows about such amazing things as the central military archives (lol) or Journal of Slavic military studies (~maybe you should read/listen to a bit more of stuff from D. M. Glanzt?~) and is CLEARLY
in posession of a history degree, should know the basics of logical argumentation, which you threw out the window in your very first lines. (ad hominem)
Now I have to agree with you on the state of modern WWII war gaming, especially on WT, but saying that everything is overpowered on the russian side of IOM, because the soviets can win battles in a game is, well, let's say
idiotic.
Just because something doesn't exactly fit your preception of Ostfront combat, it isn't necessarily inaccurate.
The numbers game is my favorite thing to bodyslam in arguments like these.
Now pay very careful attention:
The Germans achieved those results because of superior small unit tactics and Operational level exploits at the right places at the right time. (and the oh ever so present false reporting of casualties, which was obviously happening on every side of the war, but the germans took it to a higher level -I'm looking at you, Hartmann-) Not because they were so incredibly technologically superior to the Soviets. (And no, I'm not saying the casualties of operations like Barbarossa, Mars or Uranus are completely fasle.)
Look at the weapons composition of a standard squad of the Heer and the RKKA and you shall see the difference in automatic weapons capacity.
If you want to win in a WW2 game like the germans won small engagements, well you should act the part. Yes, this is difficult to do in games. Tough luck. Training wins battles- not equipment.
Back to RL:
Just look at the changes post Kursk when the Soviets got their Operational game going fine. Bagration and the defensive operation/counterattack against german armored forces around Lake Balaton in early '45 is especially worthy of a check. And before you mention, yes I'm aware of Operation Konrad I-III.
But hell, you should know this already.
So to sum up; Don't try to insult others for "political/ military bias", when you posess the very same qualities except in the other way around. Hypocrisy is not cool.
(Inb4 based on my sig and avatar I'm actually Stalin/R