T2K Fortification

[Southernap]

Originally Posted by dragoon500ly

Came across an interesting book titled "Fortress Europe, European Fortifications of World War Two" by J.E. Kaufmann and R.M. Jurga.

The book at Amazon

For those that want to add to their reference stash.

[Raellus]

Great resources, gents. Thanks for sharing.

Osprey Publishing's Fortress series has some interesting volumes that are germane to T2k. I can speak to a couple specific examples.

Fortress 11: Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights (1) AD provides a great overview of castles in Poland, many of which are located on the banks of the Vistula. I used it to build encounters for a Pirates of the Vistula PbP campaign, and to write the Rook's Gambit adventure module (link in my sig).

Special Forces Camps in Vietnam 1961–70 (Fortress) is a good resource for GMs wishing to include fortifications that one might expect to encounter around cantonments of around company to battalion size.

Other titles cover some of the fortifications previously mentioned by other posters in this thread.

[dragoon500ly]

Another excellent resource is "Fortress Third Reich" by J.E. Kaufmaan, H.W. Kaufmann & Robert M. Jurga

This work covers the post-Franco-Prussian War, the Great War, Second Reich and Reichswehr, the pre-war Wehrmacht, the WW2 Wehrmacht (including the coastal fortifications, air-raid defenses, Herr Schekengrubers Command and Control bunkers, info on the armored trains, the U-Boat Pens, der Atlantic Wall, the V-1 and V-2 sites and some very interesting appendices that included the armored parts of German fortifications; the concrete specifications, specifics from a German evaluation of the effects of bomb and heavy naval guns on the Atlantic Wall.

Should still be available on amazon!

[Raellus]

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-w...8a51975e09a4b7

"For now, that means assembling prefabricated materials into underground shelters using a Soviet-era design. They have already shipped 123 of the 2-meter (6 1/2-foot) -wide, 6-meter (20-foot) -long structures structures to areas that include eastern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk provinces. Each shelter requires nearly 2 tons of steel. The bunkers are built to withstand projectiles with calibers of up to 152 millimeters, can accommodate up to six soldiers and need to be buried 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) underground." (Emphasis added.)

Unfortunately, the article doesn't contain any useful images of said pre-fab bunkers. I'd love to see a schematic.

In the T2kU, I'd reckon the Soviets would have seeded scores, if not hundreds, of these bunkers across Poland during NATO's initial push east.

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[Vespers War]

Originally Posted by Raellus

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-w...8a51975e09a4b7

"For now, that means assembling prefabricated materials into underground shelters using a Soviet-era design. They have already shipped 123 of the 2-meter (6 1/2-foot) -wide, 6-meter (20-foot) -long structures structures to areas that include eastern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk provinces. Each shelter requires nearly 2 tons of steel. The bunkers are built to withstand projectiles with calibers of up to 152 millimeters, can accommodate up to six soldiers and need to be buried 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) underground." (Emphasis added.)

Unfortunately, the article doesn't contain any useful images of said pre-fab bunkers. I'd love to see a schematic.

In the T2kU, I'd reckon the Soviets would have seeded scores, if not hundreds, of these bunkers across Poland during NATO's initial push east.

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I haven't seen a schematic, but mil.in.ua has a series of images of one being installed.

Also an option would be the much smaller Russian hard points from this Twitter thread that were being transported in pairs on 6x6 trucks.

And in reference to the wooden blockhouse that Southernap posted a few years ago, there's at least one reconstructed one on the East Coast - Fort King George in Darien, Georgia was rebuilt in 1988. Its wooden walls are 4 inches thick

[Raellus]

Thanks for the links, VW.

This site has a ton of pics of Soviet 'Monolith' nuclear bunkers in Poland and the former East Germany. There's also map of other sites throughout Europe.

https://www.sightraider.com/soviet-m...-FNvqzztT5ToMA

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[Raellus]

This article is so nice, I had to post it twice (it's also in the Ukraine War thread).

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/UKR...E/mopakddwbpa/

It features maps, satellite images, diagrams, and sketches of Russian defenses in Ukraine.

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