Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "Battlestorm Stalingrad E8 - Chaos Eve" video.

  1. German halftracks had "wet" tracks, which required extensive greasing-a long and arduous/painstaking job. This increased basic maintenance time for the crews by a large amount. As Italian, French, and Japanese machine gunners knew, oil or grease on the battlefield rapidly becomes thick, binding, gunk. http://www.livesteammodels.co.uk/dhmg/tracks.html entry "C" explains wet pin tracks.
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  2. Here's the salient comment: "In the case of the Kettenkrad there is several thousand needle pins on a single vehicle, so you can imagine what the tracks on the Famo would be like."
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