4.13 development update discussion and feedback

[dimlee]

Originally Posted by Pursuivant

Armored trains were relatively rare units, and were mostly useful for defending strategic points along rail lines, and for anti-partisan ops (to defend against saboteurs attempting to destroy rail lines). There were used by Germany and the USSR on the Eastern Front and by Japan in China.

As air power got better, armored trains became less effective both because they could more easily be destroyed by air, and because larger bombs could easily destroy railroad tracks.

Once "locomotive busting" ops got really well developed in the later war years, locomotives and rolling stock had to be well camouflaged and/or hidden in tunnels or deep culverts to hide them from view.

There was one lucky armored train during seige of Sevastopol in 1941-1942.
It has survived from Nov 1941 until the days of the 3rd (and final) German sturm in June 1942. 100mm marine guns, 7.62mm and 12.7 mm machine guns, mortars. Two engines, workshop and team of repairmen. Camouflage adapted to season and terrain. Local landscape and tunnels (there are 5 of them near the city) allowed the train to escape and hide after raids.
It has been damaged and blocked inside of rail tunnel after another Luftwaffe attack. Germans has restored and requipped the train and used it until May 1944.

Wiki (Russian):
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96...D0%B7%D0%B4%29

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by dimlee

My favourite one.

Yep. That's the one.

There's a lovely documentary on 303 squadron here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptijNcDanVw

Over time, the "bloody foreigners" in the RAF learned more English, if only to help them buy beer and meet English women, but I'm sure that the temptation to revert to native language in emergencies must have been huge.

For the RAAF, things might have been a bit different, since some of the RAAF (NEI) squadrons only had Dutch pilots, but Australian gunners and ground crew! I'd think that there's much more incentive to learn the language if you need to make yourself understood to your crew and mechanics. (That, and the Dutch seem to have a genius for learning other people's languages. ).

Getting historical voice packs for the RAF and RAAF foreign squadrons would be a real challenge, and I'm not sure IL2 is up to it.

You'd need to add South African, Canadian, Rhodesian, and even Caribbean-accented English to the existing UK, Australian and New Zealand voice packs to represent all the Commonwealth nations, plus Accented/Bad English packs with American, Czech, Dutch, French, Greek, Irish, Norwegian, and Polish accents to represent foreigners who flew with the RAF!

[felix_the_fat]

Dear Sita & Team
just seen your post of March 7th: "Few shots new ground units from 4.13.1 update"
what beautiful & wondrous vehicles you are producing!!
congratulations for all your past & future work - and may there be more of the latter!!
yours, f_t_f

[Sita]

Thanks for your Kind word Sir))

[batistadk]

Hello TD.

What a great job with the latest ground units. Some of them were very outdated, as the BT and KV tanks; as well as new variants, that are always welcome. About the trains, just one word: marvelous.

And as a source, in case you don't know it, try this website: www.o5m6.de Lots of Soviet and Lend-Lease vehicles profiles, including AFVs, trucks, ships and, of course trains. Hope it helps.

Keep up the good job. Best regards,

batistadk

[Sita]

itteresting page) Thanks)

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by batistadk

What a great job with the latest ground units. Some of them were very outdated, as the BT and KV tanks

Not so outdated for Spanish Civil War, Sino-Japanese War/Nohomon, Winter War, and early war scenarios.

Originally Posted by batistadk

And as a source, in case you don't know it, try this website: www.o5m6.de

This is an excellent site. In particular, it's good for "soft" vehicles, like Artillery Tractors (hint, hint!)

http://www.o5m6.de/RussianTractors.html

http://www.o5m6.de/stz-5.html

Its sister site, for the Germans and Italians (a few Western allied vehicles) is also excellent:

http://www.german.o5m6.de/

[batistadk]

I mean, outdated in-game models. I hope we get some axis vehicles treat too.

[stugumby]

Towed artillery, is it possible to include these as either static or moving vehicles?

[Music]

stugumby said
Towed artillery, is it possible to include these as either static or moving vehicles?


...what ever happened to the towed and manable AAA. Am I missing it? Thought there was a American 4x (somecaliber) that we were able to "fly"