What about building objects?

[Sannex]

Hello folks,

I am a great fan of this game and i also played faces of war and HoWWII.

The Game is great but it would be cool if u can build objects like Towers, sandbacks, fences or Walls. Also other bulidings which may produce units.

I know this will change the charakter of the game but may in further games the developing Team will think about that. Is there still a mod that make it possible to build objects?

I really looking forward to the release of assault Squad cause it might be a step in the direction I am wanted to see

[KnightFandragon]

There is no base building in this game and as far as I know no way to make a building produce anything except protection from an incoming 150mm Shell ready to reduce your infantry's rumpus into a gooey, bloody mass of mush.

There are Sandbags and Tank Traps and Barbed Wire in the game but only online and given only to certain units. if you want them in the Singleplayer Campaigns then just edit them in the mission or the troops invnetory

[Sannex]

Thx 4 the quick answear! Ur right :/

But it would be cool to build sandbags and wire and maybe small buildings like a tower or little bunkers or to dig out some trenches! Ofc in Singleplayer!

[KnightFandragon]

If you know how to edit the SP missions in the GEM Editor you can add Sandbags, Tank Traps and Barbed Wire to your troops Inventory. Also using the editor you can add in bunkers and towers to the map to hide in, they do a wicked awesome job of protecting troops from MG and Rifle Fire. ive messed in the editor and put like 5 guys with M249s and G3s in some Atlantic Wall Towers and they held off like 100 guys at once, no joke. Mean while the guys I had just sitting behind low walls died in like 6 secodns flat against the same # of troops. The GEM Editor is like more fun then ive had ever in a game haha. Ive even screwed around enough and had my tank hiding behind a wall of sandbags higher then the tank with only a slit for its gun. Sadly it didnt give me the efect I was going for but ti was fun anyway.

[Nikitns]

no base-building. at all. only field fortifications.

[Crni vuk]

I always thought it might be interesting to give troops the option to dig trenches or at least foxholes which provided some cover for the infantry against grenades and artillery shells (if they dont hit the hole directly).

Something the USSR also had was the BTM-3 which was a trench digging machine.



BTM-3 High Speed Ditching Machine Walk Around Page

Now I have no clue how many of them have been really used or if they even saw any service in WW2. But I think I saw photos of such similar vehicles on the british side in WW2. The Brits usualy always fortified their positions after they conquered some area as the Germans would regularly counter attack as soon as possible trying to capture the area even if there was no chance at all to really achieve it.

It could be also interesting if engineers or machineguners could create some small position for their weapon so its not that easy to take them out with grenades and enemy fire. Of course thouse would give not much protection against heavy artillery and tank guns.



Also digging anti tank trenches eventualy to give anti tank guns more camouflage and protection might be a good thing as well since I think anti tank guns are somewhat to easily defeated in MP if you consider that Carious a famous Tiger 1 tank commander had much more fear from those anti tank guns and to some degree tank hunters then anything else, since as how he explained it once, they would tend to fire 2 or even 3 times at you before you spoted them even and when ever you destroyed one it would be replaced in a blink. Of course to entrench a gun would take some time but it was usualy always done if the troops had the time, expected some enemy attack soon or simply prepared for a defencive position. Particiularly the Soviets have been masters of using camouflage with the anti tank guns, placing and preparing them at night in already by the Germans cleared villages inside of buildings together with infantry and suddenly firing at the unaware troops and vehicles.


Caption Camouflaged German 7.5 cm PaK 40 anti-tank gun position, North Africa, 1941

World War II database