4.13 development update discussion and feedback

[swede94]

My goodness, after seeing the train videos I am very happy!

Being a bit of a railway nut, seeing that the coupling rods and motion was animated was just pure joy!

By the way, I'm curious why was the Br55 chosen as the representative class of Axis loki ?

I would guess it might have something to with the age of the locomotive type, something that would fit the earliest scenarios in IL-2 that still saw use throughout the war. Where as something like the Kriegslok/DRB Class 52 didn't see service until 1942.


If one were to make a suggestion for the future..

I think adding in a British loco set would be nice too. Something that could be used as the allied loco type on the new Tobruk map as an example (or indeed, any other western front map). The type of locomotive best suited would probably be a Stanier 8F (first introduced in 1935) that was used quite a bit by the War Department early on before being replaced by the WD Austerity 2-8-0 (which was first introduced in 1943).

[Spudkopf]

Originally Posted by swede94

I would guess it might have something to with the age of the locomotive type, something that would fit the earliest scenarios in IL-2 that still saw use throughout the war. Where as something like the Kriegslok/DRB Class 52 didn't see service until 1942.

Actually the vast majority of the DR rolling stock dated from the 20's and 30's and in some cases from before WWI, much of it being incorporated from the multitude of the pre-nationalised railways companies and authorities that existed across Germany, like the Prussian State Railways. But it's true the modern types like the BR52, 44, 01 hail from the late 30's and early 40's.

During WWII the DR also acquired extra stock from the occupied territories, much of it purchased originally from Germany or built under licence pre-war (including polish, etc versions of the BR55).

The BR 55 (G8.1) was used for heavy freight due to it's relatively heavy weight and to a lesser extent for some passenger services on main lines. But I can think of quite a few other types that have similar spec's from the same period and available in similar or even greater numbers. So I was just intrigued to here from the creator(s) why the they picked the BR55.