Battle for the Crimea. Autumn 1941.

[Karaganov]

Nacha, Radun (reworked)

[Karaganov]

Zambrow fortified zone

[Karaganov]

Osovets fortified zone

[Brazenman]

Karaganov
I think it would be nice if we add a trait of camo for Po-2 and Fi 156 Storch

[Brazenman]

ORIGINAL: R35

I haven`t tested to see how it looks on bombers, but it might be better to have those bombers that have the machine guns facing backwards to turn their backs on the enemy fighter when responding with fire. It also makes sense because bombers should actually fly away form the fighter, not directly towards it.

I think that is a good idea

[R35]

Unfortunately I think it`s hardcoded to land units only. I did a quick test and the portee trait just got ignored for the bombers.

[Svetlanka]

Oh thank Karaganov!
It's cool!
This is a great New Year gift for us!

[R35]

Does anyone know what type of plane Rudel flew during the invasion of Poland?

Also, do we have an AT version of the German 15 cm sIG 33?

[Kompolka]

ORIGINAL: R35

Does anyone know what type of plane Rudel flew during the invasion of Poland?

Ju 87B

ORIGINAL: R35

Also, do we have an AT version of the German 15 cm sIG 33?

Unfortunately H.Balck made only artillery version this gun
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[R35]

ORIGINAL: Kompolka
Ju 87B

Thank you, but everything I can find on the internet mentions that he was part of a reconnaissance unit during the Battle of Poland. For example:

As an air observer, Rudel flew on long-range reconnaissance missions over Poland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Ulri ... rld_War_II
I doubt he flew recon missions on a Stuka.

I`m asking because I`d like to update the vanilla DLC scenarios to be less historically inaccurate and more diverse in terms of units and transports. Apart from the big blunders (like the Italians inside Stalingrad, Romanians in Yugoslavia and so on), the general gameplay was pretty good so with relatively little work it can be made into a reasonably good campaign. It certainly won`t take years like the ambitious projects clearly do and it provides something playable while the bigger projects get underway. Personally I`d like to spend more time playing the game than working on it.

Unfortunately H.Balck made only artillery version this gun

That is a pity considering that he made AT versions for all the 4 self-propelled artillery units that used this gun. Seems odd that the towed piece would not be able to conduct direct fire too.

[R35]

@Karaganov I think the vanilla developers really screwed the defence values of the sIG 38(t) M (the Grille Ausf. K in reality):
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/n ... Grille.php
It has 10 for ground defence and 10 for air defence which is comparable to the StuG IIIB, even though it is actually an open top vehicle, much like the sIG 33 II (Sf), Wespe and Hummel which have values in the range of 3-6. Even if you compare their chassis and tower armour I don`t see what justifies those high defence values on the Grille.

[Karaganov]

ORIGINAL: R35

@Karaganov I think the vanilla developers really screwed the defence values of the sIG 38(t) M (the Grille Ausf. K in reality):
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/n ... Grille.php
It has 10 for ground defence and 10 for air defence which is comparable to the StuG IIIB, even though it is actually an open top vehicle, much like the sIG 33 II (Sf), Wespe and Hummel which have values in the range of 3-6. Even if you compare their chassis and tower armour I don`t see what justifies those high defence values on the Grille.

Thank you! We will try to fix it

[R35]

I gave mine 4 for ground defence and 5 for air defence.

I`ve assembled the Romanian Fi-156. The camouflage is wrong and the plane only entered service with Romania in 1942 and was actually used for liaison and not reconnaissance, but in lack of an IAR-38, what a hey, maybe you can find an use for it.

[R35]

Guys, I have a question: were there any Soviet river monitors on the Volga during the battle of Stalingrad?

And speaking of Stalingrad, do we have this SPG?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturm-Inf ... 3%BCtz_33B

[Brazenman]

ORIGINAL: R35

Guys, I have a question: were there any Soviet river monitors on the Volga during the battle of Stalingrad?

Volga flotilla had in its composition 20 gunboats (kanonenboot), 20 armored boats and 12 minesweepers.

River monitors fought on the Dnieper River, the Pripyat River, the Berezina River and the Danube River in the summer of 1941

ORIGINAL: R35

And speaking of Stalingrad, do we have this SPG?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturm-Inf ... 3%BCtz_33B

Ohhh...
we still need a lot of units for scenario battle of Stalingrad ...

[Svetlanka]

Happy New Year!!!
Thank you guys! I hope that you will continue to delight us in the new year!

[R35]

ORIGINAL: Brazenman
Volga flotilla had in its composition 20 gunboats (kanonenboot), 20 armored boats and 12 minesweepers.

River monitors fought on the Dnieper River, the Pripyat River, the Berezina River and the Danube River in the summer of 1941

Thank you!

ORIGINAL: R35
Ohhh...
we still need a lot of units for scenario battle of Stalingrad ...

Yep. Come to think of it, a new set of German aircraft would have been nice too. As I`ve said, I`m updating the DLC scenarios and after I`ve replaced the Italians attacking Stalingrad with Romanians I can`t help but notice the difference in size between the German He-111 and the Romanian He-111. Romania must have fed its Heinkels more than Germany I suppose.

[Karaganov]

New Year's gift
http://my-files.ru/p3fnye
It is small presentation of map of Stalingrad-1942

[R35]

Great work on that! At 72,60 the size of the map is fairly small btw. Maybe it will work on Slitherine`s MP system too.

[Brazenman]

ORIGINAL: R35

Great work on that! At 72,60 the size of the map is fairly small btw. Maybe it will work on Slitherine`s MP system too.

Unfortunately, this is only a small piece of map. I suspect that the MP problem will not be solved in the near future. I think we can forget about it. So we are left with only the hot seat...