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bump for Amedeo's post. Great work though Matt.

Oh my! I mean, if ALL the Russians in the world are as you are... well I guess there is something wrong with your school / family teaching methods. He worked hard , and freely, for all us to see it, and that ALONE should be praised. If there are errors, they can be corrected normally, and in fact he is contacting another (fortunately...) Russian out there. Then... heh, speaking of "Offending Russian soldiers" because he didn't write these words rightly sounds so ironic. Bravo Francesco, great job, and keep up the good work. --- Grande Fran, continua cosi'. Amedeo, hai ricevuto la mia ultima e-mail? Ciao

Hi Mike, I was thinking about that yesterday. I'm waiting for the next patch, so we'll have the L.3, the M15 (can be used as an M13,as they are almost the same tank), the L.6 and the Semovente da 47. The Hungarian self-propelled gun can simulate the "Semovente da 75/18" nicely. Time is what is lacking... Some scenarios can be made easily, as the basic units are there, such as Matildas, Valentines, Stuart, Sherman etc.

bump.

Ciao Amedeo, that's a very interesting point. By the way, sometimes hits are scored on turret fronts, but I don't know if gun mantlets or added armor is taken into considerations. Front turret armor has many "armors" within it, gun shield, gun recoil housing, odd angles etc. Maybe the suggestion you mentioned could be used realistically in CMBB, but I think we'll have to wait for the next engine rewrite to actually see hits score in different parts of a tank, calculating each armor a tank had in each angle. (something like in WW2OL). However, the "narrow turret front" idea is very good I guess.

Oh my.... oh my.... oh simply my GOOOOOOOOD !!! LOve you guys! I really do! The L.3 is now done.... the Semovente da 47 is now done.... and the MIGHTY (oh well...) M15 is DONE!! I really wouldn't have thought that, it's simply great. We can just start to create some North African mod with what we have now. I simply can't wait. Tomorrow the game should arrive here too, 25 kms south of Rome. If not, Monday oh well. Can't wait that long.

IIRC, something similiar was used here during the first world war. There were many types of "personal armoured shields", but I don't think they were "that" effective.

My grandfather (father' side) was stationed in Sicily during 1942 , as a part of the medical staff of the 180th Field Hospital, attached to the "Superga" Inf. Div. The Superga had to take Malta during that summer, but insted they landed in Tunisia and were sent to the frontline as soon as they reached the theater. He recalled of being strafed by British planes before landing, and the terrific noises of Machine guns firing against them. The Superga was later almost destroyed, and he and a handful of survivors were captured by the British, then sent to the USS "Vulcan" (I have his POW card with the ship's name) for recognition, and then to Gibraltar, where he worked alongside British pesonnel. He was under the Red Cross and never ever said anything wrong against the British. He actually disliked the Germans, as he remembered some bad accounts in North Africa. Finally he came back in 1950 or so, and died in 1982 when I was just born. He almost never talked about his war experiences. Sometimes he recalled so many wounded men he saw, British or Italian, and how they suffered. He said that many times they didn't have sufficient medicinals, so they gave Whiskey to the prisoners as an anestetic (!). His brother was a Leutenent , and fought in Albania and Greece during 1940/41 and then in Jugoslavia against Tito's partisans. He told us some stories, about how terrible it was, but not a lot too. He always hated yugoslavians, or communist for that reason. He is still alive and looks younger than me. A relative was on an Atlantic submarine (have to find in what submarine he was exactly), and survived. There is a relative who fought in Russia, but he's a far relative and I don't know much about him.

Hi K98! Still waiting for the game myself, here near Rome. Very good looking sites! Really liked them. Keep up the good work.

Arrghhhh a frenchman said something about "panicking" and "running"! Now I'm really offended. Heh, il tipo gia rompeva prima. Poi è francese, quindi proprio non dovrebbe dire niente su faccende militari. Almeno noi abbiamo combattuto per 3 anni! :cool: Portano il pane sotto le ascelle, non sapevano neanche utilizzare le posate prima di averglielo insegnato noi. Fran, ma hai ricevuto le mie email? p.s. Pascal, basically I said that (since we're talking about food) we taught you how to use forks , spoons etc to eat something, since before that you just ate with your bare hands in a good old fashioned barbarian way! [ September 30, 2002, 05:12 PM: Message edited by: audace ]

Yeah it was really a piace of crap, especially since it was designed in 1942 (sic!). I don't know how many were captured by the Germans, but I know for sure that many P40, Semoventi da 75,105 and 149 were used by the Germans and the Italians against the Allies in Northern Italy. Some were used in Jugoslavia against Partisans in the Prinz Eugen div. IIRC. Some semoventis and P40s were even used at Anzio. Go here for some good pictures of Italian tanks: http://digilander.libero.it/pmg/contributi/censimento/censimento_02.htm [ September 30, 2002, 04:36 AM: Message edited by: audace ]

Wow. I really wouldn't have thought that even the 75 mod. 97/38 is in the game. The 65 mountain howitzer is there too! Strange: aren't the 105/28, the 149/40 and the 210mm howitzer available as indirect arty? It's ok for the screenshots, I really don't want to see everything, maybe just a tiny 47mm anti-tank if you can! Thank you Generale. [ September 27, 2002, 05:37 AM: Message edited by: audace ]

Hello, Generale Pasquini, please could you tell me what artillery cannons, howitzers and mortars are available for the Italians in 1942? What kind of anti-tank guns are there? How are the various kind of infantry modeled? (Inf, Bersaglieri, Alpini) Thank you!

Nippy, yeah the Solothurn, 20mm anti-"tank" gun was used, at least in the Italian Army. As one can guess, it wasn't very succesful against Matildas, Valentines, Grants etc. [ September 26, 2002, 01:39 PM: Message edited by: audace ]

Great work Juju. I don't have the game yet, (and hopefulyl it will arrive shortly!) but downloaded the file just to see some weapons in CMBB. They really look good. I even noticed the Mod.91 rifle and the MAB38 SMG gun! Didn't see the Breda 30 LMG though. Nice work!

I don't know if it was an Ansaldo design, quite surely it was. Weapons and armour came from Ansaldo in Genoa, engines and mechanical stuff from Fiat or SPA. Too bad Ferrari engines weren't born yet, and Lamborghini was producing tractors. [ September 24, 2002, 01:46 PM: Message edited by: audace ]

So true, it was basically a light tank. By 1942 though the new P26/40 was to enter production, but there wasn't a single good and reliable engine in all Italy... (now I woder: couldn't we ask our german allies to give us a license for some Maybach?). Too bad it didn't enter production till 1943. [ September 24, 2002, 03:42 AM: Message edited by: audace ]

Pz M15/42 738(i) ??? That's an up-armed and up-armoured M13/40 "Medium" tank! If it's really there, then a North African mod would really be easy to do...

Of course! And I won't even have to re-make all the voices! Heh, there was that "For the King, for the Duce, for Italy, get up and fight!!!" that it was pronounced in a weird way by a friend of mine, but was kind hilarious in the end. We could have only said "Savoia!" instead , as in real life. [ September 20, 2002, 03:44 AM: Message edited by: audace ]

Vondeath, nope it's an L.6 light tank, mostly used in North Africa as a recce tank, due to its crap performance. It is armed with a Breda 20mm M.35 gun, and an 8mm coaxial MG. Crew is 2. Unfortunately the majority of our tanks, Semoventi and Autoblinde were all in the North Africa theatre. In Russia, with the "Celere" Division, some L.3 and L.6 were sent,basically to support infantry. The Hungarians though have a self-propelled gun that is very similiar to the Semovente da 75/18, so it could be used in a future North African mod.

Hi Barticus! Yeah, it was a great experience indeed. Heh, I went a few times to that Little Italy part of the city, but when I tried to ask someone a question about a street, and telling them I was Italian as well, I actually couldn't really understand them. They had to repeat it in english, as it was an Abruzzi, or a Sicilian or Calabrian slang, mixed with english, and I didn't understand a lot. Strange. I went to the J.S.Woodsworth High School in Nepean. I actually liked the weather, I've always liked cold weather, really don't know why. Where I live here, in winter is quite cold, it snows regularly etc. I'll have to leave today to the North-east tip of Italy, in the Alps for the week-end so I won't see any more screens for a few days. Thank you all for your pics guys! [ September 20, 2002, 03:42 AM: Message edited by: audace ]

Hi Killmore, hell yeah! It was kinda fun though to walk for that few minutes outside in -40°, and to see water drops becoming ice drops all around your jacket! Great memories. My english isn't that good, but when I went to school for the first day I just couldn't understand a word. By the way, I was there as my uncle works at the Italian embassy (Army General, military attache') and he asked me if I wanted to live with him and with my 2 cousins there for some time (they stayed 3 years). Nothing really important. Still miss all my friends there, and my russian girlfriend as well. I lived in Nepean, actually south of Ottawa city. [ September 19, 2002, 06:02 PM: Message edited by: audace ]

Thanks Andreas. Maybe they'll patch it in the future, as Parabellum said, as the CV33 was used in good number in Russia, even by the Hungarians. However, it's just great that the L.6 is there and that it's well done! Do you know what kind of infantry are there? Alpini, Bersaglieri, CCNN? From the above picture , I can see that the other inf. squads in the back don't have the helmets, so they can be some Alpinis. p.s. Barticus: where do you live in Ottawa? I lived there in 1998/1999, when I was just 17/18. Great experience,great country and great people.

THANK YOU PARABELLUM!!! Finally, the first screen I've seen of Italians in CMBB! What can I say: simply great! Uniforms are good, helmets are the Mod.33, the L.6 is shining in its colours, the tank CREWMEN wear the EXACT real french-type helmets and their black leather jackets... G R E A T!!! Can't wait no-more! A question PB: are they normal infantry? What kind of infantry can you see in the editor? The "Bren carriers" though are strange. I haven't read of our Army using some kind of armoured personnel carriers used in Russia (or North Africa). But whatever they are, it's simply marvelous! Ah... if you can add some more int he future it will be even better! j/k It would be cool to see even some Romanians or Polish troops. Thank you man!

PARABELLUM!!!! Thank you man, great pics! Can you show me (us) some screens of Italian troops??? Please! Please! Some Bersaglieri maybe, or an L.3 tank, or a 47mm, or all of them together!! P L E A S E E E E E E E E E E E E