Sardaukar

I need to go home and check since I have checked only briefly about captured Soviet tanks in Finnish use. There should be: - KV-1 m1942 (one captured and used) - KV-1E (one captured and used) - T-34 m40 and m41 (several) - T-34/85 (several captured June-July 1944) - ISU-152 (one captured and lost 4 days later during summer 1944) - T-28 m1938 (almost all uparmoured to T-28E standards) - T-28E (one or 2 captured) I use "several" in Finnish sense . IIRC, 8 T-34-85s were captured. All those should be reasonably rare. I don't even want to think about Stug III G modifications like: -use of logs to uparmour "turret" side - 15 mm plate added to hull front - spare track parts fixed on glacis - use of concrete to uparmour "turret" front Probably unrealistic to expect to see these in game . Cheers, M.S.

Sounds good. There is a Finnish book by Esa Muikku and Jukka Purhonen "The Finnish armoured vehicles- Suomalaiset panssarivaunut 1918-1997". It says: page 20: "Thirty Sturmgeschütz 40 Ausführung G assault guns (Ps 531-1 to 30)of a planned total of 45,from contract #1189, arrived at Pori harbour in three shipments: 6 July (10), 13 August (8) and 3 September 1943 (12)." and: "They were produced at Alkett (Altmärkische Kettenwerk GmbH) in Berlin (10) and MIAG Mühlenbau und Industrie AG) in Braunschweig (19). The hull of one assault gun was manufactured by MAN (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg) to the PxKpfw III Ausf. M specification." also same page: "The first vehicles were issued to the Assault Gun battaillon on 2 September 1943. By June 1944, the vehicles were further modified by the Assault Gun Battaillon: - original spaced side armour plates were removed - German 7.92 mm MG 34 machine guns were replaced by Russian 7.62 mm DT machine guns -spare road wheels were moved to racks on sides of fighting compartment -a wooden equipment box was constructed on the engine deck" I hope this helps. Cheers, M.S.

True. Cheers, M.S.

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Yep, PZ IV Js, and Stugs had DT MG, it's clearly shown in parade pic dated early summer 1944. Cheers, M.S.

I'd like to see a feature that allows only units to be imported from saved games to QBs. That would allow sort of "dynamic campaign" with all QB randomization. It can be done now..sort of, but you have to create map. That will cause difficulties if you want to randomize the battle type. This way you could follow certain unit through whole war with series of QBs...most would not last, but it'd add more interest to keep certain units alive. Cheers, M.S.

It'd be really good thing if some friendly soul would put those differing BMPs to web page for download. I like authentic looks, even though I understand the legal reason in Germany. I hope that BTS would allow that. Finnish vehicles should have those, since they were quite large for identification purposes. Cheers, M.S.

I think there are mixup on that page. Korpraali should be Lance Corporal and alikersantti a Corporal. Cheers, M.S.

Otto Carius (one of Tiger aces) says in his book "Tigers in the mud" that it was common to push bogged Tigers or failing to start ones with another Tiger to get them moving instead of towing them. That did minimize the possibility of crew casualties. Cheers, M.S.