Gud

I've seen recently footage from siege of Berlin. It showed a Katyusha firing over open sights at buildings. Half the rockets went wild and hit random spots and half slammed into the building. Crazy. This footage shows also a 280mm Gun fired over open sights at range of some 200m. Talk about "infantry support".

Yep, the famous Soviet 45mm L46 obr.35/37 gun. It could kill any Nazi tank in 1941. Certainly more than enough for anything the Finns could deploy (save the 5 T-28's)

Info taken from WW2 Vehicles L. Troyanov and I. Bushnevov directed a design bureau to create a light tank replacement for the T-26 and BT tanks. Had cast conical shaped turret with commander's cupola and the hull was welded. In the cupola was 6 angle seals with armored blinds over them. The first 2 vehicles were finished at Factory No. 174 in Leningrad in late 1940. After a few modifications it was ready for delivery in April 1941. The driver sat in the center of the forward hull and used a slit in the armor and a turning periscope for driving. The vehicle was to also have a radio set. It was similar in appearance to the KVs so it was nicknamed Mali Klim or Little Kliment Voroshilov. The tank was complex and required great resources and was discontinued. It took about as much effort to produce a medium tank as it was to produce the T-50. Crew 4 Physical Characteristics Weight 29,700 lb, 13.5-14 tons Length w/gun 18' 3.25", 5.2 m Length w/o gun Height 7' 7.25", 2.16 m Width 8' 8.75", 2.47 m Ground clearance 0.35 m Ground contact length Ground pressure Turret ring diameter Armament (mm) Main 45 mm 1938 Secondary MG 1, 2: 7.92 mm DT MG Side arms Quantity Main 150 Secondary MG 4,000, 400 Side arms Armor Thickness (mm) Hull Front, Upper 37 Hull Front, Lower Hull Sides, Upper 37 Hull Sides, Lower Hull Rear 25-37 Hull Top 12-15 Hull Bottom 12-15 Turret Front 37 Turret Sides 15 Turret Rear 15 Turret Top 12-15 Engine (Make / Model) W-4 Transmission Capacity 350 liters Performance Traverse 360° Max Speed 33 mph, 52-65 kph Cross Country 25 mph Road radius 217.5 miles, 350 km Turning Radius Elevation Limits Fording depth 1.1 m Trench crossing 2.2 m Vertical Obstacle 0.7 m Suspension (Type) Torsion bar Wheels each side Return rollers each side Track length Tires Track width Track centers/tread Production 63, 65 1941: 48 1942: 15 [ February 27, 2002, 04:13 PM: Message edited by: Gud ]

Hello, I've been browsing the Model Contest entry list and I've noticed that T-50 is absent. Does it mean that it won't make it into the game ?

Hello, I was busy browsing the archives of this Forum, and I've found out that multi-turret tanks will not make it into CM:BB. While T-35 was a really rare vehicle (AFAIK some were used in defense of Moscow), but the other tank, the T-28 was far more "popular". I agree that it is impossible to portray T-35 since the extra turrets had 45mm guns, but T-28 had two mini-turrets with DT MGs. I have thought about following solution - to make T-28 a "normal" tank, but with additional Bow MG firepower. This is the way T-28 works in Steel Panthers - it has additional frontal MG "punch". I thought of this after I bought an excellent Polish book on Axis Minors AFVs and I read that Finns praised T-28 as their best AFV (until StuGs and captured T-34s appeared in Summer 1944)

Hmmmmmm (deep in thought)[/qb]

1st choice: Magyars ! Of all Nazi allies they had most advanced military industry and produced some decent hardware (Zrinyi, Nimrod, Csaba). Also I would love to play winter 1942 battles of Hungarian 2nd Army. 2nd choice: Bulgarians. I admire the fact that Germans pumped Pz-IVs, 88s, StuGs and aircraft to reinforce Bulgaria only to have them switch sides and attack Germany in Fall 1944. One of very few occasions to have Pz-IV on both sides of the battlefield. 3rd choice, what else, the Finns ! Hack and slash the Soviet scum !

Hello all, Some of you may recall me from Steel Panthers mailing lists on TGN (R.I.P) and now on Yahoo. For others- i'm a wargamer from Poland, Gud is my name. After long attempts it looks like finally i'm going to put my hands on CM (it will have an offical release in Poland). I have a question regarding CM2 - will LWP (Communist Exiled Poles) units be included ? I'm pleased that BTS included "western" Poles in CM:BO, and i'm curious if "estern" army will be included in forthcoming game. Cheers all, Jakub "Gud" Jaraczewski