Fußball

Beautiful find. Only wish I could find perfectly preserved tanks lying around in the mud! Tschüß! Erich

They definitely deserve the 'Super-Mega' title. IMO with how grueling making the mods sound and how long we have waited. O and remember to relax and take your time...just not too much time. Tschüß! Erich

I did not call you a scoundrel for nothing Mikey. Tschüß! Erich

Mikey you scoundrel! When those Panthers are finished I am going to have to add another of your tank mods to my list. Tschüß! Erich

Well with all this talk of Panther this and Panther that... As you know when it comes to mods, we CM players are like children, keep talking about them for long enough and we will have our greedy little eyes on whats to come! Now when are those Panthers coming along? Tschüß! Erich

Go to www.cmmods.com and check under CMBB and then Newest Mods. Tschüß! Erich

OMG, Mikey finally tackles Panther tracks! It is about damned time too! Now all you have to do is finally tackle the Panther tank! Tschüß! Erich

Good show Pat. Keep up the wonderful mods. Tschüß! Erich

Beautiful, simply beautiful. Now time for me to boot up CMBB and play some early war scenarios! ^^ Tschüß! Erich

Very nice website, I have never seen it before either. Nice find. Tschüß! Erich

It would be great if you somewhat ported your works into Russian lendlease for CMBB. The Russians need their halftracks facelifted. Its no fun destroying ugly vehicles you know. Tschüß! Erich

Mikey you scoundrel, using nudity to help sell your works! Nice job by the way, is that not most if not all of the Ami halftracks now? Tschüß! Erich

There are many many snow modifications. Just check out http://www.cmmods.com, create a free account and get downloading! Do not worry about the snow mods overwriting any .bmps already in the game. The game did not come with any snow .bmps or the game would have extended another disc! If I may make a suggestion check out a designer named DEY/daffy. He makes wonderful snow modifications. Tschüß! Erich

Very great work. The halftracks are coming up roses indeed. Tschüß! Erich

Very nice cartoon strip! Gave me a laugh. Tschüß! Erich

I was not referring to you me boy so don't take offense. JasonC is the only person that comes to mind who has shown this behavior who is a frequent poster. I have seen a few others but you nor Andreas are anyone I speak of if that is what you are inquiring. Maybe I should have stated German side of the war and not so much "German equipment". Tschüß! Erich

Thanks for the additional input, I forgot to add about the tank's hull machine gun being 'blind' when hull down. I also read about tank's using tracers to range for the main gun but I only read about it being used with modern tanks such as the M1 Abrams. So I was unsure whether or not to add this. O and by the way, my tag is spelled Fussball without the esset or double s ( ß ). Tschüß! Erich

Holy expletive deleted Batman! Someone please delete that post as I meant to edit and not to quote myself... :eek: Tschüß! Erich

O the joys of learning about pivoting cylinders which spray hundreds of rounds of death wielding lead. Where shall we begin? Let us start with... Bow: The bow mounted machine gun refers to the machine gun mounted in the hull of the vehicle. In most German tanks where the radioman is positioned beside the driver, the radio man operated the hull mounted machine gun. As far as I know this is the case with most other country's tanks as well but I could be wrong. The advantage of the bow machine gun is quite obvious. It allows the vehicle to have a defense against soft targets directly facing the front of the vehicle. The disadvantage of a bow mounted machine gun is it is located in the front of the vehicle so only targets in front of the vehicle can be engaged. Coaxial: The coaxial mounted machine gun refers to the machine gun mounted in the turret of the tank beside the main gun. This enabled crew within the turret to engage targets with both the main gun as well as the machine gun, whichever they see fit to use. The advantage of the coaxial machine gun is that instead of using the tank's main gun, perhaps for an unnecessary target for the main gun, the crew could use the machine gun. As previously stated, for soft and vulnerable targets. The disadvantage of the coaxial machine gun is that wherever the main gun is aiming, so is the coaxial machine gun. The turret has to be rotated for the coaxial machine gun as does the main gun. Rear: The rear mounted machine gun refers to a machine gun mounted in the rear of a vehicle. Located in the rear of the turret, the rear turret mounted machine gun's purpose was to engage targets behind the vehicle. Examples of the vehicles that employed this design being the KW-I & KW-II, models of the T-26 and the IS-2. The advantage of the rear mounted machine gun was that it could be used to engage targets behind the vehicle without turning the turret. The disadvantage is that if a tank only has a rear mounted machine gun, they cannot engage targets in the front of the vehicle. But most vehicles with rear mounted machine guns had front facing machine guns as well. And last but not least... Flexible: The flexible mount machine gun refers to a machine gun mounted on the hatch of the turret. The primary use of the flexible machine gun is to engage low flying aircraft as its only means of personal AA defense. Although depending on the situation the flexible machine gun can be used to engage soft targets around the vehicle. Albeit the hatch has to be opened and the TC visable to operate the flexible, turret mounted machine gun. Other vehicles beside tanks had flexible machine guns for AA purposes as well as for soft targets. An example of this being the Sdkfz 251/10 halftrack. Which had a rear mounted flexible machine gun for personal AA defense as well as for engaging soft targets. The advantage of this machine gun is its ability to engage low flying aircraft. It may not be a very effective means of doing so but at least you have some defense against aircraft. Another advantage is, given the situation, the ability of having a machine gun to engage soft targets Despite not being included there were German flexible machine gun mounts for tanks. But these were used primarily during movement through areas where air attacks are possible. Instead of using a specific high caliber weapon such as the Russian DShK 12.7mm and American M2HB 12.7mm machine gun. German crews simply mounted an MG34 or MG42 for the purpose. And even though you did not mention it. I will elaborate on remote controlled machine guns... Remote: Remote controlled machine guns or rundumsfeuer, meaning remote control, were present on a few German vehicles. Namely the late Sturmgeschütz IIIG & IV models as well as the Hetzer. The purpose of these machine guns being that they could be operated without the operator being visible, as well as being operated manually. The advantage being that you can be safely within your tank and still engage targets with the mounted machine gun. The disadvantage to these machine guns is they had to be reloaded manually, with the operator visible. I hope that helps. In closing I do not think I have ever used the word machine gun that many times! Tschüß! Erich [ October 26, 2006, 05:51 PM: Message edited by: Fußball ]

Depends on the T34 and the situation in question. All T34's before the T34/85 M43 are at a severe disadvantage to a hull up mid model G or higher at 600m or over. A round to the turret is the only chance a T34 will have in that case. When the T34/85 comes onto the field then it depends on who hits what first. In zmoney's defense he stated,"you sound like a Nazi fan boy". He never stated you are a "nazi fan boy". In your defense, some denizens here will tag you as a nazi for liking German equipment. If they do, completely and utterly ignore them. Tschüß! Erich

Through all of the debate and confusion in this thread I have but one question... How many more times are we going to read LOL? Tschüß! Erich

This is really the only thing here I can agree with. The 7,5cm L43/46/48 seem to be notorious for missing. I have had tank after tank with the exceptionally accurate and powerful 7,5cm gun shoot round after round only to miss and be dispatched by the first or second round from a Sherman or T34. The hit percentage tends to tell lies in the number provided when it comes to the 7,5cm German gun. That or the crews were trained in a pasture throwing rocks at cattle as their "training". This coming from very sour past experiences and rampant testing. If you want your PzIVs from model G middle to model J living a bit longer I suggest never use hull down unless the enemy's gun is powerful enough to eat holes in the 8cm hull anyway. Do a search on why you never hull down with a PzIV. You may find a lot of resources related to this topic. One problem is you cannot ambush with tanks very well. Once they are spotted by someone they are spotted by everyone. If you have one carefully placed PzIV in a well keyholed position to ambush and one lone infantryman spots it, it is over for the PzIV's plan of surprise. About the only thing you can do to lower the chance of an enemy spotting your tank is cause the enemy tanks to button up. Which in pure armor can be rather difficult without constant MG fire or a sharpshooter. And if you are playing German, the American tanks can more easily button up your tanks with .50cal fire from the flexible MG mount. All of these factors can be very frustrating when using a tank with a very vulnerable turret. In short try to engage at longest ranges possible with your tank anything but hull down. That will only get it killed faster. Just remember if the 7,5cm gun on the PzIV actually hits the enemy then there is an unlikely chance the enemy is going to react further. That and try not to engage one on one. Try to target one tank with as many others as possible. As well as making sure your tank is angled which will add to the effectiveness of the PzIV's lackluster 8cm armor. At range the 8cm armor will bounce plenty of Sherman rounds. All in all be patient and use your PzIV's as effectively as possible. A great gun in a somewhat protective box is what you get. They are not invincible but if you try hard enough they are winners. O and before I forget... It is Wehrmacht by the way. Tschüß! Erich

Nice work. Keep them coming! Tschüß! Erich

Nice work Pat. Needed a good sandbag mod! Tschüß! Erich