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I have a feeling the Sherman III uses the textures named like so : It uses the M4A2 model from CMRT after all.

My bad. Here it is:

The M44 uniform variant for the Germans is missing from the near-end of war "Standard" appearance for Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS Here is a pic of it in CMRT : It is frankly astonishing how much stuff was not ported over from the other games with 1945 end dates. Trust me I am glad that the release was made but this makes it seem like this expansion was rushed out with low QA. And for what should be the magnum opus of the late WW2 modules no less. The new formations added need a do-over to get them consistent with the other games in my opinion.

Yes, the Sherman V is the only one which has that issue. It's actually quite different to the other Sherman models when you look at the texture layout and the 3D model. It's only the bracket, as you can see there is no antenna coming out of it and the top is bolted shut with a round steel plate. The bracket itself was part of the hull of every Sherman tank.

Both of those have been like that forever. It's easy to ignore honestly. The "rounded thingamajig" is the hull radio antenna bracket. The regular radio is in the turret but an additional one could be fitted in the hull for command tanks.

Here's how it's supposed to look:

The new scenario made me notice that the US Army does not have the appropriate M43 uniform appearance option starting in April 45. The only option is Standard (M41). Seen in CMFI R2V at the same date : The Sherman V texture still does not include the bow MG. Look at the bottom right : From the patch: Correct:

Also someone I know pointed out that the armoured regiments had two Fireflies per troop by 1945. This is not reflected in-game as far as I can tell, in fact most of the TO&Es seem to be copy-pasted from CMBN. Sherman IIAs are missing from the Polish faction as well which would be a pretty interesting vehicle to differentiate it from Commonwealth armor. It was said that this expansion was made with love but that only seems to concern the US faction from what I can see.

The Sherman V remained in use until the end of the war as the main tank in Commonwealth Armoured Divisions (Guards, where the Tulip version was field-made, 11th Armoured, 4th Canadian Armoured) and in the Canadian independent tank brigades. Production had ended in 1943 but there were enough spares to go around. In fact the M4A4 also equipped two French Armoured divisions, the 1st and the 5th. The British had started using Sherman I's and Sherman I Hybrids (missing from the game for unknown reasons) for Firefly conversions, and they would be more present during this game's timeframe than in CMBN's.

I will note that the bow machine gun has no texture.

The gun breech was rotated 90 degrees towards the loader to ease his job, since it was designed to be loaded from above. It was so large that the radio, which was in the back of the turret, had to be placed further back, protruding inside a piece of armor. It looks pretty uncanny without the stowage bin usually seen on British Shermans. It also pretty much forced the designers to add a loader's hatch on the turret roof since he couldn't get in or out otherwise. The bow machine gunner was omitted to make room for the larger ammunition. The bow MG port was covered with additional armor, which can be observed in-game.

The vehicle is currently available in-game in the Panzergrenadier Battalion B (Panzer Brigade) formation, though it is only the early one with the 15mm guns. In CMRT the late version with the 20mm guns is introduced in December 1944.

That's a great addition! In fact I already made a mod of it using the hull from R2V's Firefly Hybrid : If I hear of an extremely late M4 75mm variant though, it would be the M4A1E9. It was basically a "poor man's" HVSS suspension made by extending the VVSS's track connectors and achieving the same width and thus ground pressure. I believe these would start being present on the front around March 1945. It seems only M4A1s were remanufactured, no M4's. Seen here in service with the 2nd French Armored division in late April 1945 : Here is an article on this. http://the.shadock.free.fr/sherman_minutia/e9suspension/e9suspension.html To recapitulate, I hope the Sherman IC Firefly Hybrid (Commonwealth + Poles) and the Sherman IIA (Polish faction only) will be ported from R2V.

You can tell a Sherman I Hybrid from the hull hatches and the fact that the front hull is made from cast armor while the rest is welded. Late model hulls, on which most of the Sherman Hybrid (or in US nomenclature, Composite) production was based on, had hatches larger than the earlier ones. Sherman I Hybrid : Sherman II : By the way, congratulations on your recovery!

At least I tried. Perhaps I should post these in the Ukrainian weather thread after all.

The Hybrid Firefly served in Downfall's theater and is present in R2V, so it should be added to the TO&E when possible. As seen in this rather well-known picture : "A Sherman Ic Hybrid of the Coldstream Guards, Guards Armoured Division photographed near Namur, Belgium December 25, 1944." Sorry to bother you like this.

Thanks for the information. One last thing and then I'll bugger off, I didn't see the Firefly IC Hybrid in the list either. It's in there, right?

I don't have access to any documents of the sort. Whether it makes it into the release, a patch or never is BF's call. All I know is that they were used as replacement tanks for the 75mm Shermans and that more and more were delivered to the division as the war in Europe closed to its end.

The Sherman Tulip was two RP-3 rockets on a fixed rail on each side of the turret. They were set to a certain distance and there was no way to aim them apart from that, so its use as an off-map asset would be dubious. It was clearly designed to be used in direct fire. As far as I know it was a modification unique to the Guards Armoured Division in Northwest Europe. Here is an excerpt from a combat action in the Netherlands in April 1945: "Tulip equipped Sherman tanks, belonging to the 1st Armoured Battalion, Coldstream Guards, 5th Guards Armoured Brigade, Guards Armoured Division, were involved in the action near the bridge over the Twente Canal between Enschede and Hengelo, in the Netherlands, on the 1st April 1945. Lt Boscawen’s No.2 Troop of five tanks was leading the way at maximum speed down a concrete canal road to take the bridge by surprise. No.2 Squadron’s armored car had managed to rush over the bridge first. Sergeant Caulfield’s Sherman Firefly had turned right to cross the bridge and follow the scout car but spotted a German four gun 8.8 cm flak battery to his left. He opened fire as he crossed the bridge. Lt Boscawen’s Sherman Mk.V tank was following. His tank fired its 75 mm (2.95 in) gun and machine guns at the German gun emplacement. It was protected by high earth mounds so he launched both his rockets. At the same time, the canal bridge was blown up by German engineers and his tank was hit in the petrol tank by a German shell that caused the tank to catch fire." If that is the case then I think it's a bummer, but fair enough. It was a pretty rare and special vehicle though quite representative of its timeframe and theater. The Ostwind definitely served on the Western Front though, there is no reason to omit it considering it is present in F&R.

The 1st Polish Armoured Division used Sherman IIAs, they were refitted with them in Holland so I think they would have been available around the start of CMFB's timeframe. There is no reason not to have them in since they're in R2V, they just need the MTO markings removed and to be put into the TO&E. Here are some pictures of them. I found a caption for this specific one: "Sherman IIA of the Polish 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade, KO'd in the Netherlands in late 1944"

Can we get some info on this? Perhaps it has already been asked, but accidentally omitting vehicles that already exist in R2V and F&R (apart from the Tulip) would be a bummer.

Is the TO&E list final? I've seen a few things missing like the Sherman IIA, the Sherman Tulip and the Ostwind. The lack of an LVT-4 and/or a DUKW is also somewhat of a disappointment, looking at all the amphibious operations during this timeframe.

Hi EZ, do you perhaps still have the German tropical uniform templates?

The muzzle flash and spent casing ejection were bugged, I fixed it. Just redownload.

From what I've seen, the DPM did not see much combat use, if at all, during WW2. I have chosen to replace it with the more accurate DT-27 tank machine gun in infantry use. This has UI icons for vanilla and Juju's UI. It does not change magazine size or any other specs on the machine gun. https://www.mediafire.com/file/grotcbjjkj3lcff/DT+for+DPM.rar/file