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  1. 17 hours ago, Mudhugger said:

    Regarding the Red Army's uniforms:

    It is correct that the Rifle and Motor Rifle Platoon leaders are not using a Jr. Officer's uniform, as pointed out by Frenchy56. Along with some other platoon leaders. And as he said the SubMg Companies are using them. Hope Battlefront can go through these and fix.

    The officers uniforms are a little mixed up I feel, as the Lieutenant is in the mid-officers slot. And no Kapitan  is even made, so that is why you don't see him. These can be modded and changed to my liking however. If they can correct the Platoon leaders slot. The NCO uniforms seem right but there is no Jr. Sergeant made so that is why he doesn't show. Only Sr. Sergeant and Starshina are depicted.  I modded in my own NCO uniforms to include all ranks and even added a couple of Corporals in the basic uniforms.

    One question I have always had, is why there is not more officers in the Company HQ's  and more NCO's in the Platoon HQ's. I can't find an example of rank in a Red Army Company HQ but I doubt it is one Major surrounded by Privates. I have seen this in the German Company as well but maybe they were not as flush with officers as the Reds.

    Thanks, hope you take a look at this omission (bug).

    It might be a bit confusing, but I'm talking about the ranks displayed in the UI, thus the actual rank of the soldiers. I have not seen a Junior Sergeant in-game yet even though the files for the rank are there, and the actual rank of platoon leaders or equivalent does not change from Captain, the actual rank of company leaders does not change from Major, and the actual rank of battalion leaders doesn't not change from Lt. Colonel.

    Now, the 3D models, yes, mid-officers are Lieutenants for some reason. I'm using Vein's mods, which corrected a few things but was still incorrect, so I modified it so platoon leaders are only 2nd Lieutenants, company leaders are Captains and battalion leaders are Majors. I changed the UI ranks (which are also incorrect for the senior officer ranks: the stars should be gold like all the others) accordingly.

    I've also noticed Praporschik ranks even though they didn't even exist during WW2.

    This seems like it was a part that was glossed over before release.

  2. 8 hours ago, Bulletpoint said:

    I like the improved hand detail, but 

    Shouldn't he be sighting along the barrel to aim?

    Yeah, but since they're M240 animations in the first place and the M240s in the modern games have optics attached, he isn't. Sadly nothing much I can do.

     

    20 hours ago, Badger73 said:

    Please consider uploading this to CMMODSIII --> http://cmmodsiii.greenasjade.net/

    I'm still waiting for an account. Maybe CMFDR can upload it? I won't really mind since they're pretty much renamed animations that were in the game's files in the first place.

  3. I was honestly a bit annoyed by CM's rendition of the Germans firing their LMG's with one hand on the barrel, so I saw that US soldiers in the modern games seemed to hold the M240 closer to what a German GPMG should be.

    So I swapped some files and voilà:

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    Here's the download link:

    http://www.mediafire.com/file/vb8xtrx2j0mciau/mg42_anims.rar/file

    Install it by unzipping it into the Z folder inside your data folder. Create it if you don't have one.

    It should work for all CM2 games.

    Let the spirit of the MACHINE GUN be with you.

     

  4. 25 minutes ago, Bulletpoint said:

    It was a joke with Stielialpha :) I appreciate you have an eye for details and I hope your bug reports get due attention.

    Sorry, text isn't exactly the best at conveying tone and you can see how seriously I take these things.

    How do you make it so MGs deploy in less time though? I think it should be posted in this thread since it's apparently a bug.

  5. I already said this, but let me offer a picture of the problem:

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    Gear for US Airborne seems to be too low in comparison to the belt on the uniform. This image is indeed modded but the belts are the same height on both vanilla and modded skins, and the mods don't modify any model files.

    They seem to be using the same model as regular GI gear, and their belts are lower, which seems to explain it.

  6. 57 minutes ago, Combatintman said:

    And this is exactly the point that @sburkeraised earlier. Evidence always helps in these discussions and, if you are making a reasonable deduction in the absence of it, then you need to say so rather than punt out a one liner about Stummel crew uniforms, post modded in-game images of those 'wrong' uniforms without initially declaring it and posting WW2 photos to support the argument without any apparent context.

    Thank you for a kick in the ass that brought my research a bit further than a few lazy Google searches. I'm still kinda sore though.

     

    Is this enough?

  7. 33 minutes ago, Frenchy56 said:

    Okay, now I've noticed that these Fallschirmjaeger also man the Luftwaffe tank destroyers

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    Maybe they're some sort of stand-in for helmeted self-propelled gun crews? Why did Battlefront not do the same thing as the Heer's equivalent and just give them the steel helmet?

    By the way, the crew size is incorrect: the loader is missing.

  8. Okay, now we've learned that SPG crews indeed wore the Fallschirmjaeger helmet. But they seemingly did not wear the Knochensack. The pictures I found seem to all be in Italy, unless stated otherwise.

    Battlefront probably had trouble combining the SPG wrap with said helmet, so instead they opted to put Fallschirmjaeger in the SPGs. It would still be incorrect.

     

    Edit: Here's a thread I found about those tropical guys. It's said that they're wearing regular Luftwaffe tropical uniforms, but then the paras next to them seem to be doing the same.

    https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/missinglynx/fallschirmjagers-marders-in-italy-t29777.html#p601942

     

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    This guy on the right is definitely wearing an SPG uniform.

  9. Here's some more food for thought

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    Guy on the left is wearing a Fallschirmjaeger helmet. They might be training in Germany.

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    The boys are wearing their sidecaps, not in combat, and they're wearing the white collar tabs.

     

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    In the field, white collar tabs and caps again.

     

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    This looks closer to the game's depiction, however everyone's wearing the helmet and tropical uniforms.

     

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    Seemingly the same boys. Looks like they're Fallschirmjaeger themselves.

  10. Okay, now I've noticed that these Fallschirmjaeger also man the Luftwaffe tank destroyers

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    Maybe they're some sort of stand-in for helmeted self-propelled gun crews? Why did Battlefront not do the same thing as the Heer's equivalent and just give them the steel helmet?

  11. 2 hours ago, Combatintman said:

    You have yet to show an image of a Stummel in a LW armoured unit to prove your point about how the crews should be dressed.

    If you're talking about a real photograph, then I'm afraid there's few chances that one would ever have been taken in these specific conditions (a Stummel from the Hermann Goering Division in Italy 1943-1944 with the crew visible, considering that there were only about six per battalion and the Propaganda Kompanie would rather have headed towards the Panzers, in the few times they were in Italy).

    I'm using deduction here, because I've got no material of the sort. There is apparently no reason that the crew historically did not use the standard uniform.

     

    I've noted that Heer Stummel crews wear the Sturmartillerie uniform, with helmets. Battlefront probably had trouble finding the equivalent Luftwaffe uniform, and not wanting to make a new one specifically for Stummels settled for Fallschirmjaeger uniforms.

    Luftwaffe assault gun crews don't wear the white Hermann Goering collar insignia, they wear the feldgrau panzer division wrap with red piping and Luftwaffe eagle.

    Christ, this is really grinding my gears.

     

    Edit: Got Brummbars from the division

    Panzertruppen of Fallschirmjäger-Panzer-Division “Hermann Göring” (2)

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    They're from the same service, and they're wearing black Panzer jackets. One of them seems to be wearing feldgrau, and seeing how dark the piping seems to be, it should be red. If they were inside an open-topped assault gun like the Stummel they probably would have traded their side caps for helmets.

  12. 1 minute ago, Combatintman said:

    No I've read them and there are inconsistencies with your first post on the topic of Stummel crews. As to the WW2 image, it is always going to help your case if you can source it or give some context.

    Otherwise, you have made some great observations and as @sburke said earlier, keep them coming.

    Right, I shouldn't have posted that image without any explanation.

    Mind if I ask what was inconsistent with the first post?

  13. 10 minutes ago, Combatintman said:

    So where is the Stummel in the WW2 image you posted? I see a couple of individuals with FJ type helmets and some with different headgear in an image for which you offer no context.

    Read my earlier posts, please, if you haven't already. You don't seem to be taking this with the right foot.

    There's not supposed to be a Stummel in the image because I'm trying to argue that Fallschirmjaeger aren't supposed to man Stummels, and only Stummels, in-game. Apparently, it's not going through?

  14. 13 minutes ago, Combatintman said:

    Apart from the final sentence, what exactly are you saying here?

    If this is something related to the exotic cocktail of helmets, uniforms and Stummels then you have failed to make your case.

    Basically, there's Fallschirmjaeger manning Luftwaffe Panzer Division Stummels.

    I think there's something wrong with that. Because they appear only inside the Stummels. And because Fallschirmjaeger didn't historically appear in these armored units.

     

    You read my earlier posts about the subject, right? It would be obvious that you would be confused if you only read this post.

  15. 9 hours ago, Bulletpoint said:

    Set out on the 'Road to Montebourg' campaign. The version that comes with the game, not the revised version you can download. The revised version is much harder in some missions. Stay away from the 'Courage and Fortitude' campaign for the time being..

    Courage and Fortitude's first mission is relatively easy for what the next mission has for you...

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