Ts4EVER Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 One tip: The Volksgrenadiers often had to substitute missing StG44s with Italian made Beretta M38/42 smgs. These things are found in the mud of the Ardennes and Hurtgen Forest with surprising regularity (one mudfind can be seen at the Malmedy museum). Could be a nice idea for some infantry variety. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratdeath Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 I guess you will release it on the 10th of November so you all can enjoy Fallout 4, after a busy year crafting yet another awesome CMx2 family game. This fall is already crazy with all the upcoming releases! I am looking forward to add CMx2 "Bulge" into my insane gaming schedule! Thanks for the streams ChrisND, they are fun and informative! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weapon2010 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 will bulge have the option for vehicles to switch from snow skins to normal skins and vice versa? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockinHarry Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Since the game covers the period from october 44 to january 45, I´d assume that both texture variants will be present. But if textures change automatically by weather/ground setting, or if this will be an option in the unit editor, remains a good question. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Yes, both new late war textures and whitewash are in the game.About how/when its going to be displayed - so far that's been changed three times over(!) so I can't guarantee how it'll turn out by game release. Currently whitewash shows up in January when there's snow on the ground and earlier if the scenario designer chooses to add a [whitewash] tag choice when building his scenario. Really, Ardennes didn't get its first savage snowstorm until pretty late in December (28th?) so few people would be splashing whitewash on vehicles much earlier.Also lets remember future modules will give you Feb, March and April so whitewash is going to be around for awhile yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weapon2010 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 so this is a new feature?, because you cant do that in cmfi with snow on the ground, you need to dl a mod 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 CMFI module didn't include whitewash because the Italian theater wasn't big on applying whitewash. At least in the 43-44 timeframe. I believe the [whitewash] tag will be accepted in the CMFI module but I'm not 100% certain that it works as it ought. Since they weren't using it they didn't put much effort into it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ithikial_AU Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 (edited) Is Chris Project Lead for Bulge?Good video, and good to see such a variety of Shermans again. Edited September 23, 2015 by Ithikial_AU 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waclaw Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 I do not understand the excitement - I am disappointed, I hoped that it would bring a new quality, and we got some new models and lots of white color (it is not a texture snow) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aragorn2002 Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 (edited) Looking very promising. Thanks for sharing, Chris.Will the Grille be in btw? Edited September 23, 2015 by Aragorn2002 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Yes, both new late war textures and whitewash are in the game.About how/when its going to be displayed - so far that's been changed three times over(!) so I can't guarantee how it'll turn out by game release. Currently whitewash shows up in January when there's snow on the ground and earlier if the scenario designer chooses to add a [whitewash] tag choice when building his scenario. Really, Ardennes didn't get its first savage snowstorm until pretty late in December (28th?) so few people would be splashing whitewash on vehicles much earlier.Also lets remember future modules will give you Feb, March and April so whitewash is going to be around for awhile yet. Sounds like it will be auto-applied. So is there also a tag to remove whitewash if we are making a scenario in January where some tanks for some reason have not applied this? Not sure if it ever happened in real life, but nice to have flexibility... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Yes, hopefully the real-life cowardice and incompetence of the crews will be simulated as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagdtiger#Combat_historyRather dependent on the scenario designers and QB purchasers there... The BFC designers, I'd trust to do the research on any historical appearances, but I reckon you can expect to see any Jagdtigers showing up in QBs to be High or better motivation, since systems that can F-kill the beasts will be uncommon and you don't want the crew overestimating the vulnerability of such a (probably) expensive asset... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Rather dependent on the scenario designers and QB purchasers there... The BFC designers, I'd trust to do the research on any historical appearances, but I reckon you can expect to see any Jagdtigers showing up in QBs to be High or better motivation, since systems that can F-kill the beasts will be uncommon and you don't want the crew overestimating the vulnerability of such a (probably) expensive asset...I wonder if choosing good crew for these tanks will push the rarity through the roof, as surely experienced tank commanders would have been quite scarce at that stage of the war? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Rarity isn't (unfortunately) that complex. Making the soft factors higher will just increase the base cost by x% and that will then be multiplied by the rarity multiplier. Which should be fairly high to start with considering the few JagdTigers that were built, even though the ones surviving by the time of Bulge all (??) fought on that front. So increasing the soft factors will be expensive, cos the thing'll cost a pretty QB penny, I'd imagine, being so devastating, potentially, making the x% be a large number to be multiplied up. But unless they change the QB purchase mechanisms, there'll be no "additional" rarity for having a good crew. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baneman Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Spend 75% of your QB points on JagdTiger.Take a Gun Hit in the first 5 minutes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ts4EVER Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Jagdtigers weren't used in the battle of the bulge, only in Operation Nordwind in 1945. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisND Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Jagdtigers weren't used in the battle of the bulge, only in Operation Nordwind in 1945.The base game covers Jan and operation nordwind as well. (answers will be short due to me typing this on a phone) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisND Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Looking very promising. Thanks for sharing, Chris.Will the Grille be in btw? Yes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisND Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Is Chris Project Lead for Bulge?I picked up lead partway through development (while I was working on Black Sea), but yes I am now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisND Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 I guess you will release it on the 10th of November so you all can enjoy Fallout 4, after a busy year crafting yet another I'm just glad that XCOM 2 got delayed to Feb, otherwise I would have had to quit Battlefront in order to play it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baneman Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 I'm just glad that XCOM 2 got delayed to Feb, otherwise I would have had to quit Battlefront in order to play it. Ooh, there's an XCOM 2 coming .... sweet This board is a mine of info 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASL Veteran Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 I'm just glad that XCOM 2 got delayed to Feb, otherwise I would have had to quit Battlefront in order to play it. Oooh Oooh Ooooh! I'm going to have to look into this. I can't get enough of that game and I've probably played through it about fifteen times or more. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtsjc1 Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 Jagdtigers weren't used in the battle of the bulge, only in Operation Nordwind in 1945.I thought that myself. Though there seems to be some uncertainty about it. From what I've read they were to be transported to the front but didn't make it in time and that's why they appeared in Nordwind. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weapon2010 Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 From the Encyclopedia of German Tanks.Chamberlain, Doyle, Jentz. pg144"The Jagdtiger was issued to only two combat units.Panzerjagerabteilung 653 and schwere Panzerjagerabteilung 512.The 653rd was employed on the western front during the Ardennes offensive,and the later with the 512th in the defence of Germany proper,in such actions as the Remagen Bridgehead on 10 March 1945"77 produced from July 44 to March 45.The Jagdtiger mounting the 88mm L/71 was designated but never produced.ok , so I have a little grog in me. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weapon2010 Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 From Panzerworld, a slight contradiction, so who knows the real truth. "S.Pz.Jäg.Abt.653 was intended to be deployed during the Ardennes offensive, but did not reach the front in time to see any action. The unit was then assigned to 17. SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division "Götz von Berlichingen", with the intension of deploying it during the Nordwind offensive. Due to mechanical problems, however, only three Jagdtigers were operational at the start of the offensive." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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