Ryan Crierie Posted October 7, 2002 Share Posted October 7, 2002 The Twin Turreted T-26 M1931 was in one of my recent QBs and I had a grenadier platoon waste it from 5 ft away and then gun down the crew... does this mean we might see the M-3 Grant? [ October 06, 2002, 09:06 PM: Message edited by: Ryan Crierie ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auggy Posted October 7, 2002 Share Posted October 7, 2002 That seems to to have one turret with 2 mg's on it. Wish it was true. It's kinda like a wirblewind i guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Crierie Posted October 7, 2002 Author Share Posted October 7, 2002 Originally posted by Sir Augustus: That seems to to have one turret with 2 mg's on it. Wish it was true. It's kinda like a wirblewind i guess.No, look carefully at my ingame screenies... it's TWO turrets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auggy Posted October 7, 2002 Share Posted October 7, 2002 I don't have cmbb. Do the turrets move in unison or independently? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Crierie Posted October 7, 2002 Author Share Posted October 7, 2002 Originally posted by Sir Augustus: I don't have cmbb. Do the turrets move in unison or independently?Off to test..... Nope. They don't rotate independently.... [ October 06, 2002, 09:18 PM: Message edited by: Ryan Crierie ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 7, 2002 Share Posted October 7, 2002 AFVs in CM have always been able to independently target their MGs. I feel confident that the T-26 can use the same mechanism. The catch, unless I have completely misread the situation, with multi-turreted vehicles, is with gun armed turrets. For reasons I am not familiar with, the game engine isn't able to cope with more than one of these per vehicle. Probably has something to do with tracking shells... Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shatter Posted October 7, 2002 Share Posted October 7, 2002 I have not used the T-26, or have gone against as of yet, bit I am willing to bet it works as one turret. I am fairly sure BTS/BFC said it was not possible with the current game engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike Posted October 7, 2002 Share Posted October 7, 2002 I had a couple of these in a preview game - IIRC the 2 MG's are independantry targetd because they have different fields of fire, but as was pointed out above, so do current tank MG's. But perhaps MadMatt or Kwazy can give us a definitive answer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted October 7, 2002 Share Posted October 7, 2002 Originally posted by Michael emrys: AFVs in CM have always been able to independently target their MGs. I feel confident that the T-26 can use the same mechanism. The catch, unless I have completely misread the situation, with multi-turreted vehicles, is with gun armed turrets. For reasons I am not familiar with, the game engine isn't able to cope with more than one of these per vehicle. Probably has something to do with tracking shells... MichaelLuckily, the 75mm of the Maus is mounted co-axially with the main armament.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted October 7, 2002 Share Posted October 7, 2002 In game the turrets will not target independently. They rotate and target together; and I believe that they'll use up similar amounts of ammo at the same time (i.e. - both guns will shoot every time). I'm not sure if there are slightly offset fields of fire for each of the turrets. The inclusion of the T26-M31 does not mean that you'll be seeing other multi-turreted tanks in CMBB. In fact none of the patches should be providing vehicles that are not already in the game. The only thing they should be doing is replacing 'stand-in' 3D models and textures for vehicles already in the game. The code is set to track the hull position and the turret position. This allows the bow machinegun to target separately from the turret-mounted armament (coax and main gun). However the engine/code doesn't support tracking the movement of a second turret. A second 'main armament' probably complicates this further and may prevent the M3 Lee/Grant tanks from being modelled (two sets of fire calcs for non-MG armament on a vehicle may not be supported). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kestrl Posted October 7, 2002 Share Posted October 7, 2002 The T26 does have two turrets but neither rotates, only forward firing MG's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schrullenhaft Posted October 7, 2002 Share Posted October 7, 2002 This is correct. The turrets don't rotate, though they have a somewhat fairly wide angle of fire before the tank rotates to accomodate a target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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