Rocky Balboa Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 I have a few battles I'm looking at creating that involved these vehicles on or around d+9. What are the chances we might see them for the kitchen sink "Battle Pack" module? Just getting my requests in .... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snake_eye Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Look here : http://www.battlefront.com/community/showthread.php?t=94339 They will be included for some of them in forecoming modules. When and how ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeeDog Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 I hope so. IMHO, battles with crappy tanks are really fun. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Yeah, something that a bazooka will actually work against would be nice. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky Balboa Posted February 1, 2011 Author Share Posted February 1, 2011 Yeah, something that a bazooka will actually work against would be nice. Michael Yep the zookas should work great against the Frenchy's and hopefully against the rear or flanks of the IV's and V's. Does anyone know if rifle grenades will be used by the US troops? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeeDog Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Considering that the functionality for rifle grenades is already in CMSF, and the fact that they were pretty widely used by U.S. infantry, I would be pretty surprised if BFC didn't include them in CMBN. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Rifle grenade launchers have been specifically mentioned in the equipment page of the CMN website. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeatEtr Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Speaking of captured vehicles, will they get a new skin to reflect the new paint job by it's captors? IIRC in CMSF there is no difference in the actual skin of the vehicle, just that it's either for blue or red. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Yep the zookas should work great against the Frenchy's and hopefully against the rear or flanks of the IV's and V's. Does anyone know if rifle grenades will be used by the US troops? Yes, US troops used rifle grenades in WW2. Especially through 44. I saw a clip from "Greatest Tank Battles" where a Panther crew member was taking about his tank getting imobilized and the Americans hitting it 20-30 times with rifle gernades before the fuel tank finally caught fire and they bailed out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeeDog Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 A pretty good (modern) clip of the M7 Grenade launcher and how it works: My synopsis: M203 it ain't. Looks pretty unwieldy, and since you have to load the rifle with blanks to fire it, there's some conversion time. I've read anecdotes suggesting that GIs assigned to carry & fire rifle grenades would carry two rifles -- one set up to fire grenades, and the other set up to fire bullets. Looks like ranging is pretty much a dead reckoning thing. But I've also read accounts that soldiers who practiced with it regularly could get pretty accurate. Anyway, I wouldn't expect GIs to run around popping off RGs in CMBN the way they do in CMSF. But it can certainly throw the grenade a heck of a lot farther than you can by hand, and I'd expect it was pretty useful in certain situations. Among other uses, I've read a lot of accounts of them being used in urban situations to fire grenades into upper floor windows of buildings, which is difficult to do by an ordinary hand toss. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLeftFlank Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I suspect "the Roach" had his WWII counterparts though, who were artistes at making their rifle grenades go right where they were needed. Maybe not as early as Normandy though, unless a few grizzled Italy vets were there. And another thread confirmed there will be underbelly shots, so, yeah, zooks will be useful. Nice little bunker busters too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeeDog Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Well, there certainly were quite a few "Grizzled Italy Vets" amongst American forces in Normandy -- 82nd Airborne and 1st Infantry Divisions probably being the most famous examples. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 I believe 2nd. Armored saw some action in North Africa too. I'd have to do some checking to be specific, but several of the infantry divisions that came in via the south of France were vets from the MTO and the same may be true of some in Normandy as well (the 9th.?). Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeeDog Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Yep; there were a number of other U.S. divisions that saw at least some action in NA and/or Italy that were in Normandy as well. The 82nd and the 1st were just the two U.S. divisions that came to mind right off the top of my head that were heavily engaged in NA, Sicily, Italy and Normandy. Long and short of it is: If you're looking to justify a few Crack GIs in Normandy with lots of combat experience, and the skill to do things like drop a rifle grenade into a pickle barrel at 100 yards, the precedent is there. Back to the original subject: Personally, the reason I find combats with relatively weak tanks so fun is that it generally requires much closer infantry-tank cooperation to get anything done when you don't have "Big HE" to throw around. It's very satisfying to succeed an assault with only 37mm HE and coax MGs in support. Don't get me wrong, it's fun to blow up anything on the map with a Tiger, but it's a nice change of pace to play with the "JV squad" occasionally. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 The 82nd and the 1st were just the two U.S. divisions that came to mind right off the top of my head that were heavily engaged in NA, Sicily, Italy and Normandy. Understood. Except IIRC the 1st. shipped out for England after Sicily. The 82nd. (or at least part of it) dropped into the Salerno beachhead though, so they hit all the high spots. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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