Hello and welcome back for our today´s Battlegroup Frontlines update.
Today we like to show you something you cannot drive or shoot with, but what is very important for the atmosphere on a map.
In the destroyed city of Stalingrad it is important to get cover and so you can use the old tram for cover or as perfect hideout for snipers. The tram was modeled and textured by our all- rounder Godfather.
We hope you like our work. In our Dev- Diary you can have a first look at the tram ingame in the red- square ("Fallen- Fighter square") map for Stalingrad.
Furthermore we like to show you our PanzerIII M, modeled by Koricus and textured by Postman778. The PanzerIII M provides better protection against hollow charges with the turret and hull skirts and additional armor at the gun base and hull front for the driver and radio operator.
Hope to see you back again for the next Battlegroup- Frontlines Update.
This time we want to show you the tank hunter Ferdinand SdKfz 184. The Ferdinand was build in the factory halls of Koricus and was ordered for camouflage paintings to the paint shop of Postman778. The model was applied with the camouflages of the 654th and 653rd tank hunter units "Kursk" from the year 1943.
The Ferdinand is based on the Tiger (P) which was inferior to the Henschel tiger. The already produced 90 chassis were converted into the tank hunter Ferdinand, who became the first tank with the legendary 8.8 cm-PaK 43 / 2 L/71 which was mounted in fixed superstructure.
The 90 tanks hunters were send to Kursk and Orel, and destroyed together 500 enemy tanks. However, the Ferdinand suffers from the hasty completion and the non eliminated teething troubles which many tanks had fallen victim to and often had to be blown up by the crew.
In addition, the Ferdinand had no close combat weapon which made him an easy victim for Russian infantry, if he was not backed up by own infantry support.
Only 48 vehicles survived the operation citadel and were send back to Germany where they were also equipped with a close combat weapon, a MG 34 in front of the radio operator’s seat, and later, under the name Tank Destroyer Elephant, send to the Italian front.
Hello and welcome to a new Battlegroup-Frontlines mod update. Today we would like to show you a soviet airplane, as well as first screenshots of our Stalingrad project and new infos about the patch.
The first thing, we like to show off, is the Lawotschkin Gudkow Gorbunow, abbreviated as "LaGG 3". It is a Soviet one-seater and it served in the Soviet air fleet since 1941. It reached speed limits up to 575 km/h and could flew in a maximum height of about 9000 metres. Later it was displaced by the Lawotschkin La-5 due to inferiority against the Me 109F. At that time 6.528 airplanes were produced.
Next, we want to tell you that you can find first screenshots of our map project "Stalingrad" in our "Developers Diary" in our forum. The screenshots contain pictures of the exported version of warehouse Univermag, but also screenshots of the Red Square and of Hotel Volgograd. You need to register in the forums in order to see the screenshots. In the near future we will show much more screenshots of the map in that forum. As an apetizer we present you one of these screenshots in the news.
Finally we like to tell you that we only need to fix two more vehicles in order to finish the work on the patch. As soon as they are finished we will start a strong betatesting to ensure a great release.
