What i would have liked for Normandy anniversary is for the Vickers British paratroopers to get their box fixed, they have the American set of weapons.
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I admit, Iwas not expecting this. And actual good event with good rewards. Good work there!
Hip fire no recoil but aiming down sights I’m just getting the type hei treatment
@MajorMcDonalds Will there be a US military squad returning to the scene tomorrow? We need reinforcements.
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same syndrome as with MKb 42 (W) and Fedorov MG (before recent changes) - behaves unnecessarily erratic. You barely have any control over the horizontal recoil.
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This would make for the best Jap/US event ever
Very cool event, I certainly wont be complaining, saying that,
Onto complaining, a few more legacy squads or more event squads would be very very nice consider how hard it can be to fill line ups at all BRs
a bit ironic to " commemorate " d-day with things that weren’t used there.
but i’m not going to be the veekay of the situation.
as it goes for the event, nice rewards.
it’s nice to finally bring to life a vehicle that have been sitting in the editor since forever.
regarding the alecto, i can’t quite deny i would have preferred the AEC armored car instead, considering that has been sitting there from a long time ago just like the sturmpanzer.
but a new vehicle is always welcome too.
and it’s unique nevertheless.
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Hopefully next time we will get Churchill AVRE
Hey Darkgaijin it’s time to give us some free Churchills for once. Germany could get it’s Brumbar at BR3.
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British Churchill Mark III AVRE Tank at the Tank Museum, Bovington
These specially equipped Churchill tanks were fitted with a Petard 290 mm Spigot Mortar that was capable of projecting a 40 lb (18kg) round with a 28 pound HE high explosive warhead at an enemy fortification. The round was given the nickname of the ‘flying dustbin’ (‘trashcan’ for all our American readers) because of its shape. It had an effective range of only 80 yards so it had to get close to its target. The mortar replaced the standard 6pdr main gun.
It could not be reloaded from inside the turret. The gunner had to travers the turret so the gun was over the co-driver’s hatch. Only the hands of the co-driver are exposed as he pushed a new round into the Petard barrel. The mortar barrel was ‘broken’ so the front section would bend and point down into the body of the tank. The hatch had been changed to a sliding hatch to help with this loading procedure.
Apart from the Royal Armoured Corps Tank driver the crew of a Churchill AVRE tank was tank from the Royal Engineers. It was envisioned that the Churchill tank would also act as an armoured personnel carrier taking the crew safely to locations on the battlefield where their skills as demolition experts could be used by the placing of explosive charges. The crew would dismount from the tank to complete these assignments.
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Surviving British Churchill Mark III AVRE Tank
British Churchill Mark III AVRE Tank at the Tank Museum, BovingtonBy D-day on the 6th of June 180 Churchill Mark III and Mark IV tanks had been converted to AVRE tanks. Notice how thick the additional armour plating was on the front of the turret. This helped the tank get close enough to its target to be able to fire its high explosive short range shell. This additional armour could withstand a hit from the powerful German 88 mm anti tank gun. The hull BESA machine gun was retained for close support and self defence.
The fully restored Bovington Tank Museum Churchill Mk.III AVRE has a few late and post war features that were not fitted to the tanks that landed in Normandy on D-day. These include the three raised panels on the sides of the large hull air intake trunks and the later raised vision Commander’s cupola, also included is the full appliqué armour suite for the hull and turret fitted to later Mk.III/IVs but again rarely seen on the initial Mk.IIIs.
Churchill AVRE smashes D-Day beach wall
Memory of German Unteroffizier (corporal) Henrik Naube, 325th Infantry Division, Normandy 6th June 1944 - The Landing craft were unloading tanks at this point and these were Churchill types. We had been trained to identify Allied planes and tank types, but these Churchills had very short, wide guns that I had not seen in our training pictures. Three of these Churchills flopped down onto the sand and began to move along up the incline to the sea wall.One of them hit a teller mine, and its track was blown off. That tank revolved in circles hopelessly, spraying sand. Then it came to a halt, one of our 88mm guns opened fire and hit it through the side with an armour piercing shell. My God, that caused a huge explosion in the tank; the top of the hull split open, and burning fuel poured out from the engine decks.
The other two Churchills were also hit; one was knocked over on its side when it ran over the edge of a sand dune. The other was hit repeatedly on the turret but it progressed to the sea wall and it fired its gun repeatedly at the concrete. It caused huge explosions there, and the sea wall disintegrated and collapsed, forming a mound of rubble.
British Churchill Mark III AVRE Tank at the Tank Museum, Bovington
This was presumably what the British wanted, because their men began to rush up this pile of debris and emerge onto the civilian esplanade that ran along the rear of the beach. This meant that they were now on the point of entering the town itself.
The British began to fire on the bunker with rounds from more Churchills that had just landed. This was very inaccurate, with the shells landing haphazardly around us, but the explosions were enormous. In effect, we were blinded by smoke and dust from this shelling, and we decided to cease firing, to conserve our machine gun ammunition and let the gun cool until the smoke cleared.
The British began to fire on the bunker with rounds from their Churchills; this was very inaccurate, with the shells landing haphazardly around us, but the explosions were enormous. In effect, we were blinded by smoke and dust from this shelling, and we decided to cease firing, to conserve our ammunition and let the gun cool until the smoke cleared.
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Event’s great, just not fun getting rolled again and again as germany
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And you were the one who opposed KV2 coming to BR3? Then you claim to be neutral in the forum?
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75mm armor and 30 second reload of the KV2 would be too strong at BR3, but 100mm of angled armor and 15 second reload of the Brummbär is fine? Totally not biased at all…
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Btw.
Can you please rename the German vehicle to sturmpanzer II Bison?
Literally nobody is going to memorize the gibberish classification it is using now.
It’s like using “PzKpfw V Ausf. A” instead of “Panther A”.
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One a TT vehicle and another one is an event vehicle. You can have 2x KV-2 and i bet DF would put both of them at BR3. KV-2 1939 would be fine at BR3 while fighting vs BR3 but vs BR2 it would be as unbearable as fighting KV-1 with your crappy long 50mm/short 75mm.
Want KV-2 x2 at BR3? Then better put Stug 3 F at BR2 as Marder of BR2 is too suicidal with it’s exposed top/back/sides.
And how do you think BR2 Soviets would manage against the Brummbär?? I’m pretty sure they don’t have a single tank at BR2 that has over 100mm of pen, even at BR3 they only have the T34-57, M1 bazooka wouldn’t be able to pen it either. You’re delusional if you think Brummbär would be balanced against BR2 but at the same time think that KV-2 wouldn’t.
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They can add Su-122, SU-57 and zis-30 they have more than enough pen to destroy over 100mm of armor. It’s Gaijin’s problem that they have barely added any new TD of the Soviets and ones that are in a TT are mostly premium.
And it’s not like you Soviets doesn’t have amazing planes at BR2 that can spam 3x bombers with 6x 100kg bombs one after anther. Guerilla after buff also could be useful.
You really are a clown.
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Now if we could only get the 6th MKB 35/III
And Brummbar’s armor is much better than the KV2, it also has a better reload time.
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