I love playing with the STUG at the moment it provides quite a challenge the only thing i really want to change as soon as possible is the camo, it just looks too much out of place, especially in normandy where if anything was spotted from the air it would be obliterated.
Since its being ported from Warthunder spots camo would be the most accurate (same as almost all other german tanks in the normandy campaign)
I would rather they give it its MG over a camo change personally.
it has the MG portion modeled too which is the worst part.
second preference for me, i would love an MG but still rather see camo first.
yeah before it came out i really tought we would get an mg firing same as M8 scott or M10 where mg fires when commander is out. maybe they will add it in the future , we can only hope
Give it the rotating MG on top
berlin maybe, normandy no
it has a super low ammo count, no machine gun and it’s a casemate TD with no better penetration on a Jumbo than a panther and priced at 57 dollars. I don’t know what they were thinking with this vehicle and it’s a shame because the STUG is cool.
As the other use said, it also has some of the worst camouflage ever to grace Normandy.
If you were going to realease a vehicle with no MG at least make it the stuh42 so it could nuke stuff with it’s 105.
For some reason the correct mantlet is on the Ausf. G, but no historical Coaxial MG34.
The ammo count is right, though most actual commanders of this TD would always stuff extra ammo inside.
Unfortunately none of my books tell me when it got its roof mounted MG34 exactly.
i know its wiki, but it does state all the updates stug got.
with this pic as : stug 3 G on normandy.
and i quote:
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From December 1942, a square machine gun shield for the loader was installed, allowing an MG34 to be factory installed on a StuG for the first time. When stowed this shield folded back, partially overlapping the front half of the loader’s hatch cover. A curved protrusion welded to the backside of the shield pushed the shield forward as the front half of the loader’s hatch cover was opened and guided the hatch cover to naturally engage a latch point on the shield thus, supporting the shield in its deployed position without exposing the loader to hostile forward fire. F/8 models had machine gun shields retro-fitted from early 1943. The loader’s machine gun shield was later replaced by rotating machine gun mount that could be operated by the loader inside the vehicle sighting through a periscope. In April 1944, 27 of them were being field tested on the Eastern front. Favourable reports led to installation of these “remote” machine gun mounts from the summer of 1944.
From October 1943, G versions were fitted with the Topfblende pot mantlet (often called Saukopf “Pig’s head”) gun mantlet without a coaxial mount. This cast mantlet, which had a sloped and rounded shape, was more effective at deflecting shots than the original boxy Kastenblende mantlet that had armour varying in thickness from 45 mm to 50 mm. The lack of large castings meant that the trapezoid-shape boxy mantlet was also produced until the very end. A coaxial machine gun was first added to boxy mantlets, from June 1944, and then to cast Topfblende, from October 1944, in the middle of “Topfblende” mantlet production. With the addition of this coaxial machine gun, all StuGs carried two MG 34 machine guns from autumn of 1944. Some previously completed StuGs with a boxy mantlet had a coaxial machine gun hole drilled to retrofit a coaxial machine gun; however, Topfblende produced from November 1943 to October 1944 without a machine gun opening could not be tampered with (…)
interesting to know about the ammo count. I wonder if the other vehicles are correct as well? I know the jumbo carries an impressive amount of rounds.
Yeah I saw pictures of it but didn’t denote what production run it was.
So I didn’t want to post what I saw on wiki because well…wiki.
Usually when I need to confirm something, I hit the books.
If it was 20 years ago I would have asked my Grandfather.
jagdpanzer IV in berlin (the event tank )
acording to tank museum content i saw few years ago, its the early version (still have the mg port on the driver side) and extra metal around the manlet had 79 rounds avaiable.
the game is correct atleast here. i dont know about the other tanks
The only non historical part is the fact it only had 2 types. But 44 rds is accurate, though some of the ones in Tunisia had double that.
I’ll have to check the other tanks in my books at some point.
hopefully they offer some “veterancy” function so that other vehicles can have this lived-in look. The event vehicles have looked really nice. Always thought giving the jag panzer to Berlin was a super odd choice but whatever.
@120062891 what books are you referencing?
are you refering to this somehow?
i dont even know how or what could they get improved without getting in “unreal” realms.
or more about “skins” with propz around them?
Even though it was front heavy, mounting tracks anywhere was historical practice.
referencing an unlockable cosmetic, customization process for regular campaign vehicles.
yy. i kinda edited my post since as early version IV was actually that way the tracks were placed,
on latter models (after around 300 tank produced) they started to be placed behind.
I have so many, when I get my new bookcase ill take a picture. It will be faster,.lol.
I’ve always preferred those to wiki. Wiki is cool, but when I was growing up it wasn’t in existence. So I have lots of material.
oh yeah. i agree… hopefully one day.
even the gold panther in berlin with the grenades/soldier gear feels actually amazing/probably a real panther was actually photografed that way.
