My Name

[Erwin Rommel]

I Shall command all the Third Reich Armor here now.

By General Erwin Rommel

[Cybermat47]

I have no objections.

[Eichhörnchen]

I Shall command all the Third Reich Armor here now.

By General Erwin Rommel

"I might have..."


A. Hitler esq

[33lima]

I Shall command all the Third Reich Armor here now.

By General Erwin Rommel

Fine, but I hope you make a better job of it than the last bloke:

http://combatace.com/index.php?app=gallery&module=images&section=img_ctrl&img=29008&file=max

[33lima]

Granted, it was partly my fault, but even so...

http://combatace.com/index.php?app=gallery&module=images&section=img_ctrl&img=29010&file=max

http://combatace.com/index.php?app=gallery&module=images&section=img_ctrl&img=29009&file=max

[Eichhörnchen]

Those are brilliant screenshots; I've got to get into this tank-simming but I'm still trying to get hold of a disc copy of Steel Fury.

[33lima]

Those are brilliant screenshots; I've got to get into this tank-simming but I'm still trying to get hold of a disc copy of Steel Fury.

Thanks Eichhornchen. Sf '42 CDs seem a tad expensive these days but it's cheap enough online at Gamersgate:

http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/DD-SFURY/steel-fury-kharkov-1942

Incidentally the mission in the screenies is an adaption (by modder Lockie I think) of the real-life action described here, in which Lt Zinoviy Kolobanov ambushed the spearhead of 6th Panzer Division in August 1941, a Red Army version of the Battle of Villers Bocage with a KV-1 instead of a Tiger.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinoviy_Kolobanov

I just played the mission again and this time there was no real panzer pile-up, although some of the Germans got through and I had to leave my nice safe tank scrape and reposition to assist a second KV and some infantry in destroying the enemy.

http://combatace.com/index.php?app=gallery&module=images&section=img_ctrl&img=29011&file=max

It was a bit of a massacre in the end, with the panzers and soft-skins smashed and the dismounted infantry mown down in the open, tho by the time it was over I had used up all my AP rounds and was left lobbing HE and even shrapnel shells at the last German tanks.

http://combatace.com/index.php?app=gallery&module=images&section=img_ctrl&img=29014&file=max

The second KV had a slightly less exciting time and the crew quickly unbuttoned to admire our handiwork.

http://combatace.com/index.php?app=gallery&module=images&section=img_ctrl&img=29012&file=max

Back on the causeway, the original ambush site was strewn with wrecked or immobilised German armour.

http://combatace.com/index.php?app=gallery&module=images&section=img_ctrl&img=29013&file=max

http://combatace.com/index.php?app=gallery&module=images&section=img_ctrl&img=29015&file=max

There are few things as satisfying in a tank sim as going for a spin in a nice big tank with lots of armour and a decent gun and smashing up other, less able enemies!

[Eichhörnchen]

More great pics and thanks for the links; I'm not a player of downloaded or online games, I'm afraid, so restricted to boxed products. That's why my subsimming has terminated with sh4, though I've no complaints since I have the "Gold" edition and access to the vast subsim mods library.

I'll be coming over to check on this thread now, but I do spend most of my time mucking about on the General Topics forum.

[Eichhörnchen]

Meanwhile, vot hass happened to the herr General? Hass he locked himself in the Khazi??

[33lima]

Meanwhile, vot hass happened to the herr General? Hass he locked himself in the Khazi??

Or has there, perhaps, been a minor contretemps en route to supreme power? You know what it's like, take your eyes off the road for a second and next thing you know, your Panther's belly up at the bottom of an inconveniently-sited anti-tank ditch.

http://combatace.com/index.php?app=gallery&module=images&section=img_ctrl&img=29090&file=max

[Eichhörnchen]

We've got a lot of very deep dykes alongside roads where we live (Lincolnshire) and this is a familiar sight, though not usually with this type of vehicle...