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frinik · 03-17-10, 01:40 AM

Liadou, the tank used for the driving tutorial is the Mathilda tank.The British designed it as an infantry support tank.Therefore it is a lumbering vehicle and its speed is built-in the game based on historical data.Even in automatic drive it doesn't drive very fast.I have no clue why did Graviteam decide to use it as the tank of choice for the driving and firing tutorials rather than the T34....

By comparison, try driving the T34/76 in the first Soviet South campaign mission(Taranovka I think it is) and you'll see the difference. the T34 was very agile and fast.Likewise, the Panzer IVF2 on the German side is faster.

Anyway once you install all the numerous add-ons and mods whcih allow you to drive and fight in tanks like the KV1 and 2,the Mark III, the T34/85, the JS2/122, T26, T38, BT5 and 10 etc and the Panzer IVF1, Panzer III, the Panzer II, the Panzer jeager I, the Stug III, Tiger I and II, Hetzer, and Skfdz 251, 232 you'll see the difference in speed between the various vehicles.

A warning. once you get to the firing tutorial at one point your tank will not have shells loaded until you reach a certain point in the tutorial. Dont' take that as a bug but rather as an intended feature in the game( may be to teach fire discipline?).

03-17-10, 01:40 AM	#3
frinik Grey Wolf Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 897 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Mathilda Tank Liadou, the tank used for the driving tutorial is the Mathilda tank.The British designed it as an infantry support tank.Therefore it is a lumbering vehicle and its speed is built-in the game based on historical data.Even in automatic drive it doesn't drive very fast.I have no clue why did Graviteam decide to use it as the tank of choice for the driving and firing tutorials rather than the T34.... By comparison, try driving the T34/76 in the first Soviet South campaign mission(Taranovka I think it is) and you'll see the difference. the T34 was very agile and fast.Likewise, the Panzer IVF2 on the German side is faster. Anyway once you install all the numerous add-ons and mods whcih allow you to drive and fight in tanks like the KV1 and 2,the Mark III, the T34/85, the JS2/122, T26, T38, BT5 and 10 etc and the Panzer IVF1, Panzer III, the Panzer II, the Panzer jeager I, the Stug III, Tiger I and II, Hetzer, and Skfdz 251, 232 you'll see the difference in speed between the various vehicles. A warning. once you get to the firing tutorial at one point your tank will not have shells loaded until you reach a certain point in the tutorial. Dont' take that as a bug but rather as an intended feature in the game( may be to teach fire discipline?).