British Units

[CATTER]

I love the treches idea.

I think it will be a better way to protect against tank rushes....

Artillery and tank traps just aren't enough right now...

I read in GFW Magazine that the British artillery has movable howitzers... that will be really cool i think...

What they need to make is a bunker that can shoot rockets at tanks....

Just like the MG nest only it only shoots tanks... then u could bundle

an MG nest and rocket bunker together for a nice defense.....

Anyway cant wait until it comes out.

I will definitely be the British because i love to be the Allies.

Pesky Tiger tanks and Panzers.... LOL

[Kradath]

You forgot the honorable british enginners! :)

[is_don_is_good]

cant tanks just drive over trenches? by the way, haggis engineers ftw!

[Kradath]

They can, but the infantry is safe there and they could put stickys under the tank while it rolls over them.

[BoDyBaG2224]

Trenches will make British units take 0 dammage from artillery, tanks, and reduce the dammage that small arms fire does. However grenades I believe will do more dammage in the trenches. The movable artillery piece is the M7 Priest and will be my most anticipated unit. British Anti-Tank I believe is "Sappers"? And their weapon is the PIAT.

[Sir. Tasty]

Yer the PIAT was a shocking weapon, no where near enough penetration power to take on a panzer at a decent range.

[Idaeus]

But wont soldiers take MORE damage from artllery if the shell happens to hit right in the trench? Or will they just make that impossible to happen?

[BoDyBaG2224]

From what I've read arty will do nothing to men in trenches. I don't quite understand the thinking behind that but w/e.

[Cherni_95]

Yer the PIAT was a shocking weapon, no where near enough penetration power to take on a panzer at a decent range.
Relic will prolly make them better for gameplay. Just like they did with Shermans.

[is_don_is_good]

a arty shell hitting inside a trench is unlikely but possible. you might have the odd arty shell that makes it in :D
boo yeah!

[ThermalCrab]

it would look kinda weird when an arty shell hits a soldier right above him and he would be undamaged,but i guess this game is more arcade then realistic

[is_don_is_good]

still pretty realistic to me compared to other RTS games i've played :)

[AJED (G.Drew)]

does anybody know what the British AT gun is? is it the 17 pounder or the 25 pounder?

btw after doing some research on the Priest, i found this:

They did find problems with the M7 though, as the primary armaments were of American, not British standard. This meant that the M7s had to be supplied separately, causing logistical complications. It was a problem that was only truly resolved in 1944 on arrival of the 25-pounder-armed Sexton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexton_%28artillery%29).

so i could be said that the sexton should be the moble arty for Britain in OF, not the M7 Priest

[Cherni_95]

I know, I dont know if I can say:p

[BoDyBaG2224]

You can't unfortuently (and neither can I). However I can tell you that the Ordnance QF 25 pounder (or just 25-pounder or 25-pdr) was the major British field gun/howitzer that was introduced into service just before World War II to replace the 18 pounder Gun and 4.5 inch Howitzer. It was the British Army's primary artillery field piece into the 1960s. Smaller numbers served in training in the United Kingdom until the 1980s, while many Commonwealth of Nations countries used theirs until about the 1970s. It was considered by many to be the best field artillery piece of the war, combining high rates of fire with a reasonably lethal shell in a highly mobile piece. Since leaving UK service the 25 pounder has been used in combat during the Battle of Mirbat in 1972 in Oman. One of the last uses of the 25-pounder in combat was by the Cypriot National Guard during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus and by Kurds in N Iraq 2003. Ammunition for the weapon is currently produced by Pakistan Ordnance Factories

And that The Ordnance QF 17-pounder (or just 17-pdr) was a 76.2 mm (3") gun developed by the United Kingdom during World War II. It was used as an anti-tank gun on its own carriage, as well as equipping a number of British tanks. It was the best Allied anti-tank gun of the war. Used with the APDS shot it was capable of defeating all German armour. It was used to 'up-gun' some foreign-built vehicles in British service, notably the Sherman Firefly that gave British tank units the ability to hold their own with their German counterparts. In the anti-tank role it was replaced by the 120 mm BAT recoilless rifle after the war. As a tank gun it was succeeded by the 20 pounder.

All thanks to Wikipedia!

[is_don_is_good]

sexy :D

[AJED (G.Drew)]

wikipedia is awesome :D also where i got my information :P

[is_don_is_good]

thats where i get my daily info intake :D

[AJED (G.Drew)]

if i can remember correctly my Grandfather was in an artillery unit attached to an infantry section, and he was using the 25pdr, i think he was the driver of the quad that towed the gun and ammunition

[is_don_is_good]

cool, i wish i knew war veterans

[Sir. Tasty]

does anybody know what the British AT gun is? is it the 17 pounder or the 25 pounder?

btw after doing some research on the Priest, i found this:



so i could be said that the sexton should be the moble arty for Britain in OF, not the M7 Priest

25 P is a indirect heavy arty piece somewhat like the howitzer in Vcoh.



The sexton if i remember right was a 25p on a crusader/valentine hull, it had a large turret and so on and was not a huge success.

[is_don_is_good]

will there be british paratroopers? or just german paratroopers?

[BoDyBaG2224]

You'll have to wait and see!

[is_don_is_good]

zombie paratroopers!
haha, a must watch
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6cQ-kM3TBKc

[AJED (G.Drew)]

25 P is a indirect heavy arty piece somewhat like the howitzer in Vcoh.



The sexton if i remember right was a 25p on a crusader/valentine hull, it had a large turret and so on and was not a huge success.

i think ur thinking of the Bishop

Bishop (self-propelled arty, used in africa, not a great sucess)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IWM-E-17430-Bishop-SP-gun-19420925.jpg
Sexton (Canadian-built, replaced M7 Priest for British forces, was used for the rest of the war)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sexton.JPG

both used 25-pounder field guns as the main weapon

[is_don_is_good]

are there monkey soldiers in OF?

[Idaeus]

They can, but the infantry is safe there and they could put stickys under the tank while it rolls over them.

Is this confirmed? :)

[Kradath]

No, the second part is not confirmed. :(

[BoDyBaG2224]

Yo sé la respuesta ;)

[is_don_is_good]

agreed