I'm thinking of something like in the Stalker Anomaly, where the game is basically all about scavenging and exploring progressively more dangerous areas, but there still is something like a basic storyline with simple thematic quests you can follow if you want to.
They fire the bombard, and a huge cannonball flies straight into the castle, smashing one of the towers. A few moments later, a great bang sounds from the castle, and a cannonball flies right into the besiegers' camp.
Again, the besieging army fires at the castle. Part of the castle wall crumbles, but the defenders soon fire back at the enemy. Several tents and fortifications are hit and destroyed in the siege camp, but the soldiers relentlessly reload the bombard.
Explosion. Thick smoke. The castle is hit again.
And then there is complete silence.
A minute. Two. Ten. Twenty...
Nothing happens.
After some more time, a single soldier appears on the castle battlements.
"Why aren't you firing?" he shouts.
"The ball is on your side!"
I kinda like the tank gameplay in this game. It's basically the only way to enjoy some unique and lesser-known tank and vehicle variants in a realistic SP game. But every time I jump into Direct Control mode in a Conquest or Campaign mission, I feel like I'm missing out on the tactical level, so I mostly use Direct Control only for small maneuvers or aiming adjustments.
Do you know if there's a custom mission designed with DC mode in mind?
KV-8 was a variant of the KV-1 modified to carry the ATO-41 flamethrower. The flamethrower replaced the coaxial DT machine gun and to accomodate the fuel tanks, the original 76mm gun and its ammunition storage was replaced with a 45mm. In order to conceal this weakness, the new smaller gun was "hidden" in a fake 76mm barrel.
Let's say I want to roleplay Winter War as the USSR. I'll stop researching new stuff once I get to BT-7s and T-28s and era-appropriate types of AT guns, infantry etc. Will the enemy also stop or am I eventually going to face T-34s and ISU-152s?
I like to go on 30–40 km day hikes, and I prefer to travel light, carrying as little as possible. I usually pack a few bread rolls or some bread, a piece of cheese, maybe a can of tuna, some fruit, and two or three muesli bars. Sometimes I bring an MRE just for the cool factor, but they're not cheap here, and I prefer something a bit healthier.
What food do you guys bring and eat on your hikes?
Let's imagine that Italy is released as the new faction. Although they fought on the Eastern front as well, they are mainly known for their campaigns in North Africa and Medditerranean, which would requrire brand new maps, assets and most importantly new opposing faction - a complete reskin of the Commonwealth, which itself is a DLC faction.
But here comes the main concern - what if I don't own any of the DLCs and want to get the new faction one? Can I face the UK or USA if I don't own the DLCs?
Shouldn't the newly released nation be one of those that fought *primarily* on the Eastern Front so that they can easily be used with just the base game?
Ok, so I'm a complete noob. I bought the game recently and have around 30 hours in various Conquest battles. I decided to give multiplayer a go. And holy shit. 1v1. Two zones captured by the enemy before I even managed to get one squad near the objective. Anything I send to the battle gets immediately killed. Infantry massacred by an MG position I cannot see, tank or armored car destroyed by an AT grenade or hidden AT gun. It's not even close. I'm unable to do literally anything.
And the more points I lose, the more the enemy has. The battle usually ends in like 5 minutes and it's just a typical coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb scenario.
How do you guys do it? How do you micromanage so many units at once?
This game needs captured skins for every vehicle. Not just different camouflage schemes (such as grey Beutepanzers and Soviet-green Panzer IIIs), but especially makeshift field paint jobs, with the original markings hastily covered over and replaced by crudely painted symbols of their new operators.
It's really weird and somewhat immersion-breaking when you capture, for example, a Soviet tank, then use it in combat in the next mission and it's still displaying its original red stars.
I've read somewhere that the developers rejected this idea because it would require too much work for too little return, but I think it could make for a great DLC.
Ok, so this is quite frustraiting. Defense mission, I managed to relatively easily fend off the enemy attacks, the mission is won and over and now it's time to repair and scavenge whatever equipment and vehicles are left on the battlefield. The problem is there are several enemy howitzers, AA and AT guns scattered behind the enemy lines. And whenever my infantry of vehicle shows up just remotely close to them, it immediately get's obliterated by the enemy fire. Infantry or a vehicle stops to fire at one of the AT guns? Boom! 152mm shell right in the middle of the formation. Trying to flank the heavy artillery? Burst of 37mm AA fire wipes my guys out.
I manage to defend the point against waves of tanks and infantry with minimal losses, but I end up losing everything in the end to one 45mm, one 37mm flak and one or two heavy howitzers.
It's early in the morning, and he's watching the calm water. Slowly, a small boat emerges from the thick morning fog. The fisherman recognizes the two people on board: his old friend, Pyotr Ivanovich, casually leaning back on a bench and smoking a pipe, and Pyotr's wife, rowing furiously, drenched in sweat and on the verge of exhaustion.
"Where are you going so early this morning, Pyotr Ivanovich?" the fisherman shouts.
"I'm taking my wife to the maternity hospital in town!"
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