Comments on: Reconstructing the elusive Sturmgeschütz E-75

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 23:14:47 +0000

Nah, it’d be way too front-heavy if it were actually built, which is why it’s infeasible, but then again, has that stopped WG before?

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:29:05 +0000

Some kind of weight distribution issue?

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:28:03 +0000

Ah, I worked on the original iteration. Might still have access to the restricted subforum, or at least did the last time I checked out of curiosity (a fair while ago admittedly). Went by the name “Watchman” there – this one’s actually a direct translation I adopted after A Certain Movie led to that nick getting reserved in only too many contexts.

Now that you mention it, you nick’s starting to ring some bells…

By: Zarax

Zarax — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:18:02 +0000

front casemate for rear transmission, central casemate for front transmission.
They actually tackled on this during jagdtiger development according to spielberger.

EDIT: I cannot reply further so I’ll write here:
It was mostly about having to extend the hull in some configuration as both engine and transmission took quite some space.

By: Zarax

Zarax — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:14:42 +0000

No way, I was a Punic historian for eb2

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:32:42 +0000

Why? It’s not like the superstructure was going to take too much more hull space or be too much heavier than the turret, right? What with being able to dispense with the basket and traverse machinery and all that.

Plus you seem to be contradicting yourself a bit now. :/

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 19:30:13 +0000

RTW mods? Whoa, Nostalgia Alley. Would you believe I was the “unit stats auditor” for Europa Barbarorum for a while?

By: Zarax

Zarax — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:48:52 +0000

Yes but that would give some trouble in case of rear transmission

By: Zarax

Zarax — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:47:01 +0000

Look for the extended cultures Rome total war mod, that’s my texturing on some units

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:39:18 +0000

From those 2 drawings, the first one looks like a less-mobile JPanther (1) on über-steroids.
Me likey :P