Comments on: Changes in Historical Battles (based on Test)

By: kerradeph

kerradeph — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 05:08:26 +0000

it’s because in normal battles, you’re facing targets that most of the time, you either can’t pen or have a hard time penning. the E25 is fun because of the mobility, but the gun requires the speed and mobility, and it’s the same gun on the PzV/M10, but with an even lower ROF.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 21:25:15 +0000

This. ATM the French are pretty literally lacking half their early-war lineup.

By: Bluenose

Bluenose — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:46:57 +0000

It’s still a game, There needs to be balance or there’s no point in one side playing at all.

By: turarwanaa

turarwanaa — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:14:42 +0000

That would give a reason to buy back a B1bis. :)

By: Legiondude

Legiondude — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:56:38 +0000

They need more French low tiers first, which aren’t on the way this year

By: Mitchell Julien

Mitchell Julien — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:40:31 +0000

In early 1945 the Germans launched a counterattack against soviet forces advancing into Hungary. The fight around lake Balaton became the last battle in which Germans used panzer forces in large numbers. Units included 6th SS Panzer Army and Second Panzer Army. In 1945 Panzer division in the area had following numbers:

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=147053

By: Mitchell Julien

Mitchell Julien — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:33:34 +0000

After doing research, I can confirm that there were no jagdtigers on the eastern front.

“Only two heavy antitank battalions (schwere Panzerjäger-Abteilung), numbered 512 and 653, were equipped with Jagdtigers, with the first vehicles reaching the units in September 1944. About 20% were lost in combat; most were destroyed by their own crews when abandoned, chiefly due to mechanical breakdowns or lack of fuel in the desperate final stages of the war.”

After doing some research regarding the battle of Lake Balaton , I was able to find a website showcasing the armored casualties of that battle.

http://englishrussia.com/2012/01/12/equipment-of-the-balaton-battle/

From what I see , it seems that they had Tiger II’s , Tiger H, Panthers, Jagdpanthers, Stugs , jagdPZIV and hezters.

Probably some PIV’s in there also…

By: Doddy

Doddy — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:09:10 +0000

People will never understand this, they always think scouts are usless “because view range”. T-70s base camo alone reduces Tigers view range to 300. The camo skill boosts the T-70s camo far better than recon or situational awareness boosts the Tigers view range, so more skills wll always help the scouts more (the heavies are less likley to train view range skills anyway. Similarly the scout is more likely to have a camo net than the Tiger is to have binos. Then of course there i sthe bush the T-70 is hiding behind.

The problem comes with how the Germans can take a defensive posture in the battle (despite it historically being a masisve German assault) meaning a scout has to move forward to spot them. So hard to stay in cover, no camo net active vs tigers who are stationary, probably behind a bush and if they have binos they will be active.

In the Kursk battle it should be assault mode, this would counteract the Germans superiority since they would be advancing against th su-152s with their forward passive scouts rather than the other way round.

Ardennes is much the same, it was a German assault, they should be the ones having to attack thus reducing their advantage over the US since they will be advancing into the tds hidden fire rather than just turtling behind the north bank and popping tier 6s that pop their heads over to try and kill them.

Balaton was a German offensive as well, but i don’t know much about it either in rl or in the game.

German heavy tanks in defensive positions were extremely powerful, throw them into an assault and the enemy can pick them apart, hence why all these offensives were you know, German defeats. These Historical battles play like the allies are the attacker rather than the defender and that more than anything else puts them at a disadvantage which in turn means the number of German tanks needs reduced which means the battles are smaller.

I know people don’t like assault mode but I think it would solve many of HBs problems.

By: 9.0 – Historical Battle Perspective | For The Record

9.0 – Historical Battle Perspective | For The Record — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:57:19 +0000

[...] further development. Now, in 9.0, we will not introduce any serious changes. There will be just minor corrections. But for the following future versions, we gathered several interesting [...]

By: Doddy

Doddy — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:46:05 +0000

It did a good job as scout tbh, i finished top xp in a few battles with it. It was better than T-70 anyway, you could do the T-70s job with one of the small tds and still have a gun that could actually do something.