03-06-2010, 10:54 PM
EDIT: managed to find pictures.
Finding it hard to even make a scratch on those IS-2:s, I was wondering why the late-war StugIII Ausf.M (M for Crotale Missiles) is not featured in the game? :(
StugIII Ausf.M pictured here:
![[Image: 2007_53101805.jpg]](http://i900.photobucket.com/albums/ac206/phn_at_cs/2007_53101805.jpg)
No, it is not a photoshop. See yourself: http://www.andreaslarka.net/ps531018/2007_53101805.jpg
From Wiki:
"Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. M
StuG III Ausf. M was a little known late war version of the popular assault gun developed by the Nazi Germany as a result of their work to improve the popular Nebelwerfer weapons system.
Once the 21 cm Nebelwerfer 42 rocket was introduced in 1942 with a longer range (7,850 metres (8,580 yd)) and a simpler design, the work commenced to create a version of the weapons system with a means to guide the missile against specific targets. The guidance was implemented via means of a simple wire control system, limiting the range of the weapon effectivily to 750 metres (833 yards).
In spring 1944, when the engineers experimented in using the new APCR warhead on the new, guided nebelwerfer rocket they knew they had stumbled into something very deadly.
The first weapon systems were completed for the time of the D-Day, but due to absolute Allied air superiority the decision was made to test the system elsewhere instead.
With the Stalin's Fourth Strategic offensive commencings against Finland, the opportunity to test the system was duely noticed, and in the night of June 14 1944 S/S Kraken steamed to Pori harbor, where the weapons were quickly installed into a battalion of StuG III Ausf G assault guns, with a new version number given as Ausferung M, or, Version Missiled Rocket.
The assault gun battalion gained a high success rate with the new weapons system, but as the Finns finally were able to make peace with Soviets, the know-how for making this fearsome weapon was lost as the engineers were smuggled to neutral Sweden for safety.
The engineers, of French origin, having been used as forced labour, migrated back to liberated France, and started a company of their own, Mistral, known for their Crotale series of missiles even today.
Amazingly, the weapons systems was so advanced there has been little need for modernizing the weapon, as can be seen in this picture, taken in Paris Air Show in 2007."
![[Image: 800px-Crotale_NG_P1220851.jpg]](http://i900.photobucket.com/albums/ac206/phn_at_cs/800px-Crotale_NG_P1220851.jpg)
I can't believe both the Talonsoft and Matrix guys have missed this one??? :mad:
Finding it hard to even make a scratch on those IS-2:s, I was wondering why the late-war StugIII Ausf.M (M for Crotale Missiles) is not featured in the game? :(
StugIII Ausf.M pictured here:
No, it is not a photoshop. See yourself: http://www.andreaslarka.net/ps531018/2007_53101805.jpg
From Wiki:
"Sturmgeschütz III Ausf. M
StuG III Ausf. M was a little known late war version of the popular assault gun developed by the Nazi Germany as a result of their work to improve the popular Nebelwerfer weapons system.
Once the 21 cm Nebelwerfer 42 rocket was introduced in 1942 with a longer range (7,850 metres (8,580 yd)) and a simpler design, the work commenced to create a version of the weapons system with a means to guide the missile against specific targets. The guidance was implemented via means of a simple wire control system, limiting the range of the weapon effectivily to 750 metres (833 yards).
In spring 1944, when the engineers experimented in using the new APCR warhead on the new, guided nebelwerfer rocket they knew they had stumbled into something very deadly.
The first weapon systems were completed for the time of the D-Day, but due to absolute Allied air superiority the decision was made to test the system elsewhere instead.
With the Stalin's Fourth Strategic offensive commencings against Finland, the opportunity to test the system was duely noticed, and in the night of June 14 1944 S/S Kraken steamed to Pori harbor, where the weapons were quickly installed into a battalion of StuG III Ausf G assault guns, with a new version number given as Ausferung M, or, Version Missiled Rocket.
The assault gun battalion gained a high success rate with the new weapons system, but as the Finns finally were able to make peace with Soviets, the know-how for making this fearsome weapon was lost as the engineers were smuggled to neutral Sweden for safety.
The engineers, of French origin, having been used as forced labour, migrated back to liberated France, and started a company of their own, Mistral, known for their Crotale series of missiles even today.
Amazingly, the weapons systems was so advanced there has been little need for modernizing the weapon, as can be seen in this picture, taken in Paris Air Show in 2007."
I can't believe both the Talonsoft and Matrix guys have missed this one??? :mad:
