Normandy Map and the future of Tank Crew?

[Gedm]

Apologies to the Dev's if this has been addressed, but I'm wondering if we are going to get thrown a bone with the new Normandy Map?  Maybe a new Tiger or some British and American armor? 

[Enceladus828]

If FC is getting a second installment then TC therefore needs a second installment as well.

[ShampooX]

well seeing as it took the better part of 9 months to get two AA trucks I wouldn't expect anything that big coming down the pipe too soon.  Me?  My hopes are small - I just want a few of the already existing user made cammo's loaded into the game.  

[JV44HeinzBar]

9 hours ago, NervousPervert said:

  My hopes are small - I just want a few of the already existing user made cammo's loaded into the game.  

+1

[Leroy13]

Somebody want germany tanks with machine gun on turret. Smoke grenade launcher will be fine too.

Edited August 30, 2021 by Leroy13

[Thad]

On 8/27/2021 at 10:10 PM, Gedm said:

Apologies to the Dev's if this has been addressed, but I'm wondering if we are going to get thrown a bone with the new Normandy Map?  Maybe a new Tiger or some British and American armor? 

 

No, I don't want or expect no damn bone thrown out to us, armor wise. I want thick tbone steaks and BBQ ribs.

 

My minimum expectations:

 

Allied:

M5 Stuart tanks

Sherman (Firefly)

M8 Greyhounds 37mm gun, 50cal MG (lightly armored reconnaissance vehicles) Suggest AI controlled at least.
M7 HMC(Howitzer Motor Carriage- Priest) M2/A1 Howitzer , 11,000 meter max range
Towed M1A1 155mm howitzers (20,000 meter max range)
M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyers
M3 half-tracks

80mm Mortar Units
Bazooka Units

 

Axis:

 

Tiger I
Panzerfaust Units

8cm Morter Sections,

12cm Granatwerfer Morter units. (6,000 meters)

Dug in Infantry Units
Sturmgelchutz Assault Guns. 10.5cm howitzers

 

 

[Feathered_IV]

You forgot the Hetzer and the Jagdpanther

[Na-zdorovie]

man i would love the smoke launchers to work............well only for my tanks :), 

[Thad]

I'd love to see these scout cars added to TC for the player.

 

Allied M20

 

Axis SdKfz234Puma

 

The Russians already have a scout car. (AI only)

 

Edited September 15, 2021 by Thad

[Mm1ut1]

I only play two computer games, The IL-2 Great Battles series and the Combat Mission series. I strongly recommend the latter when you need your armor fix. Lots of YouTube videos on it if you are interested (Videos by A guy named Double Vision are my favorites).
 

[JG1_Wittmann]

It would be ice to have some more units in game for sure.   Right now, in game in non player for we have scout cars, BA10M, BA64,SDKFZ222, for TD's we have Marder, Stug 40L43, Stug37L24,  Light Tanks T70,Panzer 38T, Other Panzer 3, Panzer 4F1,  We have 4 barrel AA truck for German 20mm, 4 barrel AA truck for allies 50cal, All kinds of large Artillery and Anti-tank guns, we have several kinds of trucks, several Flak guns that canbe used dual purpose.  Make trucks driveable, gun towable by a single player to deploy.

These already have outside built just need to be made functional.  Right now germans lack a larger caliber self propelled artillery piece, hummel   etc  New stuff is good but why not purpose some things we already have to be playable ?

 

[VBF-12_Stele]

At the very least, I would hope there aren't invisible walls on the Normandy map

[CCG_Pips]

On 9/17/2021 at 2:09 AM, JG1_Wittmann said:

It would be ice to have some more units in game for sure.   Right now, in game in non player for we have scout cars, BA10M, BA64,SDKFZ222, for TD's we have Marder, Stug 40L43, Stug37L24,  Light Tanks T70,Panzer 38T, Other Panzer 3, Panzer 4F1,  We have 4 barrel AA truck for German 20mm, 4 barrel AA truck for allies 50cal, All kinds of large Artillery and Anti-tank guns, we have several kinds of trucks, several Flak guns that canbe used dual purpose.  Make trucks driveable, gun towable by a single player to deploy.

These already have outside built just need to be made functional.  Right now germans lack a larger caliber self propelled artillery piece, hummel   etc  New stuff is good but why not purpose some things we already have to be playable ?

 

Yes, missing in the game:

 

1/ reconnaissance units such as you point out

 

2/ Early war thanks and vehicles for Moscow map

 

3/ And of course AND URGENT, armoured vehicles and tanks for western Europe maps (Bodenplatte and future Normandy)

 

 

[javelina]

On 9/16/2021 at 5:01 PM, Mm1ut1 said:

I only play two computer games, The IL-2 Great Battles series and the Combat Mission series. I strongly recommend the latter when you need your armor fix. Lots of YouTube videos on it if you are interested (Videos by A guy named Double Vision are my favorites).
 

but it's only via Pancake mode?  part of the appeal for me is having VR. 

[Na-zdorovie]

lol, i don get on with VR at all, so prefer our pancake mode

[PA_Keko_]

On 8/30/2021 at 7:55 PM, Thad said:

 

 

 

My minimum expectations:

 

Allied:

M5 Stuart tanks

Sherman (Firefly)

M8 Greyhounds 37mm gun, 50cal MG (lightly armored reconnaissance vehicles) Suggest AI controlled at least.
M7 HMC(Howitzer Motor Carriage- Priest) M2/A1 Howitzer , 11,000 meter max range
Towed M1A1 155mm howitzers (20,000 meter max range)
M18 Hellcat Tank Destroyers
M3 half-tracks

80mm Mortar Units
Bazooka Units

 

Axis:

 

Tiger I
Panzerfaust Units

8cm Morter Sections,

12cm Granatwerfer Morter units. (6,000 meters)

Dug in Infantry Units
Sturmgelchutz Assault Guns. 10.5cm howitzers

 

 

That would be great!!!! 

[LachenKrieg]

On 9/19/2021 at 3:15 AM, CCG_Pips said:

Yes, missing in the game:

 

1/ reconnaissance units such as you point out

 

2/ Early war thanks and vehicles for Moscow map

 

3/ And of course AND URGENT, armoured vehicles and tanks for western Europe maps (Bodenplatte and future Normandy)

 

 

+1 for this ^^^ I don't expect anything armor vehicle wise with the release of BON because they seem to be completely occupied by it and I doubt they have room for anything else at the moment. I am wondering though whether there will be a surprise in the way of infantry with the BON release. There was that hint dropped by Jason more than a year ago, and since then we have seen some pretty nice models of paratroopers, and landing craft.

 

At any rate, I think BON is going to be a milestone for the IL2 franchise.

[DD_Friar]

Are the tanks and vehicles not developed by a separate group so outside of the workload for the flying Normandy development?

 

It would be nice to have a post on the road map for Tank Crew at some point.

[LachenKrieg]

3 hours ago, DD_Friar said:

Are the tanks and vehicles not developed by a separate group so outside of the workload for the flying Normandy development?

 

It would be nice to have a post on the road map for Tank Crew at some point.

Yes I believe the models are, but I think there is still a fair bit of work to put those models into the game. I expect they would have already announced that we are getting new drive-able vehicles if that was the case.

 

They seem to be busy making more AI assets for the map, but there has been no news about player controlled vehicles since the AAA trucks. By the time they release BON, Tank Crew will probably be more than a couple years old, so if they are not ready to announce TC2, then maybe we will hear about some more collector vehicles.

[NoelGallagher]

On 9/22/2021 at 8:17 PM, LachenKrieg said:

+1 for this ^^^ I don't expect anything armor vehicle wise with the release of BON because they seem to be completely occupied by it and I doubt they have room for anything else at the moment. I am wondering though whether there will be a surprise in the way of infantry with the BON release. There was that hint dropped by Jason more than a year ago, and since then we have seen some pretty nice models of paratroopers, and landing craft.

 

At any rate, I think BON is going to be a milestone for the IL2 franchise.

infantry is very plausible becasue battle of normandy is mostly remebered as the allied infantry hitting the beach with landing craft in peoples mind

even if il-2 is about air battle

i don't think they will ignore that

 

[352ndOscar]

I’m not holding my breath waiting on an “infantry” mod/update.  I just don’t see it happening with this sim.  IF 1C was to say “Let’s fix all our issues before we add any further content.”; then it would take at least a year to accomplish that.  Understand, for 1C, that’s a year without income…….  Also, look at the issues we are having with the number of “objects” included in missions today.  Add infantry and those mission problems expand exponentially.  
 

what I can hope for at best is the necessary functioning vehicles that let me “simulate” an infantry battle.

Edited September 25, 2021 by 352ndOscar

[JV44HeinzBar]

S!,

I respect the opinions represented here concerning infantry. However, I would rather the developers work on existing problems and develop missing AFVs that were used during Normandy, e.g. Stug III, jagpanther, cromwell, churchill, firefly, etc. Additionally, the ability to remove the "radar" function around spawn points is a huge issue. One look at the missions in Finnish and you can see where the enemy (tank & plane) are located. If the Devs can't include the option to remove, perhaps allow mission makers to greatly reduce the range of this "radar". The other main issue for tankers is still the overabundance of invisible objects that cause damage to the tanks.

 

For WW2 infantry play, Post Scriptum is the way to go

 

HB

Edited September 25, 2021 by JV44HeinzBar

[Voidhunger]

1 hour ago, 352ndOscar said:

I’m not holding my breath waiting on an “infantry” mod/update.  I just don’t see it happening with this sim

They are working on infantry. |It was said in one of DD i think.