Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 6:00 am Post subject:
Kitty Killers
Throughout the war the Germans had a technical advantage over the Allies with their Zoo of armoured vehicles, the Americans tried their hardest to close this gap but all of there efforts weren't ready before there superior numbers overwhelmed the German warmachine. You can now though put down the rabid German animals with the best the Americans had to offer.
The Pershing was originally designed to take on the Tiger tank, but by the time it was ready for combat Kingtigers where roaming Europe. To combat this new threat one of the prototype Pershings was upgunned with a more powerful 90mm cannon & rushed to France for field testing. Once there armour salvaged from a destroyed Panther tank was added, which brought it on par with the Kingtiger. The crew then went looking for prey but they only knocked out one Tiger tank before the war ended.
A post war upgrade of the M26 Pershing, most of the improvements are internal tho (engine, gun, armour thickness etc), so to differentiate it from the M26 in-game I gave it a tiger stripe paint scheme, which was used during the Korean War to "scare" the enemy.
The T28 (aka T95) is probably the most unique tank built during World War II. Originally designed to breakthrough the bunkers of the Siegfried Line. It's heavy armour, impervious to any know gun at the time meant it could drive right up to the enemy's defences & blast away. The Siegfried Line was breached before it was ready tho so thoughts turned to using it in the invasion of Japan but again the war ended before it could be put to use.
PS: This is the third time I've made a vxl of this tank & I'm still not happy with it XP
The first true heavy tank design since the M6 at the beginning of the war. It was used to test several types of engine & a experimental parallax rangefinder which in theory would have given it the ability to fire accurately at long ranges but it proved to be unreliable in anything other then perfect weather conditions.
The last of the war time heavy tank designs, the T34 used the same layout as the T29/T30 but equipped with a new 120mm cannon. The experience gained from working on the T34 was later used to help design the T43/M103 heavy tank. _________________
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 9:15 pm Post subject:
Super Pershing: It's okay
M46: The use of the tiger-scheme is kinda ugly, no offense. Perhaps you can use the M47 Patton? The turret and hull are distinctive from the M48 and M46.
T95: Absolutely beautiful. You may not be happy with it but IMO its one of the best voxels I've seen.
T29: Extremely good.
T34: As much as this tank makes me twitch convulsively, you did a good job modelling it.
No T32 though? I guess having too many Pershing-variant vehicles isn't desirable. _________________ YR modder/artist, DOOM mapper, aka evanb90
Project Lead Developer, New-Star Strike (2014-)
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I plan on making the M47 after I've done the T42 & T69.
I thought about making the T30E1 & T32E1 as well but I'm not as interested in them, wanted to move on to some shp work too.
Oh, I know the Tiger scheme is real, I just think that RA2's voxel format isn't the best to represent an intricate camo pattern. Besides, M46/M26 were basically the same tank. Only real difference, if you were to translate it down to RTS form, would be the acceleration.
As for T30/T32, totally understandable. _________________ YR modder/artist, DOOM mapper, aka evanb90
Project Lead Developer, New-Star Strike (2014-)
Former Project Lead DeveloperStar Strike (2005-2012), Z-Mod (2006-2007), RA1.5 (2008-2013), The Cold War (2006-2007) QUICK_EDIT
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Kitty Killers
