Italiana & Française

Mig Eater · Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:50 pm Post subject: Italiana & Française

I've been away a lot the last two months so I haven't had much time to work on D-day, this is a round up of what I have done tho.

This simple pier structure is used to house italy's new seaplanes. They are specialized in anti-ship work, carrying aerial torpedoes, depth charges & mines. Gameplay wise they are the equivalent of the other sides submarines or aircraft carriers etc.

This 40ton box was Italy's first tank, two where built in 1918 just as WWI finished. Both where then sent to Libya but a year later only one returned. In 1934 the surviving tank was fixed up & rearmed with two new 37mm cannons & then used for propaganda parades. After tho all trace of it was lost with it's fate unknown.

I made this tank awhile go but I've recently found more information about it so it's been given a makeover with a new turret & wheels/suspension to make it more accurate.

The first of Italy's seaplanes, the S.55 was a revolutionary design when built, breaking just about every record in the book! In 1933 24 of them famously flew nonstop across the Atlantic from Italy to America for an expo in Chicago.

The maiale is a manned torpedo driven by Italy's elite naval commandos, which they used to stealthily sneak up on enemy ships & plant explosives. One group set up a base in an old shipwreck just outside of Gibraltar & conducted several raids on the harbor there, the British didn't find out that they where so close until after the war.

Prototype cargo truck using a unusual articulated body to move over ruff terrain. Production was planned to start in 1940 but France fell before they could start.

Another tank I made awhile ago but but with bad info, this one needed remaking from scratch tho!

One of five tank designs that was competing to become Frances new medium tank, as usual tho France fell before any where built.

Post-war APC built using the basic components of the famous AMX-13 light tank.

The Farfadet is France's first VTOL plane, using both a nose mounted turboprop for forward movement & a tip-jet system for vertical takeoff. Primary meant for transport duties, I've hypothetically equipped it with wing mounted cannons for ground attack tho.

PS: All of the French & Italian ground unit screenshots have been redone to the new layout.

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Haha, clever italians. I've never heard of anything like the Maiale before, aside from comics #Tongue

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OrangeNero · Commander **Joined**: 11 Jan 2012

just wondering do your italian forces have donkeys too?

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iamn00b · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:09 pm Post subject:

unique idea for the seadock!

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LordCesare · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 11:13 am Post subject:

O_o what do you mean donkeys?

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Garrick · Medic **Joined**: 08 Jul 2011

We had mules with the Alpini in Russia. I remember one of the interviews by Nuto Revelli regarding one of the AMIR soldiers being shipped to the Don front

"We confronted our train and the German's: for us it was a mule ever four soldiers. For them it was a tank every four soldiers"

Medalmonkey · Missile Trooper **Joined**: 26 Nov 2003

The vxl's of the Fiat 2000 and P43 are amazing! They look like a cartoon, with very much detail.

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EVA-251 · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 4:06 pm Post subject:

I guess you could say they look like they came out of a cartoon with their appearances. Tank designs back then were kinda...dumb. That and Italy was not a representative at ANY time of good tank design.

Also, the Duck and BDR G1B? Somebody has been playing WOT recently. #Tongue

AMX-40 turret is well, I guess there isn't enough definition. The concept sketches (IE not the upgraded WOT tank) show a turret that looked more rounded. BDR is nice though, however wretched of a vehicle it is.

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Mig Eater · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 6:50 pm Post subject:

The AMX-40 & G1B have been on my to(re)do list for ages, seeing them all the time in WoT kinda forced them to mind tho #Tongue

PS: Modern Italian AFVs like the Ariete & Centauro are pretty good IMO.

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Medalmonkey · Missile Trooper **Joined**: 26 Nov 2003

Wow, you guys really know a lot about tanks!

EVA-251 wrote:

Tank designs back then were kinda...dumb. That and Italy was not a representative at ANY time of good tank design.

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Garrick · Medic **Joined**: 08 Jul 2011

Mig Eater wrote:

The AMX-40 & G1B have been on my to(re)do list for ages, seeing them all the time in WoT kinda forced them to mind tho #Tongue

PS: Modern Italian AFVs like the Ariete & Centauro are pretty good IMO.

The Ariete looks good but is nowhere near other western designs, its engine is slightly underpowered and suffered heavily from budget cuts. It has been nicknamed "Last of the firsts"
The Dardo is nice, there was some talking about making an entire vehicle family, but it all got canned. Spike launcher aren't even standard equipment. (that and the italian taxpayer is generally not very happy when it comes to military spending)