Kind of a vague suggestion but I'm hoping in future patches we can see a greater importance put on mobile artillery (artillery here meaning AA guns, AT guns, etc).

Reasoning being the only real benefit of static anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns is no recoil, but beyond that they have a disadvantage to all mobile positions and it's a huge pain in the ass that most people who play as pilots every round know where all the enemy positions are. Most people who play as tankers know where all the enemy PaKs are, etc. So I'm hoping that in the future we can see a lot of static positions made mobile, some static positions replaced with portees or PaKs mounted on trucks, some static FlaK guns replaced by truck-mounted ones etc.

There's not really any point in finding a bunch of examples, I just think that with the advent of 128 play it's become more and more likely that half the enemy team knows exactly where your defenses are before they get there, and this is especially bad on maps like Cobra and whatnot. Added to the fact that often you only get 1-shot with a PaK anyway, being able to move them even a small distance would be a huge help. Obviously not to do away with them everywhere but for the most part, I'd like to see static guns replaced by mobile guns, and if possible introduce some half-track 88s and the like.

In other words, a flag with two Opel Blitz flak trucks and two mobile PaK 40s is more useful to a defending team than the same flag with double the guns if those guns are static.

Thoughts? What maps would this be a good trade on in your opinion?

On the map Port-en-Bessin, Sector Push is set up perfectly: it focuses the action on 1/2/3 flags, but also allows counterattacks. The Germans can be pushed back to their final flag, and then with a determined attack, retake every single flag on the map. Sector Push also works great on Point du Hoc 32: the Americans can get pushed off right back off the cliffs, or they can soldier back on down the map and take Farm back if they're capable.

When I first read about Sector Push coming in 2.45, this was how I pictured it. But Port and PdH seem to be the only maps where this is even possible. Maps like Ramelle-Neuville and Falaise Pocket also have Sector Push, but it's set up in such a way that no retaking of more than 1 flag is possible. If the Canadians are backed up to Mortar Battery or the Americans backed up to their last flag, they just get raped for the rest of the round. The best maps of Ramelle I've ever played were the rare times the Americans actually pushed the Germans back over the bridge, but you can't do that anymore, and that's a shame.

So is there any chance we can look at Sector Push for the next patch? Nothing needs to be changed in the maps themselves but Sector Push is just No Counterattack Mode more often than not.

Bonjour, y'all: I'm having trouble finding me some photos of Winchester shotguns or the M3 Grease Gun being used in WW2. All I have of either weapon is a photo of some handsome Greeks with the Grease Gun, and nowt for the Winch. I'd very much like to have a few of photos of both, and undoubtedly in the next few weeks I'll stumble across a few, but if any of you have some saved, I would appreciate if you can link me to a few.

Cheers,

Andrew

We all know, or should know, that in certain vehicles pressing the Up and Down arrows has some functions: in some cars and jeeps you can raise/lower the windshield/roof, in some trucks you can lower the tailgate for tailgate parties, etc. Most notably in half-tracks you can use these arrows to lower the windshield, which does have some use in protecting you, as well as in some flak trucks, you can lower the firing platform for better visibility.

What are some other functions we could use the Up and Down arrows for? I was thinking for starters if it was possible to code, we could use those arrows to open and close the grenade cage on the Sdkfz 222, so you could sacrifice some visibility for protection against grenades and snipers if you wanted. Can it be coded to use these keys to turn engines on and off, to save you the hassle of switching to secondary positions and risking someone nicking your tank?

Sadly, apart from that I can't think of any more real uses, just Easter Egg uses, like an ejector seat for chatty passengers, or we could use the arrow keys for hydraulics on random, pimped-out Kubelwagens.

Can anyone think of other uses for these keys we could implement?

I need to acquire icon-sized pictures of various icons in FH2 for the guide I'm writing, the icons you see on your minimap (truck, heavy tank, light tank, etc.). How can I see a .dds file as a picture? Is there another way for me to get icon-sized pictures of this kind of thing? Worst comes to worst I can print-screen and cut them out, but if there's a faster way then that's what I'd like to do.

Cheers,

Andrew

Interested to get the community's thoughts on this: after giving it some thought the past couple months of 64+ play I think we need to consider removing the ability for tanks to be repaired by passengers riding along the tank.

To be clear right off the bat: I don't want any changes made to how tanks are repaired. A soldier standing next to it with a wrench should be just as effective as they are now. I have no problem with this.

But, we need to keep in mind 128 play is only going to get more popular, and the following aspects of tanking must be remembered:

• Any player in a tank potentially has the ability to endlessly shit out nine engineers off the back of the tank, and no grease monkey will ever have to wait more than 20 seconds to get right back at it. It is simply overwhelming, especially since it happens nearly ever round of Ramelle, Sidi Bou Zid etc.
• Players can glitch by teleporting between passenger seats, making them nearly impossible to kill.
• Not all tanks have this ability (spare seats for mounted infantry), when most should.
• The tanks that do have this ability (Tiger, King Tiger, Jagdpanther, etc.) are the last tanks that need it, whereas other tanks that we can find countless pictures of with inf riding on them don't have this ability.
• Hitboxes are unreliable at the best of times, and it shouldn't take five shots to kill a guy sitting on a tank, but it usually does.
• It will always be impossible with the BF2 engine to simulate damaged tracks, disabled gearboxes etc. but you can go some small way to simulating that when a tank must stay stationary/crawl slowly to be repaired by infantry on foot. Somehow, it seems a bit unfair that a Tiger with a giant cloud of fire pouring from the engine deck can blast off down the road at full speed with 5 guys sitting on it repairing it as if they were polishing the paint.

So if you disagree it's all well and good, I'd like to hear your reasons. I think tanks generally should be harder to knock out than they are, but this isn't really the way I want to go about it. I want more teamwork, but having 9 grease monkeys in your uber Tiger squad doing nothing all round but keeping you alive is difficult to warm up to. Again, all I'm asking for is that people repairing tanks have to be standing next to it like anyone else, and if a guy can have 9 engineers spawning on him then, it's fine with me. They'll be the same as regular infantry, no bullshit with hitboxes and switching seats and teleporting across tanks and grenades not killing them and HE shells magically not hurting them and all the rest of it.

But as ever, happy to be proved wrong. Opinions?

Easy enough. What's your favorite to use? Why?

As a friendly reminder, here are all of the heavy tanks we currently enjoy in FH2:

PzKpfw VI Ausf. E "Tiger" (early) (Mareth Line, Sidi Bou Zid)
PzKpfw VI Ausf. E "Tiger" (late) (Lebisey, Ramelle-Neuville, Villers Bocage, Operation Totalize)
PzKpfw VI Ausf. B "Tiger II" (Bastogne, Eppeldorf, Operation Goodwood, Meuse River)

M4A3E2 Sherman Jumbo (75mm) (Bastogne)
M4A3E2 Sherman Jumbo (76mm) (Meuse River)

Matilda Mk II (Battle of Keren, Mount Olympus, Sidi Rezegh, Siege of Tobruk, Bardia)
Valentine Mk II (Sidi Rezegh, Mersa Matruh)
Churchill Mk III (El Alamein, Mareth Line, Operation Supercharge)
Churchill Mk IV (Operation Totalize)
Churchill Mk IV (75mm) (Operation Totalize, Anctoville)

Personally, although I am a great fan of the 75mm Jumbo on Bastogne (I will proudly tell you all now that I not once, but twice, outflanked Unique-mck in his Panther to kill him with it in a single round), I have to say my favorite heavy tank in the mod at the moment is the Valentine. Don't get to use it very often, but something about it I adore. Perhaps it's the sound of useless German rounds banging off the front of my tank all day, or my own laughter echoing inside the hull afterwards.

On the other side of the coin, and perhaps I just suck (this seems likely), I've never felt any more invincible in a Churchill than I would in say, a Cromwell. I seem to get fausted, Panther-sniped and panzerschrek'd just as easily in all three of the variants. Perhaps I'll have more luck with the AVRE.

So what's your favorite heavy tank right now? What ones don't you like? What maps need more or less of them? What new ones do we need to find a way to get into the mod?

(In other words, please please please we need a Crocodile ).