Forgotten Hope News Update: 27th May 2009: Flies of Steel

[azreal]

One more thing. You do not even know how hard it was to keep my mouth shut about this vehicle, rather than telling all of you to shut up about Allied Armor and that the Firefly was coming

[Matthew_Baker]

Wow awsome update! , just one question... will we see the M4A4 as an American tank as well? or is it strictly British? and also... the more like brownish colored Shermans in the background of each pic.... will we see those in Normandy? or are they maybe a North African version? Great update as always

[Schneider]

We could see that coming, couldn't we? Lightning failed his crushing attitude and gave it away some weeks ago already, though not on purpose. 
However, they look nice. Will make good cannon-fooder!
And N24, away with the sig now!

[General_Henry]

whoa! Fireflies! death to Gerries!

[pheeph]

so this Sherman model is the one with the noticeable sloped armor?

[VonMudra]

Very nice   Can't wait to tangle with those Fireflies, and to see if the barrel camo will work this time

[Mspfc Doc DuFresne]

Mmmm... Shermans. Can't wait for the M4A3(76) myself, though. That tank has a special place in my heart. (and the M4A3E8 Easy Eight. They have them in the PFC mappack in 0.7 and those things are beasts!) Will we see any Easy Eights in FH2, I wonder? Or the M4A3E2 Jumbo, that tank makes my day.

[AdamPA1006]

Awesome. And still "Next week" is so sweet too. I hope you understand how awesome the "next week" is!

[VonMudra]

Mmmm... Shermans. Can't wait for the M4A3(76) myself, though. That tank has a special place in my heart. (and the M4A3E8 Easy Eight. They have them in the PFC mappack in 0.7 and those things are beasts!) Will we see any Easy Eights in FH2, I wonder? Or the M4A3E2 Jumbo, that tank makes my day.

There were fewer Jumbos in WW2 then there were Pumas, the difference being that the Puma was an armoured car, and 100 of them was a sizable number for german divisions (IIRC, the 130th panzer lehr was fully equipped with them), compared to something like 70 Jumbos out of the entire american tank force in Normandy....  Honestly, we might see it eventually, but it really shouldn't be a priority IMO, nor should it be near as common as it was in FH1....=/

[Mspfc Doc DuFresne]

That tank still makes my day, even though it barely existed. Just the concept of a heavily armored Sherman is a fascinating mixture of Fail and Win.

[[130.Pz]S.Lainer]

  Don't get me wrong....Those Shermans in NA had some wonderful skins.  The ones in normandy however might just make me pause with my shrek for like a half second.  Very nice job guys! 

[VonMudra]

That tank still makes my day, even though it barely existed. Just the concept of a heavily armored Sherman is a fascinating mixture of Fail and Win.

Also, remember, the armour values were off in FH1.  It really only was heavily armoured in the front, and had severly less armour on sides and rear then normal shermans...30mm IIRC.   But still cool.

[CBC]

awesome, i can't imagine how many shermans will fh2 have after its done 

[General_Henry]

That tank still makes my day, even though it barely existed. Just the concept of a heavily armored Sherman is a fascinating mixture of Fail and Win.

Also, remember, the armour values were off in FH1.  It really only was heavily armoured in the front, and had severly less armour on sides and rear then normal shermans...30mm IIRC.   But still cool.

All shermans are not cool at all when a random infantryman pop out in his sides with a panzerfaust.

[[130.Pz]S.Tiemann]

Then the jerry has to deal with the 20 more behind him, I hope the tank maps have tons of shermans to rush at the german armour.