Cookies for the first one to spot what's so special about this picture.

The answer to everything is the Bf 109 G6.


Nothing survives a burst of those 3 30mm autocannons.

That's so cool. But how on earth are they going to get the bottom one out again?

The side skirts are indeed boxes of reactive armor, but I meant those two boxes with antennas at the front of both sides. I think I've seen simular devices before on the hoods of humvees, and those were IED jammers.

There seem to be rather a lot of antennas for the sole purpose of communication as well.

Piper of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards "Scots Greys" in front of a maneuvering Challenger II.

What are all those antennas for?
Boxes on the sides up front are IED jammers?


Here's another picture of such a heavily modified Challenger II.

maybe it was hit after it was knocked out by a bazooka?

It's just a set propaganda picture because a soldier up close with a bazooka is way cooler than a tank shooting from a kilometer away. The position the cameraman is in gives away that he's either completely nuts, or in already secured territory. He would be behind the soldier otherwise.

Israelis used a bunch of different Shermans as well, although they upgraded most of them.

Yup, same here. I've been waiting for this game for years and to be honest it's quite a big disappointment.

It's not a bad game, but expectations were higher and it could have been so much better. IMO they wasted way too much time on adding stupid features (annoying blizzards, ranking/leveling system, snow/cold, etc) instead of making a really good game. Company of Heroes would have been such a great basis. All they needed to do IMO was improve the graphics, add more units and maps and polish the combat system.

Instead, they made what seems to be quite a pathetic (seen from gameplay standards) modification and decided to name it a full game.


It's not intense, it's not tactical. The camera is annoyingly close to the battlefield and combat seems very passive (two squads shooting at eachother somehow just looks dull, compared to CoH where you were watching the bullets fly and ricochet everywhere). There are tons of mechanics that don't really add anything but annoyance, and even worse slow down the pace of the gameplay.

There is barely any unit diversity, and above all the armies are boringly identical. Like pointed out above, there seems to be a lack of a proper 'mid-game'. You start the game and have a few good infantry fights, untill you deploy MGs and bunkers. Next thing you know it's the battle of Kursk all over again.

It's just... boring.