Cleverly edited pic from last year's independence day parade 

View through a division wiking panther's periscope, during summer '44 soviet offensive.

I'm going to let you down lightly as I imagine there will be people ready to jump down your throat upon seeing this.

No - this isn't something that will be implemented. These weapons weren't fired from the hip or if they were it was extremely rare - it therefore doesn't represent a realistic use of the weapon. Portrayals of hip firing such weapons tend to be limited to 'reenactors' who want to look like Rambo, and films that want to portray soldiers as Rambo.

The truth of this act is that it would be highly inaccurate, impractical and wasteful. In reality these weapons were used by crews of between 2-6 men - only one of which would carry the weapon, the rest would carry ammunition, tripod, spare barrels, their own rifles, binoculars etc. In FH2 by selecting the machine gunner kit you are essentially taking on the role of 3 different men in real life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzaKWuMj7os&feature=youtu.be&t=43s

 

Bastogne, Eppeldorf, Totalize, Goodwood, Villers Bocage - all nice looking combined arms maps with lots of sandbox freedom... and you can have fun as inf too.

Anything goes in battlefield conditions. Ihantala, July 1944.

Smoke grenades that make a very irritating/poison smoke, if thrown onto a tank it had a  chance of going inside the tank through the ventilation system, if that happens the crew can choose, die or open the tank hatches and run for it. Also the crew is completely blinded due to the smoke. A very close range and last resort anti tank weapon realy, but it did give you the chance to capture a tank fully intact.

There were all kinds of similar weapons.



Blinding bottle training with T-34, will spread some sticky goo on the drivers hatch and start burning blinding the rest of the tank.

Best way to make FH2 look good is to just bump up proper supersampling anti-aliasing with anisotropic filtering.