Quote from: [F|H]Spit on 10-06-2009, 14:06:43

when all of you have it on your HHDs

Our Holographic Huso Disks? 

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I have ben reading a lil about this, and I was wondering: what is the difference between HEAT shells and PzGr 40?

And I read something about Panzer IVF2 using PzGr 39, so is there a big difference between them and if so, shouln't the number be changed to 39?

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Panzer_IV

PzGr 39 = APCBC (Armour Piercing Capped Ballistic Capped)
PzGr 40 = APRC (Armour Piercing Rigid Composite)
HEAT = High Explosive Anti-Tank

Basically, a regular AP round has a sharp, aerodynamic point and is generally the same alloy overall. APCBC has a softer, blunt nosecone attached to a regular AP round, and the nosecone itself has an aerodynamic fairing (hence the repeating of the word "capped" - it has literally two "caps"). APRC has a core of hard metal such as tungsten, surrounded by lighter and softer metal (eg. aluminium). On the other hand, with a HEAT shell the shell itself does not penetrate armour at all, it is a shaped charge that upon contact fires a focused explosion that melts its way through the armour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_(projectile)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APBC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APCBC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HEAT

Quote from: Handel on 01-06-2009, 07:06:19

I will surely try the MP but I do not feel I am ready yet for that.

Just leap headlong into multiplayer.

That's what I did when Flippy recruited me last September. Hadn't touched the SP mode before that, did not touch that thereafter. It's much more fun to practice against live humans rather than bots, plus you actually learn more that way because you can ask the veterans and get answers straight away.

Read The Friendly Manual for vanilla BF2 first, then read FH2 FAQs and guides, and after that you're set to go online. Don't teamkill, stay low, be polite, ask if you have questions 'cause the community is happy to answer, DO NOT SHOUT!!!!½½½½, stay low, try to follow the orders of your squadleader if he gives those, the rest you can pick up as you go. After half a year of regular practice, you won't die as often as you used to do

Hoping for a P-38 Lightning, just because it's my favourite WW2 fighter plane

You have to suspend your disbelief anyway.... considering how an artillery barrage leaves things like wooden tables and camouflage nets intact but wrecks anything beneath. "Building" defences at fixed locations, I have bad memories of that from FarCry. I mean, I can accept a table that looks wooden but seems to be adamantium, but to create walls and fortifications out of thin air with nothing but a wrench is really pushing it. Might have its place in a semi/non-realistic action shooter, but not in FH2, IMHO.

when is normandy's release? 

"When it's done."

Is it not possible to disable the bofors once the axis team has taken a flag?

There's already a method for that. It's called Panzerbüchse 39. I like to spawn with the AT kit as soon as possible if I'm playing Germans, primarily to take down the Boforses (and only secondarily the tanks), preferably even before the flag is taken (die, spawn at SL with new kit). Suddenly, infantryrushing Rearguard or Hill 107 without Stuka support becomes far less suicidal...

The Boforses are located badly to be of any use as offensive weapons, and on the defensive, two ATR shots take it out. So even if it's for Britons only, it's not really so imbalanced. The real problem for the Germans are the inexperienced Tante Ju drivers who do not even listen to advice and fly at low/medium altitudes straight into the worst flak zones - then repeat the excercise time and again.

Ever since 2.15 was released, and I got the taste of the Siege of Tobruk map, I have dreamt what would Battle of Stalingrad or Battle of Berlin look like in FH2, salivating at the thought.

Also, I imagine a gently rolling steppe, with long grass undulating in the breeze, that will nicely hide all those pesky AT patrols (with their famous anti-tank dogs). And a Ferdinand/Elefant stalking in a hull-down position, waiting for that T-34 platoon to pass by. The sheer horror of facing a KV-1 in a PzIVD or F1. Shturmoviks terrorizing German tanks until 109's and 190's arrive. Seeing whether "Kobryusha" would live up to its reputation, being just as deadly to both tanks and aircraft (or as was often the case due to its tendency to flat spin, to its pilots as well)? Or would the Stuka armed with the twin 37mm PaKs be the ultimate tank killer?

Then again, the Finn in me would like to see Winter War scenarios with massive human wave assaults and artillery barrages opposed by a hastily trenched infantry line with too few MGs to go around, with the defenders trying to stop T-26's with just L-39 ATRs and Molotov cocktails. Or maybe a Continuation War scenario, where there's far too many tanks available to the Soviet side so the players simply cannot resist the temptation, and then, without proper infantry support, they drive straight into a forest full of 'faust or 'schreck-armed infantry...

The Pacific theatre does offer some nice ideas, but those specific to the theatre are infantry-heavy instead of combined arms -style (jungle patrols, capturing/clearing a bunker/tunnel network -- and I don't like infantry vs. infantry battles 'coz I suck at those). The remainder can be handled in other theatres' maps: invasion beaches will be in Normandy; cityfights can be anywhere; picking the only real tank battle in the Pacific theatre versus the innumberable tank battles elsewhere; a big dogfight over water could also be a "Battle of Britain" special map. Plus, if it is still uncertain whether "real" ships can be made, I think Pacific can wait.