I'll start off first with news on a major unit list change, after beta testing & many days of thought I've decided to replace the repair vehicles with supply trucks as resource gathers. The Americans will however keep their repair vehicles but they will no longer be able to collect supplies (this makes them a bit more useful as they wont auto-collect supplies but instead auto-repair XD). I have also decided to remove Britain's tank destroyers, they have however been replaced by special engineering units like the Scorpion Mine flail, Crocodile flame tank, ARVE & a recoilless rifle tank. I hope this will make the British more unique & emphasize their use of specialist equipment.
Even with these changes the affect on the beta is very minimal as I already have trucks for most of the sides done & all but one of the British units are all based on existing units so the time needed to make them is negligible. In fact you might be interested to know that there is only 17 vxls left to make for the beta, so that’s roughly a few weeks work. However there is still a lot of code to do & masses of shp work but things are getting close!
Now it's time to for some pics
I started work on new Gfx for the loading screen & main menu last week, after lots of ideas & three tries later I managed to come up with something. I still need to make things like the buttons, arrows & scroll bars etc but the layout & back ground is done.
Next up is something that has filled me with both passion & hatred, I also feel that this one building summarizes D-day it’s self in that even tho it took two years to make it was well worth it in the end. The Reichstag which alongside the Brandenburgert are the centrepiece to the Berlin map which hopefully is the first in several highly accurate maps that have been researched down to the street level.
Carrying on I have some more buildings, these ones however where made by MadHQ who is kindly giving me a hand with some of the shp work. These where made as a test using my old work as a base & are very much still a work in progress, they should give you an idea of things to come tho.
lastly (yes there is more!) I have a few unit pics... well 15 to be exact
Willy’s MB Jeep
DUKW
M12
Sikorsky R-4
LCT Mk.6
Morris C8 GS
A22 Churchill AVRE
FV304
FV4401 Contentious
FV214 Conqueror
S-75/SAM-2
Flakpanzer V Coelian
Schützenpanzer E-50 Büffel
Pzkfw E-75
Panzerjäger E-100 Krokodil
some things I should point out about these units, the DUKW has replaced the CCKW as the American MCV giving them amphibious base construction ability. The Büffel is in fact a hypothetical unit based on a German IFV from the late 50's but using late war tech. It was invented by a skilled model maker who also included diagrams & background information, I know it's not historically accurate but I felt that it would improve gameplay if the Germans had such a unit. The E-75 & Krokodil are somewhat ambiguous too as very little information about them is available so I used my creative licence to make them using bits & pieces from different sources.
