Thank's Merhabi's for this skin of the Tiger N°222 of Michel Wittmann. This an upgraded version "with bushes".
This Tiger was the most famous German tank of the Normandy front with 27 vehicules kills in one day (June 13, 1944,) at Villers Bocage village.. For this great victory, Wittmann won the Iron Cross with leaves and swords, hand delivered by the Führer himself on June 25, 1944 in Berchtesgaden."...
Unfortunatly, Michael Wittmann died in another Tiger, the N°007, wich had been shoot in the back by the rocket of a Jabo.. (Merhabi also did it: Wittmann's Last Tiger Skin )
[If you want to use this skin in your Mod ask Merhabi's for his permission!]
Installation (exemple for Russy skirmish mission): copy it in "tank_heavy" folder of your mod folder:
C:\Program Files\Steam2\SteamApps\common\men of war assault squad\mods\Russy\resource\entity\-vehicle\tank_heavy
Wittmann Tanks numbers:
I admit it's not easy to know wich exact numbers were used by Michael Wittmann and after reading several historian's books on this subject, I think now we can say:
On Russian Front,Michael Wittman used severals tanks and in the early spring of 1943, he joined the Tiger company and started his combat career on Tiger during the Operation Citadel (Zitadelle) and fighted on Kharkov and Kursk battles, and and he received the Knight’s Cross.
In sSSPzAbt 101,Wittmann had the Tiger N°1331 and in October 1943 he changed for the Tiger #S21.
As an Ace of the Russian front, he was already a hero, and when he arrived in Normandy front he got a new late production model Tiger I #205. (I've seen that after Allied air attacks damages, he also used sometimes the n°215).
At Villers bocage, he was the SS-Obersturmfuhrer of the Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101 wich was composed with Tigers N° 221, 222, 223, 231, 233 and 234 and their mission was to stop the column of vehicules of "Desert rats", but because of mechanical problems on #205, Michel had to take the 222(Kurt Sowa's one). 2 others tigers were also immobilized, so Michael order them to guard their positions and decided to attack alone!
At the end of his exploit in Villers bocage, British soldiers from 1st Rifle Brigade opened fire at Wittmann with their 6 pdr anti-tank gun, immobilizing his Tiger. Wittmann and his crew escaped on foot towards the Panzer Lehr positions 7km away near Orbois..
He finaly changed for the 007 Tiger (Heinz von Westernhagen's one?) and died in it after his Tiger received a rocket from a Jabo in the back (Historians prooved it wasn't due to a shot from a Firefly).
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Thanks for your comments about this beast ;)
This mod is masterpice and all good what I can say on it ok!
thanks ;)
very cool indeed, very cool is the life / story of michael vittmann....
Propaganda and politics aside he was one of my heroes from WW2...
A truly gifted commander he was.....
It would be good to recreate the battle where he engaged a submarine and a gunboat in a harbor.... Or even better the SHOWW2 missions about vittmann in MOW:AS...
A mission with engaging a Gunbaot or a Submarine? Why not?
I was just thinking about Villers Bocage: It could be a damned good historical skirmish mission.. (Thee is a lot of documentation on it)
Wittmann was one of the best Tank commander of WW2 but also had an outstanding shooter in the person of Balthasar Woll has the rare ability to fire his gun when the tank was driving (remember that at this time the guns were not stabilized).
Comment ? Villers Bocage en préparation...
Inconditionnel de la campagne de Normandie, j'ai hâte !!!
Maybe I will find some free time in september to do a little historical mission about villers bocage's exploit of Michael Wittmann ... (I said maybe) ;)
Your work is great.
Panther is we need to attach to the bush
Ask Panther too.
I've already done some Panzer IV skins with bushes and for most all of german's vehicules: You can already find them in my Tessel Mission folder ;)
As a lot of peaple like them, I will propose soon an mod for these "German bushes camos".. (it's my work, so use it only for your own use. I don't permit the use of my work without my agree)
Thanks your work , skins tank m103, m60 , t62 , t72 , f214 conqueror ...please !!!
Hello,
As as I explained before, i've not enought time for modding at this moment.. (And I prefer modding WW2 tanks).
If you want, you can make yourself simple skins for the tanks you want:
1/ Search in the game folder the name of the tank you want to skin (example for the IS3):
C:\Program Files\Steam2\SteamApps\common\men of war assault squad\resource\entity\e2\-vehicle\tank_heavy\is3
2/ Search on the net some pics about the real historical camos and good colors for your tanks.. Then, edit the .dds files with a photo editing program like the gimp (free) or photoshop (you will need a dds plugin that you can find it on Nvidia site)
3/When your skin is finish, don't forget to edit also each file _x.dds and _xx.dds for damaged skins (if not, when the tank is shot,another skin will appear).
(in resource\entity\e2\-vehicle\tank_heavy\x\is3_x (folder) and is3_xx folder)
It's not hard to do but it will take a little bit of your free time..
If you want to add bushes, you can study inside my .mdl file how I defined the bushes for my Tiger as an example and edit your Tank.mdl file to add yourself some bushes on the tanks you want.
The best skin that I have seen in public! Thank you very much!
wittmann's tank number is 007 not 222 !!!!!
The 222 was the number of the Tiger of Wittmann during the Villers Bocage fights. (It wasn't his personal tank, and it was also the case for the 007 Tiger in wich he died..
Before saying such comments, you should click on "read more" in the description of this addon, Bass was clear on this point ;)
how do you get the bush on ?
when you spawn it in the editor, in the vehicle properties
-> details
-> expand details
-> check boxes next to the bushes
f* this SS ***** :-) :-/