In the morning of December 16th,1944 German Forces launched a surprise attack in the dense Ardennes Forest in Belgium and Luxemburg. Allied High command is hastily rushing re-enforcements to the area, to counter the surprise attack and prevent them from crossing Meuse river. Can you stop the elite of the German panzerdivisions, or vice versa,lead them to victory? Find out. Features include but are in no way limited to: -The new Automatic Territory Capture system (thanks to AnyGameX) No more flagpoles simply capture territory by having more men in it than your opponent. -Fuel and ammo consumption -Realistic tank combat featuring historic penetration values, tanks have their turret rotation times reset to the actual speeds of real life, visibility reduced to reflect the limited line of sight from tanks' vision blocks. -new units such as the Sturmtiger, M36 'Jackson', M4A3E2 Sherman "Jumbo" and many,many more. - more than 35 exclusive high quality winter maps & realistic athmospheres
Jagdtiger of schw PzJg Abt 653 and parts of 17th SS Panzergrenadierdivision advancing through the town of Wingen
in the Vosges Mountains.
Model by Mr.Scruff, Map by Tarlak501
Yes, your eyes do not play tricks on you. The Jagdpanzer VI will finally
be added to this Mod.
And no, I am still not convinced that a single one of these saw combat in the Battle of the Bulge, but they definetely saw combat in "Operation Nordwind" further south.
To shorten your wait for the 3.1 patch, we will release a Mappack by Takir, which contains 3 "Nordwind" maps.
The Jagdtger will replace the buildable Kingtiger on these maps exclusively.
Wait, you can have map specific units?
That's pretty awesome.
sir Halftrack, let me try to convince you. ;)
~"One Major success of the Jagdtiger was on the 19th of December 1944 in the early days of the Battle of the Bulge. Two Jagdtigers were overwatching the town of Noville. An American Armored column consisting of eighteen Shermans were on their way to counter attack the attacking German forces, according to military records nine Sherman tanks were destroyed and three were disabled from a range greater than 2 miles."
source:
En.wikipedia.org
I just found one sentence "Nine Jagdtigers took part in the Ardennes Offensive with the 5th Panzer Army's strategic reserve", but not very confirmed. At that time only 1 Kompanie of sPzJäg.Abt.653 got their JT, but never reached Ardennes front.
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That does not convince me, I am afraid;) The first battle of Noville was mainly fought by 2nd Panzerdivision. They didnt have any Jagdtigers. They didnt even have Tigers.
but still, this is a very nice update of BotB.
we can still have them in some maps..
Cheers sir.
Actualy is better to have diffrent units on diffrent maps ...think abaut it :D
i saw on discovery channel a documentary in which a US sherman crew member told that they survived a hit from a jagtiger during the ardenne offensive only because the projective hit the radio at the back of the turret.forgot the name of the documentary though.
"Tanks" (Or just Greatest Tank Battles of History) Ive seen that too.
by Tarlak :) and not Takir ^^ enjoy them hope u all will like it
Operation Nordwind? I just have a look at wiki for information preparing for new translation.
Very atmospheric, looks amazing.
me like this update.. :)
plus,
some notes:
"In November 1944, s.Pz.Jäg.Abt.653 had only 12 Jagdtigers. 6 more Jagdtigers recieved during November. In December 1944, it was planned that the Jagdtigers should have taken part of the Ardennes offensive. 16 Jagdtigers are loaded onto trains, and two of the three trains unloaded 50 km. behind the front (as part of the 6.SS-Armee). Some Jagdtigers are diverted to Operation Nordwind, as part of the 17.SS-Panzer-Grenadier-Division."
While I'm not really that big a fan of the JT (even though the skin looks as great as usual), I'm really looking forward to the 3 new maps! :)
This is an excellent add! :) However it is a pity that divisions in-game won't correspond to the real divisions involved during this operation.. But i understand, it would require too much work.
AAA yes very good =)