Forgotten Hope 2 is an award-winning World War II modification for Battlefield 2TM and is based on the original Forgotten Hope, a modification for Battlefield 1942TM, one of the most popular multiplayer games ever. Battlefield 1942TM featured land, sea and air combat in a way never before seen. It was the goal of the development team to maximize the game experience by adding both a realistic and enjoyable gameplay to FH and now to FH2.
France was one of the major users of the tank in the First World War, and while the Germans never were able to catch up some thought was still put towards developing something that infantry in the front line could use to defeat attacking tanks. Two ideas would be prototyped, a 13mm anti-tank rifle and a high velocity 17mm gun that could use the mount of the existing SA 16 37mm infantry support gun. The armistice put an end to this experimenting, but the idea of a high velocity low calibre gun remained.
In 1926, Hotchkiss presented the army with a 25mm anti-tank gun on a light portable carriage. It would take until 1934 after extensive trials and the threat of German rearmament before it would be adopted as the SA 34. It was a very small and portable gun, weighing only 490 kg total, and could easily be manhandled by its 6 man crew into all sorts of unusual positions. The 25×193.5mmR ammunition was potent, and could easily deal with any German tank in 1940 out to 500 metres or more. There was only solid shot available, either with or without tracer. The main downside of this low weight was fragility - it could not be towed at more than 15 km/h.
There would be a couple of variants made: the shorter barrel SA 35 for mounting in vehicles and an even lighter weight SA 37. In total, about 6000 were made, of which 300 were traded to the BEF in 1939 in exchange for Boys anti-tank rifles. Finland also ordered 50 during the Winter War, though only 20 arrived in time to be used. They would buy 200 more from the Germans before the Continuation War. They would continue to serve with various Axis powers and the Free French up until about 1943, at which point they were generally discarded as being totally outclassed by newer tank armour. Our SA 34 was made by Seth Soldier.