Czechoslovak Resources Thread - Totaler Krieg: 1939-45 mod for Battle of Empires : 1914-1918

Well, if you really are going to make Exile Czechoslovak soldiers, here are few pictures for you -

(sorry for low quality, scanned from one of my books)
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Czechoslovaks on eastern front - note British style uniforms with helmets painted in white ( acts as "winter camo" )

Czechoslovaks on Western front had typical British uniforms, just with Czech flags on shoulder. And as i said - Tanks were usually painted with patriotic lines or nicknames like "Lidice" , "Pravda Vitezi!" or something else (Cant think of anything right now)

Edited by: MartyForEels

Thanks for that, will come in handy.

Sturm

Ok, now literally HUGE Czechoslovak uniforms resources.

En.zeny-bojujici.cz - During attack, note trenchocats and white painted british helmets.
En.zeny-bojujici.cz - Czechoslovak female sniper, note mosin-nagant sniper rifle and again - white painted helmet.
En.zeny-bojujici.cz - Czechoslovak female soldiers at Buzuluk base in Russia (1st army corps has been created there)
I35.photobucket.com - Defensive positions.
Collect-helmets.snadno.eu - AA/AT gunners. Once again - note white painted British helmets.
Quido.cz - Famous LIDICE tank. It took almost 150 direct hits trough whole war, yet it was always succesfully repaired and dead or injured crew has been replaced. Its now currently as memoiral in Czech capital.
Galerie.palba.cz - Another famous tank, ZIZKA (Named after Bohemian leader from 15th century) in historic military exhibition.

I think it would have been interesting to create atleast one winter map where mostly Czechoslovak based forces would be impleted.

Edited by: MartyForEels

Great resources Marty, thanks.

I will definately add the Czechs, first however I need to find voice files. Will Hungarian voices from the 19th Century suffice for the Czechs (I.e Ripping audio from a napoleonic game)?

Sturm

Surely not. Well, these two are totally different languages. Hungarian is urallic (read - Its really fast and hard to understand if you arent native speaker), while Czech is slavic - Its slow, complicated, yet easy to understand once you speak. I might get you actual Czech voices from one crappy FPS - Beg i will find something that would fit into WW2 game.

Ok thanks, I thought former Czech was part of Hungary in the 19th Century and Astro-hungary in the early 20th Century. Unfortunately there is no Czechs in the game im talking about.

Sturm

First, there has been Czech Kingdom since like 6th century until 1526 (It has been really big - From Adriatic sea to Baltic sea in days of its biggest glory) when Habsburgs took Czech throne. Czech lands always had pretty good amount of independence - Own language, schools, culture...

And than there has been second part of future Czechoslovakia - Slovakia. While Czech lands were under Austria control, Slovakia has been inside Hungaria teritory. They had own language (Slovak) , yet Hungarians didnt allow their independence grow like Austrians did.

Finally, 1st world war stopped and Czechs and Slovaks formed new state - Czechoslovakia, with both languages (Czech and Slovak) official. They were in one state because of historical relationship and kinda similiar language. In 1938, with Munich agreement (act of betrayal by Western "allies"), Czechoslovakia got under Hitlers control and separated into protectorate Bohemia and Moravia (former Czech lands) and Slovakian state. After WW2, Czechoslovakia emerged once again - yet commanded by communists for 40 years. In 1989, Communists were kicked out. In 1993, Czechoslovakia separated into Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.

Edited by: MartyForEels