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Old August 5th, 2010, 11:03 AM

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Default Re: V5.0 Russia OBA question.

Sorry don, should have said:

'units 7 and 8 should have vision <20'

Except that unit 8 is 57 entry, if the Luna set gets added in 59, then no point making a new unit or downgrading the existing one just for the two years that the T-55B had no active IR NV set !

Also, as per unit 6, the BMG on 7, 8, 9 are fixed units as opposed to ball mounts like the radio operators MMG on the T-34 series, the driver fires it with a trigger on the steering lever, and cannot aim it at all. Apparently the gun is fixed to fire at the ground about 250 meters ahead, so just good for spraying fire at close ranges to ward off a frontal assault, i.e mostly useless.

Also, unit 68 and unit 8 are basically the same, except for the ammo load and class, except that unit 68 has 4 top armor instead of 3, and weight 27 instead of 30.

On another note, what is vision 10 meant to represent, I assume it is basic passive vision intensification ? I don't actually have any evidence that any Russian tanks had anything more than telescopic sights before 55, and then it was active IR. So in this instance, <20 equals zero.

I have no idea what is going on with the icon, for some reason my icon 193 and 192 are a weird blocky very short hulled tank with wide hull and tracks and a 75-85 mm gun. I haven't edited them, as I don't even know how, unfortunately. Maybe it is corrupted somehow.

also, please don't take any of this as whingeing, I love the game and all the modding work done. Raising these queries is as much about getting my own facts straight about some of these things as anything else, and thought some people here might be experts and able to help.
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