New German Units

[William]

We are currently trying to figure out some new units for the German side. We have several ideas including the following:
Hetzer
Wespe
Marder III

We are also trying to find things to do with infantry such as new units or weapons, and possibly new doctrine abilities. We are trying to keep the game feel more like vCoH kind of like an expansion pack (it would go very nicely with Opposing Fronts ) 
Discuss..

[Fritzel990]

You can't forget the good ole' Tiger II, newbielink:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_II [nonactive]. Make sure to include something insanely powerful like... newbielink:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_cm_Gustav [nonactive].

[NoHands]

What about the big bertha rail gun? it was like a big cannon on a open topped cart pulled by a locomotive that fired 1 tonne shells

[Tim270]

So much for a balanced mod then nohands 

[NoHands]

actualylt he gustav the otehr guy suggested fires 7 ton shells up to 32 kms so i guess i was actually balancing it... anyways teh gustav should cost like 3000 panzers or something
and take ages to move and build

[Tim270]

Or we could always use it as a doctrine artillery.

[NoHands]

and that means?....

[ice_killer]

and that means?....

you dont know what that is ? then you never play's whit the axis

[NoHands]

I have NEVER played CoH i jsut made the site for Will.. i hear tis great just i cant be bothered buying it and downloading it takes forever

[ice_killer]

I have NEVER played CoH i jsut made the site for Will.. i hear tis great just i cant be bothered buying it and downloading it takes forever

buy it  buy it it is sutch a good game 

[Lone Commissar]

I can see the Gustav working like the V1. A giant artillery shell hurtling out of the sky and creating a big hole in an opponents base. It shouldn't be barrage though as the gun couldn't be loaded that quick. Big Bertha probably wouldn't work as well as it fires shells half the size, Karl mortars might work as well though. The King Tiger sounds like a good idea as well as there is already a released model for mods on the Relic forums.

We won't need the Hetzer and the Marder III ofr there both TD on the Panzer 38 tonne. I would go with the Hetzer for there were more built and it succeeded the Marder III. However it wasn't put into production until 1944 so when is the mod set? If it's Barbarossa to Berlin we'll need both. As a final note its name isn't official like Tiger and Panther the official name is Jadgpanzer 38(t) it was only called Hetzer by German troops which was only referenced by one message from Guderian to Hitler, the name then became popualar with historians and is thus in many books. Just thought you might enjoy the information.

The Wespe should work well as a SPA piece.

Now for my contribution towards infantry. How about putting in the Fallschirmjäger or some of the Baltic and Ukranian SS (I think there was a Ukranian SS anyway) although I don't know how these would be all that different to the existing troops.
 

[Tim270]

Now for my contribution towards infantry. How about putting in the Fallschirmjäger or some of the Baltic and Ukranian SS (I think there was a Ukranian SS anyway) although I don't know how these would be all that different to the existing troops.

Its pretty easy to copy a unit, rename it and reskin it, so we can always take the grenadiers for example and reskin them as another unit while leaving the normal grenadiers in the same place.

[Lone Commissar]

Yeah but I mean what would it add having an identical unit in all but name?

[Cherni_95]

Maybe with permission you guys could use material from OF, say like the German Vehicles

[William]

I wish we could but the thing is, if they let us use there vehicles, who would buy the xpack    It would be a good idea for us to have it compatible though