For all you Chally fans, Ssnake has posted some interesting news over at Steelbeasts.com

http://www.steelbeasts.com/sbforums/showthread.php?t=15164

Woo Hoo!
Now I get to fight in the best tank ever made.

cool...thx

Looking forward to this, I hope we get the proper Brit voices with it too!

wow!

Voice actor volunteers, please contact me. There's still time to create a British voice localization. I will need a team leader, and at least four voice actors, better eight.

I'm no Terry Thomas but i'll give it a go.
What equipment are we going to need to help out?

In principle, just a PC with a sound card and a headset. And the means to send the files to the team leader, either via web transfer (Rapidshare or so) or by burning it onto a CD-ROM. Acting talent is a bonus.

I really can not wait for this one . the next would be a Warrior



Bullet

Daskal over at steelbeasts.com has started work on a sound mod for the Challenger,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emDOE3G1up0

sounds good to me

Hi Ssnake,

Since we have a Challenger on the way, might we one day possibly see a Chieftain to go with the other Cold War era tanks (M60, T62)? I would be happy even if it was AI only

Cheers,

Broken

I will never say no to the suggestion of adding a new tank model. But for the next PE release, I can't make promises.

The Challenger 2 thread over at steel beasts.com seems to indicate that the Challenger will be very well armored but its ammunition will be very weak. It looks like a head to head in the Chally against an m-1a1 or leo2a4 may be a tough road to hoe. The chally is hard to kill but it cant really kill any of the other tanks either.

Jack

This applies only to APFSDS rounds... and besides, for either side a flanking shot will be impossible to shrug off. So the art will be to move into an advantageous position, unseen. If at all, this should make for more interesting games as long as neither side forgets about not to engage frontally.

Second, don't forget about HESH. Certain parts of about ANY tank are still pretty vulnerable to it. They are just hard to reach, and the ammunition is darn slow.

Indeed you are correct, Ssnake. The hesh has quite a ballistic arc. Doesnt a gap in armor negate the effects of a hesh round? This means either another rear or flank shot or turret/hull top hit against a modern tank doesnt it?

Jack

Yes, air gaps add a lot of protection against HESH. But you can't put air gaps everywhere for overall volume restrictions (e.g. you still need to load a tank on a flatbed railway car, and it must still fit through tunnels - so most AFVs roofs are homogeneous steel, which makes them vulnerable. But of course, hitting the roof is a bit of a challenge. Doable, yes - but easy? No.

Beyond that, let's not forget about secondary HESH effects - fragmentation that can pepper sights and rip off external equipment, and with open hatches and unbuttoned crew - well, that one is obvious ... and with relatively recent historic precedence (sadly, a very unfortunate event).

But must at least bind frontally in oder to flank ;-)

...or use stealth and surprise.