Guille's PzCorps Support Base - Multipurpose Icons and more.

[AugustinMalar]

So does your picture indicate the Russians are running away from the Finns?

Actually, yes. The Finns achieved quite an impressive kill to loss ratio during the Winter War, despite they were mostly using old-fashioned planes and they were massively outnumbered:

Finnish fighter pilots often dove into Soviet formations that outnumbered them ten or even twenty times. Finnish fighters shot down 240 confirmed Soviet aircraft, against the Finnish loss of 26.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_war ... Winter_War

So the Soviet planes should run away to the opposite direction when seeing the Fokkers.

[guille1434]

McGuba: Nice work touching up and scaling the Fokker D.XXI. Completely agree with your reasons for those. Will keep this icon as the last version of that unit in my collection. I was just wandering about the "non-mirrored" finnish swastika, but got lazy in the research part of the Project... It is good to know that the icon looks "at home" when put between bebro's!!!
And, yes, Winter War was one of the most one-sided (related to casualty rates between sides) wars in history.

[guille1434]

And about the Winter War... Here is a little artillery unit that was used by the Soviets and also by the Finnish, the 76 mm M1902, also known as 76 K 02... I attached a .rar file with an unit pack comprising the icons in Soviet and Finnish colors, the two of them in artillery and direct fire versions, in a sub-folder you will find the base icons and masks to add to de DCS software in order to skin them as you please.

[guille1434]

Well, now here is a "very" original unit... I did the icon for the Laffly W-15TCC taking as a base the image I include in this post. I like the results very much...
About this unit in-game stats, I was thinking that as it is an almost purely "defensive" unit (it has the gun pointing to the rear) it would be good to make an icon for a "fire" version and the othger for the "move" version. This way, we can make the unit switchable between "move mode" may be with negative [and somewhat reduced?] SA y HA values, making it unable to attack, but fire back if attacked, and to "attack mode" with full attack stats but without movement, meaning the unit is waiting in ambush for the enemy to approach.

In the .rar file you will find icons for the "fire" and "move" versions in the following schemes:
- Vanilla game french units light Brown.
- Desert one-color scheme.
- European camouflage scheme (useful for an SE unit?)
- Frenchies Unit Pack compatible blue-grey color.

Enjoy!

PS: Due to feedback, improved the icons a bit and re-uploaded them. Mainly, the gun barrel was not very visible when the icon was on green hexes, so I hope they look right now.

[guille1434]

Also, a derivative from the previous unit, the Laffly S-45T transport vehicle. In normal light Brown, desert color and blue-grey...

[bebro]

Cool job with those Laffly gfx - the French unit roster really needs them

[McGuba]

Nice work with the Putilov light field gun. I am under the impression that you used my original icon made for the Hungarian campaign. You might want to do the same conversion with the M1902/30 and the M1936 guns as these have no AT versions at the moment.

Also nice work with the Laffy. Your original icons are getting better and better. I really appreciate that you try to make units in vanilla style as these go together well with the stock units. I am trying to do the same. I think this is the right way.

[airbornemongo101]

Guille..as alwyas your work is amazing.

When I find time I defintiely will be adding your camo'd switches into the Elite Units.

[guille1434]

McGuba: Indeed, I took as a base the icon from the Hungarian Mod (as this mod has tons of beautifully crafted, original, game-looking icons). Sorry for not mentioning it. I will try to make the At conversions to the M1902/30 and M1936 guns, also...
And about the "vanilla style" of new icons, we could not agree more here... I find very pleasant to my eyes to see that the newly added icons have the same "style" as the others when they are on the game map, making the game more enjoyable. I think many other people is of the same opinion about this...

As a disclaimer: Unless I mention that an icon is an "original" work, all other units are derivations from vanilla game and/or game mods, as I am more of an "Icon modder" than "Icon creator". By the way, this should not prevent me to mention the source of the work involved... As I tend to start several projects more or less at once, sometimes I forget to trace the source stuff for those projects. So, if anyone feels that should be given credit, please tell me to do so, I will never have a problem mentioning the creator of any piece of work, as I do not intend to make look as mine any other person creations.

Airborne: You (or anyone here) can use all the stuff I post in this forum in any way he/she likes... I enjoy doing this "work" as much as I enjoy playing this wonderful game with the additions you people are offering here, so mine is for anyone to download and try. Besides, many of my "switched" units took as base the icons of your mod

Bebro: I really appreciate that an "Icon Master-Wizard" find my stuff "cool", this is no small thing...

To all: Thanks for the nice words!!!!

[McGuba]

No problem at all. We (modders) all create and release stuff for anyone to download and try. Otherwise we would just keep them on our hard drive to ourselves until the end of the world. But, if we do so, and do it for free (as opposed to the publishing companies of the original games), credit should be given to the creators of new or modified material in, my view. I also noticed that after some time it is very hard to trace back the source of an icon or other material. Thus I have added a long list of the used icons and their creators to the readme file of the latest release of my mod. I wanted to make it now while I still remember (more or less) the creators of the unit icons I was using. A few years later, so to speak, it would be impossible to do the same. I do not claim that the list is enirely correct, though. It was quite difficult, for example, to find out that the CR.32 icon I had been using for a while was made by zombiehunter1977 some time ago.

Please continue to work on the vanilla/new/modified icons as your work greatly enhances this awsome game.

[guille1434]

Thanks McGuba! You perfectly understand the "modder mood"!
You should continue also with your current work, as it adds a lot of enjoyment value to this game, too!

[guille1434]

Ok, just re-uploaded the Laffly W-15TCC icons, with some improvements (the gun barrel was not showing well on the map). So go get the new version!

By the way, I was working in some other projects also...

Now, you can have the direct fire version of the sIG 33 Infantry gun, the excellent icon made by Bebro, just made "switchable"... Enjoy!

[guille1434]

Another "conversion" Project... The BT-7A Artillery Tank. This was a version of the BT-7 fast tank, with a turret armed with a short barrel 76 mm howitzer, made the direct fire and the Artillery modes for the unit. I hope you like it.

The game icons, base icons for DCS and masks are included in the .rar file.

[guille1434]

Also I continued working on the very good icons McGuba did for his Hungarian Mod.
Here is the 73mm M1902/30 gun, made switchable, in direct fire and artillery modes.

[Razz1]

I was reading up on this BT-7 howitzer vehicle and thought, how unique and fairy effective.

However with the weight of the guns and shells it reduced the speed.

I wondering if it should be a range one or two?

[guille1434]

Yes, the Russians had some very interesting vehicle concepts in early war, I think their problem was not vehicle quality, but the way they employed them. I would give the BT-7A an in-game range of two hexes (like a short barrelled 76 mm towed gun). But maybe we need to research the range of the gun (related to the max elevation allowable when mounted in the BT-7A turret. As a rule of thumb, I would give a two hex range to anything with more than 5000 m range...

[guille1434]

Another McGuba icon, from the Hungarian Mod, made switchable (some changes were made to the shield shape, also). This is the 76 mm M1936 Gun, which was used by the Soviet Army, but also captured in quantity by the Germans, which used it as the FK 296 (r) and also gave some guns to Finnish Army, so here you have an icon pack, comprising the soviet, german and finnish icons in AT and Arty versions, also included are the base icons and masks for the DCS software.

Enjoy!

[guille1434]

Ok, I was making some more work on units... The following is an original unit, but took as a template the vanilla icon for the P-40 (the wings, mainly).
Now it comes the P-36 attack! This little fioghter was the "father" of the Curtiss P-40, ans was sold to many countries, some of them used this unit in the war: France, Uk, USA, Holland, Finland, China...

So, here is a pack including the following:

1 x USA P-36A
1 x UK Mohawk
2 x Finland Hawk 75A (in uniform color dark blue-gray and a camouflaged unit)
2 x France Hawk 75A (in vanilla light brown and french blue gray scheme)
1 x Holland Hawk 75A

Also I include the Base Icon and Mask to make other color schemes as well...
I hope you like them!

[guille1434]

And yet another exclusive original work! The Deacon British SP AT gun... Found a good little internet image and decided to make an icon out of it. I like the result very much! I hope you too!
Included: Deacon in vanilla British dark brown, another with a yellow desert scheme (took from the original image I found), and also the Base Icon and Mask for the DCS software. I found a nice b&w phot of the vehicle, and adapted it to be used as a big unit portrait.

[guille1434]

Here are some of the icons inside the Deacon pack, ready for game action!