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

[lennis29]

Seals and their contributions hahaha very well.

[cw58]

An icon useful for the enthusiats of siege artillery units: a railroad transport icon for moving around such very heavy loads...

Enjoy!

Guille, would you happen to have an empty, flat rail car icon in your library that you would be willing to share? I'm sure I could put it to good use in the future.

[guille1434]

Hello Cw58, here is some railroad stuff...

[Vintage]

Superb!

[cw58]

Perfect! That's just what I wanted.

[guille1434]

Some German mortar units icons (or as the German called those weapons: Granat Werfer).

Thanks to Lennis29 who uploaded a nice icon for the 8 cm GrWerfer 34 (credit to him), and a 12 cm GrWerfer 42 from my icon chest...

Enjoy!

[lennis29]

redesign to 120mm

[lennis29]

animation morse 120mm.

[guille1434]

Hello to all:

Now, it´s the turn of a desert warrior. The Crusader tank, in the following variants:

- Crusader Mk.I: Regular gun tank variant, with a 40 mm (2 pdr) gun and auxiliary machine gun turret
- Crusader Mk.II: Close support version, with a 76 mm howitzer in place of the 40 mm gun. This one, with icons for a direct fire and another for indirect fire switches...

Enjoy!!

[guille1434]

...And, the same variety of icons for the Crusader Mk.II
Compared to the Mk.I, this version had thicker front armor, and the auxiliary machine gun turret was not installed on its front hull.

[Vintage]

Excellent as always

[cw58]

More goodies! Thanks, Guille.

[guille1434]

Thanks to you for the positive comments, guys!

[guille1434]

Now, an ubiquitous unit... the Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider. This gun, was designed by the French in World War I, and was still in widespread use at the start of the Second World War. I worken on this unit because in the vanilla game the Polish faction did not have a heavy artillery unit in the 150 mm class. The icon present in this pack is suitable colored to be used as a unit for the Polish, and other Weatern Allies: France, Belgium, for example.
This gun was used by the following countries in the Second World War, relevant to PzCorps:

- France (of course!)
- Poland
- Belgium
- Germany (captured from the Polish, and also from the French).
- USA (made a modernized version, the 155mm Howitzer M1918, with pneumatic tires, and a straight shield instead of the original curved one) ---> Coming Soon
- United Kingdom: Received some M1918s from USA early in the war
- Italy: Captured very few fron the French and also some more from the Greeks.
- Soviet Union: Purchased some from France, and also supposedly captured several guns from the Polish, but they were not seen in service by the German when they invaded in 1941.
- Finland: Purchased some from the French, and after that another batch from German captured stocks.
- Australia: Used in the Middle East
- Greece: Used against the Italians in 1940, then captured by this last country when Greece surrendered.
- Yugoslavia: the ones the country had were captured by the Germans.
- Spain: Used by both parties during the Civil War.
- Romania: Receive some pieces from the Germans.

What´s in the pack? The howitzer (without crew) in an indirect an direct fire switches, also version of those icons with Polish artillerymen, and two separate templates with slightly different versions of crewmen to use on this gun icon (or be adapted to other artillery pieces).
Credits to McGuba (Ithink he improved the wheels from the vanilla game icon) and Phcas for the original concept of the gun crews.

[uzbek2012]

Great gun )

[Buffalohump]

Greetings Guille,
I return to the forum to find you have returned and it is good to see your work. I would like to ask if you have a Bristol Beaufighter in U.S. markings among your collection. It is one of my personal favorite aircraft and I would love to add it to my US campaign. I know the US used it early in Africa.
Regards,
Buffalohump

[captainjack]

It's good to have some extra crusaders, and the icons are excellent as usual.
The CS versions of all early British tanks suffered from too short a range to be really useful for much other than smoke screens, but I recall reading that the CS matildas were well liked for jungle conditions because short HE range wasn't an issue when you were in a matilda. Driving up to something in a thick metal box and blowing it up at close range sounds to me like the proper use of an infantry tank.

[guille1434]

Hello Buffalo and CaptJack! It´s always a good thing to see the veterans return to the front trenches!! Welcome back!

Buffalo: I don´t think I have a good Beaufighter (one of my favourite also) in US markings, but I will make an attempt on making some icons in desert and european camo. Stay tuned!

Capt: I did not know that CS versions of British tanks suffered from lack of range, I knew that they were frequently used to lay smoke screens intead of pumping HE to enemy defenses, but I thought it was more like a doctrinal matter of British war manuals (like for example they don´t use the 94 mm AA guns in anti tank role as the Germans used their 88 mm guns). Notwithstanding that, the indirect fire icons can be used to provide short range support fire for adjacent infantry units when attacked (may be giving range = 1, moderate SA and very low HA values).

Also, that there was a CS version of Matilda II tank is very good news to me, they would make a nice addition to my collection!



thanks to both of you for your comments and for dropping by!

[McGuba]

Now, an ubiquitous unit... the Canon de 155 C modèle 1917 Schneider.

Nice, and yes, it was indeed me who tried to improve the spoked wheels as I did not really like the vanilla version. There is a small remark here, it looks like you forgot to change the small icon of the AT version. It is funny because I also often forget it when I make a modified icon: I just modify the bigger "normal" size one and then I am so happy that I just leave it like that

[captainjack]

Wikipedia mentions Matilda III (the CS version) being very popular with Australian forces in the far east. I recall some more reliable sources (probably axis history forum) mentioning the Australians deliberately trying to get as many as possible.
The early cruisers also had CS versions, as did the Valentines. Basically the 3" gun was more of a mortar rather than a real gun and wasn't suited to taking out anti tank guns byond mg range, but good smoke cover hides a lot of things and the proportion of he vs smoke changed over time and from mission to mission so they must have been useful, even if a bit short of what was really needed.
It seems that New Zealand used Valentine CS converted using 3" guns taken from Australian CS Matildas.