New Projekt: Phcas & AKRebels "PAK"-Mod - RELEASE v3.40

[ajs81]

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Hello Panzer Corps PAK players.
You will get two new scenarios in the near future:
Kharkov 42 and Moscow 43.

[PeteMitchell]

Wow, you guys really rock!!

[MjrOu812]

Glad to see this MOD still has a little life....Phcas you guys still going to finish big units?

[AKRebel]

Glad to see this MOD still has a little life....Phcas you guys still going to finish big units?

Hello MjrOu812,

yes, we will gradually continue to create the BIG units as color photos.
However, the creation takes a little longer with over 7000 units.
We aim to update one part with every update. With this amount it can take a while.

[Vano2004]

That the mod is alive and developing only pleases ! How soon is the new update scheduled ?

Color photographs of the Second World War
A selection of color photographs of the Second World War, the Eastern Fron
https://foto-history.livejournal.com/14697448.html
https://doseng.org/interesnoe/104739-cv ... voyny.html
https://back-in-ussr.com/2020/10/redcha ... voyny.html
https://en.topwar.ru/42854-velikaya-ote ... cvete.html
https://arzamas.academy/mag/430-photos_iiww

[MjrOu812]

Glad to see this MOD still has a little life....Phcas you guys still going to finish big units?

Hello MjrOu812,

yes, we will gradually continue to create the BIG units as color photos.
However, the creation takes a little longer with over 7000 units.
We aim to update one part with every update. With this amount it can take a while.

Ok....good to here, thats a big task given how many units there are? Good luck

[terminator]

Hello Panzer Corps PAK players.
You will get two new scenarios in the near future:
Kharkov 42 and Moscow 43.

Beautiful map of Kharkov in 1942

[phcas]

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That the mod is alive and developing only pleases ! How soon is the new update scheduled ?

The new update will come very soon, somewere in the next days.

You will find hundreds of new Big unit color photos.

In the UI folder you will also find a bigunit(alt) folder. In this bigunit(alt) folder you will find the continuation of the old style bigunits for the people who want to use them. 378 new pictures.

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A lot of new aircraft by Wurschtmaxe are in the mod now and a lot of Luftwaffe/RAF aircraft are improved in detail, and this will continu in the next update.

Update v0.70 is finished and send to AKRebel who will put it online if he finished his thing about it. Work on update v0.80 already started.

Greetings PHCAS

[ajs81]

Hello Panzer Corps PAK players.
You will get two new scenarios in the near future:
Kharkov 42 and Moscow 43.

Beautiful map of Kharkov in 1942

Thank you. As always I used google maps to copy it to Panzer Corps. There could be one problem, villages' names. In 1941 there were different than today. I tried to check all of them but some of them are not on Wikipedia. Some of them changed their names in 2014-15 (anti-communism act) so maybe some names are not the same as were in 1942?!
But! There is another advantage. While the map is ready it is no problem to create a new scenario - Kharkov 43

BTW, the scenario is ready, it is a small map 75x80 (small like for PAK mode hahaha).

[terminator]

Hello Panzer Corps PAK players.
You will get two new scenarios in the near future:
Kharkov 42 and Moscow 43.

Beautiful map of Kharkov in 1942

Thank you. As always I used google maps to copy it to Panzer Corps. There could be one problem, villages' names. In 1941 there were different than today. I tried to check all of them but some of them are not on Wikipedia. Some of them changed their names in 2014-15 (anti-communism act) so maybe some names are not the same as were in 1942?!
But! There is another advantage. While the map is ready it is no problem to create a new scenario - Kharkov 43

BTW, the scenario is ready, it is a small map 75x80 (small like for PAK mode hahaha).

And maybe even Operation Polkovodets Rumiantsev ("Fourth Battle of Kharkov") on the Soviet side ?

Who will go and check the names of the villages ? Surely not me

[ajs81]

Beautiful map of Kharkov in 1942

Thank you. As always I used google maps to copy it to Panzer Corps. There could be one problem, villages' names. In 1941 there were different than today. I tried to check all of them but some of them are not on Wikipedia. Some of them changed their names in 2014-15 (anti-communism act) so maybe some names are not the same as were in 1942?!
But! There is another advantage. While the map is ready it is no problem to create a new scenario - Kharkov 43

BTW, the scenario is ready, it is a small map 75x80 (small like for PAK mode hahaha).

And maybe even Operation Polkovodets Rumiantsev ("Fourth Battle of Kharkov") on the Soviet side ?

Who will go and check the names of the villages ? Surely not me

As I wrote these words, I was thinking about people from Ukraine who might be playing this game. I am a geographic purist. The maps must look like the real thing. Because the truth is geography decides where a battle takes place. Even here in Kharkiv. As I looked at the decisions of the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, we can see that their decisions were based on what the terrain looked like. The 6th Red Army struck Krasnograd because there was a railway line connecting the city with Kharkiv and they bypassed the dense forest on the right (today Homilsha Woods National Nature Park) -> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... e/Gom1.jpg

While the idea of adding the battle for Kharkiv III and IV is a good idea because it shows how important the city was for both sides, ... I don't know if the players will be bored with the fact that they play the same map 3 times (only the units would be different and goals)

[Vano2004]

The Germans had accurate maps) Hitler's intelligence always worked against the Soviet Union. Of course, in 1937 and in the following years of mass repression, along with tens of thousands of innocent people, a considerable number of German agents were "swept away". This greatly weakened the position of the Germans. But immediately after the Polish war, the Abwehr went on the offensive.

One of the Abwehr operations that historians have little noticed was the admission to the USSR by the Soviet leadership at the request of Hitler of those Germans who "would like to find the graves of relatives" who died in the war of 1914-1918. These seasoned spies went around, circled, crawled literally the entire territory that would become the battlefield of another war, 1941-1945, and it was no accident that we, front-line officers, preferred to have German, rather than our Soviet maps of the area — they were more accurate and modern, and we were only surprised: how could the Germans have made them?

Of course, not only legal and illegal German spies made these maps. Dozens and hundreds of German aircraft-violators flew over our territory and photographed it. Only in May and 10 days of June 1941, 91 German aircraft violated the USSR border.

From June 10 to June 19, 86 cases of violation of the USSR border by foreign aircraft were recorded (Germany - 63, Finland - 9, Hungary - 2, Romania - 12 cases). On June 20-21, 55 cases of border violations took place.
http://greatoperation.narod.ru/4/barbarosa.htm



Kiev , Harkov 1940

Ukrainian SSR

Byelorussian SSR

Minsk
http://www.atlas1940.narod.ru/main.htm

[terminator]

Thank you. As always I used google maps to copy it to Panzer Corps.

Based on the current google maps, there are inevitably changes compared to 1942: roads could be built, cities enlarged, villages unified, rivers were diverted...

[ajs81]

Thank you. As always I used google maps to copy it to Panzer Corps.

Based on the current google maps, there are inevitably changes compared to 1942: roads could be built, cities enlarged, villages unified, rivers were diverted...

In general, this is true, most of Europe has changed on this subject, but not so much Ukraine or Russia. Yes, Kharkiv is bigger now, but railroads and roads are between the same villages as they were.

Example - around the Desna River https://www.google.pl/maps/@52.7731222, ... i13612!8i6

around Prohorovka
https://www.google.pl/maps/@50.8987229, ... 312!8i6656

Krasnograd area (south of Kharkiv)
https://www.google.pl/maps/@49.349174,3 ... 312!8i6656

But I am convinced that global warming has lowered the level of the rivers and they are no longer as wide as they were during the war or the forests so dense.

[Vano2004]

No, it's definitely not the case to look at maps in Google maps)))

One of the forms of the Nazi policy of genocide and scorched earth in the occupied Soviet territory was the destruction of settlements, and most often together with their inhabitants. In the book "The Destruction of cities and villages in Europe during the Second World War" edited by V.I. Zabarovsky, we can read that throughout the USSR the Germans destroyed 1,710 cities and more than 70 thousand villages and villages. Only a few of them managed to be reborn from the ashes.

Source: "Scorched Earth Tactics": how many Soviet villages were destroyed by the Germans - Russian Seven

https://russian7.ru/post/taktika-vyzhzh ... skolko-so/

And this means that they will never enter into any online maps of the 21st century !

https://www.maps4u.lt/en/maps.php?cat=100

https://xabar.in.ua/genshtab-karty-old/
http://clubklad.ru/maps/1788/
http://militarymaps.narod.ru/maps.html#2000_6
https://xn--80aaxgqbdi.xn--p1ai/publ/1/ ... karty/13-4

[ajs81]

When I use google maps, I do not forget about the history. After all, today there is no Voroshilovgrad anymore and there is Luhansk All the cities that are on the map of Kharkiv 42 still exist today, such as Krasnograd, Izyum, Chuhuiv, Balakliya and Belgorod where they were. There are no villages on this map. Which does not change the fact that hundreds of villages east of the Vistula were burnt down during the war.

[heymann2323]

Hey will you add more Japan Units ? Maybe more fortification for they.. i want to make large maps in the Pazific.. for now i have Okinawa 900×700 size

[ajs81]

Hey will you add more Japan Units ? Maybe more fortification for they.. i want to make large maps in the Pazific.. for now i have Okinawa 900×700 size

900 x 700? wow, I was thinking that World at War was big 850x415... so this file has more than 65,5 Mb!!!!

[Vano2004]

First of all , we need to make China , it has been fighting since 1931 ! For the Chinese , the Second World War began before anyone else ( since 1937 , blood began to flow like a river before that there were skirmishes )
https://wwii.space/05-12-37-%D0%B7%D0%B ... %BA%D0%B8/
https://nuker82.livejournal.com/349350.html

[Turtler]

Yah, I admit. Some kind of large scale "Battlefield Europe" style handling of the Chinese Resistance War would be fascinating for me. One question would be: which side?