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Okay, here's another treat. The Halberstadt fighter (Halberstadt D.II, though the D.III, D.IV and D.V looked practically the same. First the Turkish version, but I have two or three more coming your way soon.

Can't wait for the German Halberstadt then.

I seriuosly don't know how you are making all those units so quickly! I'm still about 18 units behind you in terms of adding them, but have decided to do some other stuff until the flood of icons stops, and then I'll just add them all at once.

- BNC

List on page 1 updated.

- BNC

BiteNibbleChomp wrote:Can't wait for the German Halberstadt then.

I seriuosly don't know how you are making all those units so quickly! I'm still about 18 units behind you in terms of adding them, but have decided to do some other stuff until the flood of icons stops, and then I'll just add them all at once.

- BNC

Here's the German Halberstadt then. Oh wait, it's three different Halberstadts One in blue, one in red with the psychodelic German late-war camo ("Buntfarbenaufdruck") and one in dull and boring green on brown stripes. As with the Turkish sprite above, these three can be used for all versions of Halberstadt as the differences between them were pretty minor: two MGs instead of one, different engine and so on. Or you could use some of them for SE units.

Hope you like them.

And another pretty unique design: Hansa-Brandenburg W.29. The floatplane fighter could be a nice addition to any late-war scenario. This one comes in both German and Turkish liveries. Enjoy!

BiteNibbleChomp wrote: An Entente Fighter in Italian Colours

- BNC

It took some work to re-skin this beauty, but the result is satisfactory I believe. Here's a SPAD S.VII in Italian colours. And not just any SPAD, it's the plane flown by none other than Francesco Baracca. Doesn't ring any bells? Italy's top fighter ace of WWI is today remembered not only for his bravery, but also for the fact that his mother gave the rights to his emblem to Enzo Ferrari, who used the stallion logo for his cars ever since. You can't really see the stallion at this scale, but it's there.

Okay, there's a chance I'll have to leave for a week tomorrow, so I guess it's the last of my icons for some time. In case anyone wanted to pick up the work, I posted a detailed instruction in my other thread. The process of turning BF1942 models into Panzer Corps sprites is a little time-consuming, but it's still way easier than making the 3D models from scratch. And the result is much better than working with 2D pics.
Cheers

Halibutt wrote:Okay, there's a chance I'll have to leave for a week tomorrow, so I guess it's the last of my icons for some time. In case anyone wanted to pick up the work, I posted a detailed instruction in my other thread. The process of turning BF1942 models into Panzer Corps sprites is a little time-consuming, but it's still way easier than making the 3D models from scratch. And the result is much better than working with 2D pics.
Cheers

Thanks for everything that you've done.

- BNC

Did I say it's the last one? I forgot to post the M16 Chamond tank then. THIS is the last one then.

BiteNibbleChomp wrote:Thanks for everything that you've done.
- BNC

My pleasure It was fun, like working on model aeroplanes, except no glue involved and more people can watch the results.

Wow I never heard of that beast before!, Amazing piece of job halibutt!

Halibutt wrote:Did I say it's the last one?

Yes. Precisely:

Halibutt wrote:it's the last of my icons for some time

The Chamond Tank? OK I've only heard the name of this - no idea what it actually was. Cool icon, but i dunno if I'll ever add the unit (most tanks are quite OP, and I don't need too many of them).

- BNC

Akkula wrote:Wow I never heard of that beast before!, Amazing piece of job halibutt!

Truly a beast it was. Cumbersome, not really manoeuvrable, but it was roughly the size of WWII Panther tank. Plus, it was pretty innovative. Tank design eventually went in the direction of FT-17, but Saint-Chamond had a few innovative parts as well. For instance spaced armour in front: 11mm of steel was reinforced with an additional layer of 8,5 mm of reinforced steel, which gave the tank enough protection to sustain most hits.

BiteNibbleChomp wrote:The Chamond Tank? OK I've only heard the name of this - no idea what it actually was. Cool icon, but i dunno if I'll ever add the unit (most tanks are quite OP, and I don't need too many of them).

- BNC

That's too bad, they add a lot of flavour. And it takes quite a lot of skill to destroy a KV tank or T35 in vanilla scenarios, and WWI tanks were a similar opponent in their epoch. But the choice of course is yours.
Cheers

Halibutt wrote:

Akkula wrote:Wow I never heard of that beast before!, Amazing piece of job halibutt!

Truly a beast it was. Cumbersome, not really manoeuvrable, but it was roughly the size of WWII Panther tank. Plus, it was pretty innovative. Tank design eventually went in the direction of FT-17, but Saint-Chamond had a few innovative parts as well. For instance spaced armour in front: 11mm of steel was reinforced with an additional layer of 8,5 mm of reinforced steel, which gave the tank enough protection to sustain most hits.

BiteNibbleChomp wrote:The Chamond Tank? OK I've only heard the name of this - no idea what it actually was. Cool icon, but i dunno if I'll ever add the unit (most tanks are quite OP, and I don't need too many of them).

- BNC

That's too bad, they add a lot of flavour. And it takes quite a lot of skill to destroy a KV tank or T35 in vanilla scenarios, and WWI tanks were a similar opponent in their epoch. But the choice of course is yours.
Cheers

It takes enough skill, as well as pounding by the brand new Siege Artillery, to destroy a Mk IV anyway. A Chamond would be like taking on a Tiger with a 3.7 gun or similar. I'll hold on to the icon, and see if I can make it work someday.

- BNC

BiteNibbleChomp wrote:It takes enough skill, as well as pounding by the brand new Siege Artillery, to destroy a Mk IV anyway. A Chamond would be like taking on a Tiger with a 3.7 gun or similar. I'll hold on to the icon, and see if I can make it work someday.

- BNC

That's an interesting topic BTW. I believe all WWI tanks (perhaps with the exception of FT-17) should be relatively weak in close quarters. So they should be great at breaking through entrenched infantry, but should be vulnerable to arty and engineers/stormtroopers/whatnot. Also, they should not be able to keep up with the infantry - their theoretical speed did not make up for the rate at which they broke down.

They suffer badly from artillery, especially the heavier ones (Medium, and mostly Heavy and Siege). They can bust through most things when atacking, but have limited ammo and fuel, so are simply a 1-hit tool.

I agree, an interesting topic.

- BNC

BiteNibbleChomp wrote: Ottoman Infantry '14/'16
Ottoman Infantry '18

Since you didn't like my earlier Ottoman infantry, here's another one. Two of the guys wear white cotton summer uniforms, the officer kneeling in front of them with the wire is wearing khaki. In fact in 1914 the Ottomans used a mixture of even more tunic types, shapes, sizes and colours. Field brown, dark brown, khaki, white, navy blue and even civilian clothing were used simultaneously, within the very same unit. Same goes for Turkish army's kabalaks and bashliks. Some men could be dressed in Balkan Wars vintage uniforms, their colleague in German-imported tunics yet more men could simply wear their civilian clothing with bashlik or helmet added. No wonder the rest of Europe considered the Ottomans the "sick man of Europe"... The Anzacs learned the hard way that this was not really the case.

One of the soldiers is taken from a tin soldier set, the other two are conversions of BeBro's units for Civ III.
Cheers

BiteNibbleChomp wrote: Phönix D.I (Austria-Hungary)

Oh you're gonna love me, and your stormtroopers too

Here it is (imported from CivIV user-generated WWI fighter set by Snafusmith. It took ages, but it's here.

Halibutt wrote:

BiteNibbleChomp wrote: Phönix D.I (Austria-Hungary)

Oh you're gonna love me, and your stormtroopers too

May the gods of gaming smile upon you

The new Ottoman Inf is much better! Also, would the Phonix D.I icon be ok for the D.III as well?

- BNC

BiteNibbleChomp wrote:

Halibutt wrote:

BiteNibbleChomp wrote: Phönix D.I (Austria-Hungary)

Oh you're gonna love me, and your stormtroopers too

May the gods of gaming smile upon you

The new Ottoman Inf is much better! Also, would the Phonix D.I icon be ok for the D.III as well?

- BNC

Yup, D.I, D.II and D.III were almost identical, the main difference being the ailerons and engine.
Cheers

BiteNibbleChomp wrote: Berg D.I (Austria-Hungary)

...and here comes the first Austro-Hungarian home-produced fighter: the Aviatik D.I (sometimes called Berg D.I after its designer, but Aviatik seems a more proper name). Again, it's a conversion of a Civ4 model by Snafusmith.