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Replacing the KV-5

Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 11:56 pm
by deckarudo
I was quite surprised to fight a Russian KV-5 in Grand Campaign. This tank was a "paper tank", only a project which never reach production and battle.

I would suggest an interesting change in my opinion: why don't you switch this tank for the real T-34/57? This tank hunter was a limited release (such as the KV-5 in PzC) and was armed with a very good gun (ZiS-4).

Two batches were produced: one in 1941 and fight in the last months of 1941, trying to stop the Wehrmacht at the gates of Moscow. And a second batch (with an improved version of his gun, the ZiS-4M) during 1943. As far as I can remember, it does match perfectly with PzC scenarios and usage of the KV-5s.

Re: Replacing the KV-5

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:22 am
by bebro
IIRC Kerensky has explained somewhere how the KV5 came in. But I can't remember the specifics...Anyway, putting the 34/57 in sounds nice IMO.

Though for the KV5 the argument could be made that the game has other ahistoric elements too. As long as we are not talking MP it's also easy to mod it out if one does like it to have around at all. Either make it a nonpurchase unit, or just change the intro date so that it's not there throughout the war :)

Re: Replacing the KV-5

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 3:46 pm
by boredatwork
IIRC during the original Beta the Devs had used the wrong set of plans when they were modelling the KV-2. That was later corrected but they still had the completed KV-5 Icon so I guess rather than let the hard work go to waste they might as well include it to denote a "special" unit in the game - like a general or something.