Katiushkas
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Katyusha fire as ambient sound maybe. I don't think that the maps will be big enough to feature on map artillery.
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it would be nice to have some sound for katyusha rockets flying over if only as an ambient sound and hitting an area outside of the map location. Good ambient sounds can help with the feeling of immersion.
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The original mod spoke of certain maps featuring Katyushkas as an alternative to regular artillery and would be called in by an officer on a radio as usual, but this idea was never implemented. It would essentially be magically falling bombs like the current artillery, except that they'd sound like rockets and they'd streak in with trails of smoke behind them and scare the piss out of the enemy ten-fold. 
I'd like to see this in HOS.
I'd like to see this in HOS.
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i just question their availablity in the situations players would be encountering in the game. would they be cool though? you betcha.
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Bring it. There can never be a shortage of flying exploding your *** ordinance in any game.
Also, you might want to give the Germans their variant of the Katyusha--the Newbelwelfer (or however the hell you spell it); dam German compound words.
Also, you might want to give the Germans their variant of the Katyusha--the Newbelwelfer (or however the hell you spell it); dam German compound words.
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Sure, Katyushkas would be very dramatic addon. But not a realistic one. They were used for "strategic" bombardments, since the accuracy is so poor. They could not be used effectively on close presence of own troops. And since own troops are allways very close of the fire mission target area in game, it
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The target for a rocket bombardment was usually several football fields in size, that's over the regular mapsize in RO
Though, as scripted matinee sequences they'd be awesome.
Though, as scripted matinee sequences they'd be awesome.
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Katyusha's were a big part of the Stalingrad. There were stationed on the banks of the Volga, fired, and moved in towards the bluffs for protection.
I don't think anybody suggested them for platoon/company level fire missions - which really should be mortar based as it is. But I could imagine occasional wide area bombardments. Maybe the CO would be informed when it would be, so would know when to hunker down.
I don't think anybody suggested them for platoon/company level fire missions - which really should be mortar based as it is. But I could imagine occasional wide area bombardments. Maybe the CO would be informed when it would be, so would know when to hunker down.
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I wonder if single batteries of Katyushkas were every assigned to battalions or not. With mortars you could even have teams directly under the command of a company (Carpathian Crosses essentially tried to implement this), while howitzers and the like could be utilized through the battalion, but I don't know how the Red Army handled that sort of thing.
The typical image of the Katyushka though, is sitting on the eastern side of the Volga firing across the river, and that limits its low-level tactical use I think
The typical image of the Katyushka though, is sitting on the eastern side of the Volga firing across the river, and that limits its low-level tactical use I think
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