bug?

Machean · 07-31-2012, 02:07 AM,

I noticed in the German OOB that if you purchase, sturmpioneers you get a squad called sturmpioneer (flam) and they have a weaponslot that has a 32cm flame rocket that can fire 2050m!!!
Thats gotta be a bug or I missed out on history that these squads where carrying 32cm rockets that they could fire 2 kilometers!
Anyone else got this bug?

Vesku · 07-31-2012, 04:30 AM,

It's fired straight from a wooden crate, they mainly used it from halftracks which had racks for several rockets to be fired in a salvo.

So no, not a bug.

Weasel · 07-31-2012, 04:56 AM,

Yes, but can they move around the map with it? I don't even think a squad would hump around a huge rocket like that.

Walrus · 07-31-2012, 11:48 AM,

I have been killed by those things for years.
I wouldn't say it's a bug, but I think it's unrealistic for leg units to be able to move around at full speed and have that flame rocket as an infantry weapon.
Should be attached to HT only IMO.

Vesku · 08-01-2012, 02:20 AM,

What are you saying! Supermen can't carry couple of 79kg rockets while sprinting? Plus flamer with tanks and the normal assortment of weaponry.

I was wondering that before and estimated that the group of sturmpionier was carrying about 50kg per man which is not far from some allied special forces (45kg).

I tried to find if it was really used as an infantry weapon but didn't find anything.

Machean · 08-04-2012, 03:12 AM,

Yeah very unrealistic, it should be fixed and removed as an infantry weapon! I dont think it was a standard armament in the squad to carry it around, definately on a halftrack though, but they exist in the oob and thats fine.