Panzer Battles 2 - The Official Teaser Thread

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Hi All,
 
Jumping on the Friday bandwagon before someone asks me where the latest update/leak/revelation is...!
 
Testing reports continue to come in and there is active tweaking of scenarios underway. Nothing new, but we are close to content complete.
 
I continue to play around with the new 'feature' and generally it is going to give us some interesting situations. A lot more to be done and more will be shared on this at the right time.
 
It's also at this point of development that there is a level of 'peer' review. Currently inconsistencies in naming, spelling and other attributes are being checked in the Order of Battle. New eyes pick up lots of things that have been overlooked by those that have looked at it for the whole project. As there are a range of languages involved (German, French, English - Commonwealth and US) it’s easy to get variations. We're trying to clean that up as much as possible.
 
Documentation is also well underway. The player notes are complete, though they need to be updated every time we add a scenario. For reference these are already over 100 pages(!!!). The Getting Started scenario is complete but now needs to be written up and for poor Mike Avanzini, the 'completed' work on the Visual OB has been 'uncompleted' with the latest graphics changes. 
 
The good news there is that we think we're done with the (final) graphics upgrades. We have been challenged on some images and managed to find superlative replacements and we think we can finally put them to bed.
 
 
Here are this week’s examples!
 
 
After the commentary on the British last week, we went back and had a critical look. Many of the base images used were either representative of Italy or even the desert. With that in mind we went out and found some better base images and have cobbled together some more representative North West European campaign troops. Old on the left, new on the right;











We also tidied up the engineers. The top gentleman is one of the 'sub-beach' units that were landed on the first day. They had distinctive helmets;











There have also been some updates for the Germans. There were a range of MG squads in the base German company as well as intrinsic in the beach defenses. We have created a much more atmospheric image for these teams. Old is on the left;











Finally we continue to update the Luftwaffe troops. Here are some further examples. The engineer with cap is used in both the Fallschirmjager & Luft Feld formations;











That's it for this week!

David