New Unit; T55 Coldwar russian tank

[Leonel]

So is Smoking Mirror going to do the T72? I'm waiting eagerly everyday to use the T72 in my games!

 

[Kingpin]

I have a feeling that Smoking Mirror has put off the T-72 in favour of his early industrial units. I'm sure he'll come back to it sometime...

 

[Rocoteh]

This excellent unit is a "must" for every modern scenario.

57 000 have been produced. 47 nations have used it.
T-55 have been in action during most of the wars the
last 40 years.

Iraq have 2 600 MBT:s and probably a majority of these
are T-55.
Syrias MBT:s 4 700, 2 000 of these are T-55.
Irans MBT:s 1 565 500 of these are T-55.

 

[Smoking mirror]

Yep, thats why I made it, the most numerous "red" tank of the cold war period.

 

[Colonel Kraken]

This is an absolutely wonderful tank, and I've used it in my own personal mod for quite some time now.

Since it is such a wonderful piece of work, is there a way you could give us some pedia files on this tank, SM?

PLEASE??

 

[horsematrix]

awesome unit I love useing it in my scenarios

 

[WonderStuFF]

This unit looks superb! Congrats !!
Any chance of the British Challenger MkII 8)

WS~

 

[Colonel Kraken]

Per the excellent suggestion by Smoking Mirror, I have checked out his old preview thread and found a perfect picture for the pedia icons.

So here it is:

Here's the file:

Pedia Pics

 

[Vdog]

That looks nice, but he did make pedia icons for a few of his units in a thread somewhere back there, and the T55 was one of them.

 

[Colonel Kraken]

Well, I never knew about 'em. They should be with the zip for the unit, shouldn't they?

Oh well. It was easy to do.

 

[WonderStuFF]

Yeah i never saw them either so i'll use this one.
Thanks Colonel.

WS~

 

[stormbind]

Originally posted by papajohns
is the t72 still being worked on? im really looking forward for a worthy adversary for the m1 abrams model in civ3..

T72 is ancient and no match for an Abrams M1 :-/

T90 is the current front line tanks in Russia but the armour is much lighter than the armour found on Abrams and Challenger tanks - which would be roughly equal on paper.

Challenger II would be nice to see

 

[Vdog]

There is a challenger made but utahjazz...