WW2 Unit Graphics

[techumseh]

You changed the Japanese tanks!? Which ones? How? Why?

 

[CurtSibling]

It's a splendid set of units...!

@Patine !
Time to update Rising Sun, sir!

 

[Fairline]

You changed the Japanese tanks!? Which ones? How? Why?

Sorry, I can't tell you which pixel I changed. Think of it as one of those spot the difference games that retirees like to play

 

[Patine]

Sorry, I can't tell you which pixel I changed. Think of it as one of those spot the difference games that retirees like to play

Like Sarsstock's "which flag in this African collection is not for a real country." Does anyone remember that one?

 

[techumseh]

Sorry, I can't tell you which pixel I changed. Think of it as one of those spot the difference games that retirees like to play

In my day, sonny, we didn't have time for those kind of "games".

 

[Patine]

In my day, sonny, we didn't have time for those kind of "games".

No, if you weren't black-and-blue after a hard day of "play," it wasn't worth it, in those days. You might as well have sat in your room doing homework...

 

[CurtSibling]

Luxury!

 

[Tanelorn]

Nakajima A6M2-N Rufe seaplane version of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero Model 11

Thanks for the inspiration, G.

 

[Patine]

It's a splendid set of units...!

@Patine !
Time to update Rising Sun, sir!

I certainly have been stockpiling ideas about expanding it. Things like a possible 1937 (beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War) start, and definite ideas for quite a few more units and events. I had also had the idea of, instead spawned AI Atomic Bombers after a certain point in range of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a move command, having the Atomic Manhattan Project be worked as a "spaceship" mechanic (a la, El Laurens 2), but, if I recall correctly, the AI NEVER builds a spaceship unless the human player starts one first (at least to my knowledge).

 

[Tanelorn]

Some extra USN tubs, I did a while back. DE is destroyer escort, corvette or frigate in modern nomenclature. They are in batches of visually similar builds. The subs need some work.

Evarts class destroyer escorts 98 in commission 1943-47, 32 lend-leased to the RN s the Captain class

Buckley class destroyer escorts 148 in commission 1943-70 46 lend-leased to the RN as the Captain class
Canon class destroyer escorts 72 in commission 1943-60
Esdall class destroyer escorts 85 in commission 1943-73

Rudderow class destroyer escorts 22 in commission 1944-73
John C. Butler class class destroyer escorts 83 in commission 1944-74?

Farragut-class destroyers- 8 in commission1934–45
Mahan-class destroyers-18 in commission: 1936–46
Porter-class destroyers- 8 in commission1936–50

Gridley-class destroyers 4 in commission: 1937–46
Bagley-class destroyers 8 in commission: 1937–46
Benham-class destroyers 10 in commission: 1939–46

Sims-class destroyers 12 in commission: 1939–46

Benson-class destroyers 30 in commission: 1940–51
Gleaves-class destroyers 66 inc. Bristol subclass in commission: 1940–56

Allen M. Sumner class destroyers 56 in commission: 1943–75 (USN)
Gearing class destroyers 98 in commission: 1945–83 (USN)

Btw, you know what we are missing for operation Downfall. The American Jaddpanther:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T28_Super_Heavy_Tank

 

[Patine]

So, I've looked over my planned units.bmp (the expanded one) for a redux of Empire of the Rising, and I looked over all the new, and relatively recent WW2 units, and there's really only two that are not currently represented anymore that are on my planned units list - a Malay Infantry (the native levies, not the British Army garrison), and a New Guinean recruit/scout unit (I seem to recall one being made at one point, and his lack of footwear being called out, but for the life of me I can't find it). What's really incredible and awesome is that there only two otherwise not available and recent or relatively so.

 

[typhoon353]

Quick and dirty conversion from Gareth. Most of the plates and photos I've seen of the PIB/NGIB show them without footwear so that's how I've left them.

 

[Patine]

Quick and dirty conversion from Gareth. Most of the plates and photos I've seen of the PIB/NGIB show them without footwear so that's how I've left them.

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You are a great man, @typhoon353, if only a very seasonal storm into the SL, nowadays.

 

[Patine]

Say, would anyone be able to reskin a P-26 for the Filipino Air Corps as it stood from 1935-1941? I tried my hand at the roundel, whose shape is unusual by air force roundel standards, and I'm not sure it came out that well. And the plane itself still has the colours and decals of the Interwar U.S. Here's the results I had managed.

 

[Tanelorn]

Some WW1-interwar and WW2 Chauchats. Probably one ove the worst guns ever designed.

 

[Patine]

Some WW1-interwar and WW2 Chauchats. Probably one ove the worst guns ever designed.

Hey @Tanelorn, you're back! Would you be up to try the reskinning request I'd made above?

 

[Tanelorn]

@Patine Here you are:

Based on this one https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10214235

 

[Tanelorn]

December 41, there were four times as many P35s (48) in the Philippines. And it is a much better aircraft.

 

[Patine]

Thank-you greatly, @Tanelorn!

 

[Tanelorn]

Small tweak, Far East Air Force P-40C 24th pursuit group, 20th pursuit sq. Clark field, Luzon, Philippines. (Olive drab spinner, old style markings, no fin stripes)