Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update.

Today we have a render of another Soviet weapon that you'll be able to find out on the battlefield, the DT.

The DT is essentially the same weapon as the DP light machine gun designed by Vasily Degtyaryov, only with some modifications to make it more suitable for tank use. The magazines were smaller in diameter and fatter, holding more ammunition. Despite the intention for use as a vehicle mounted weapon, it was often used as an infantry weapon due to its larger capacity magazine and slightly lighter weight. Our DT was made by Seth Soldier, and you will be able to find it mounted to vehicles and laying about in pickup kits.

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Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update.

Today we are showing off a map that some of you might have already seen in one of our Dev Streams. It is of course Pegasus. This map was made by the talented Otolikos, and features several custom buildings such as the Château de Bénouville made by Toddel and the Horsa Bridge made by Gurdy and Nissi.

Of course, the most important statics for any map covering Operation Deadstick are the Bénouville Bridge (renamed Pegasus Bridge after the war) and the Café Gondree, both of ours made by Nissi. You'll be able to defend these by day, or capture them by night in the smaller 16 player layer.

The first objectives of D-Day were two bridges spanning the Caen canal and Orne river, codenamed "Pegasus" and "Horsa". The plan called for a glider-borne surprise attack in order to overwhelm the ill-equipped defenders as fast as possible. After this was accomplished, the paratroopers were to dig in and wait for reinforcements coming in from Sword Beach.

While this part of the plan worked well, the Germans reacted quickly and as the sun rose on the morning of the 6th of June 1944, tanks and armoured infantry of the 21st Panzerdivision closed in on the beleaguered bridgehead.

You can find the minimap and a preliminary vehicle listing here.

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Gloria Victis - a map pack for Forgotten Hope 0.7

Created by members of [PFT] clan, the Gloria Victis map pack portraits invasion of Poland in September 1939 by 3rd Reich and their ally - Soviet Union, which started the 2nd world war.

Mappack includes whole new equipment for Poles and Germans, like mobile cannons, hundreds of new static models and new weapons like Molotov Coctail or VIS wz.35.

It contains maps showing the most symbolic battles of the "September Campaign", such as:

Westerplatte - a symbol of Polish defence against overwhelming German forces

Grodno - reflecting the will to fight of the Polish nation against Bolshevism.

Along with the release of the map pack, a Polish event will be held on the Pixel-Fighter server (85.214.226.169 :14567) on the 1st of September at 1800 UTC.

See you on the battlefield!

http://www.moddb.com/mods/gloria-victis/downloads
http://www.pixel-fighter.com

Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update.

Today we are showing off two renders of a couple of German last-ditch weapons designed when the Red Army was knocking on the door of Berlin.

The Volkssturm (People's Storm) had been formed in October 1944 from half a million men too old or young to have been conscripted into the regular Heer. However, there were not enough regular weapons left to arm even the Army, let alone the Volkssturm. A series of cheap and primitive rifles were designed to arm the militia, and the most advanced of these was the Volkssturmgewehr made by Gustloff.

It used the same kurz ammunition and 30 round magazines as the StG 44, and was made from as few parts as possible. There were only 39 metal parts and 21 of these could be stamped. It operated by gas-delayed blowback, and similarly to many pistols the whole slide assembly surrounding the barrel recoils with each shot. Between January and May 1945, approximately 10000 were made and issued.

Perhaps the simplest of the primitive weapons was the Steyr VG5, also known as the Volkssturmkarabiner K98. It was assembled from a mixture of rejected receivers and shot out rifle barrels. Like all the Volkssturmgewehrs, it had fixed sights set for 100m. Unlike the other rifles, this one had no magazine and had to be reloaded after each shot. Both our Volkssturm rifles were made by Seth Soldier.

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