[WIP] The Italian Nation - DCG future project

[Ulrek]

nah i can wait ignore the earlier post i was just kidding and i like i said i am looking to see what this is all going to turn out like a new nation would be pretty cool i'd love to steal SVTs from the russians to shoot at the desert rats with :lol: as some one other than the germans whom i cant stand most of their best troops so meh...

and again like i said nice work the gun models look pretty cool

[Dilust]

Here is some screenshots with italian tanks and infantery:

From left to right: the M15/42 Medium Tank (just ingame), an Italian Bersagliere with Fez hat, an italian Alpino (mountain infantry), a M11/39 Medium Tank, another Bersagliere with the characteristic plumage, an L6-40 Light Tank, and another Alpino.


Lancia Lince armoured cars with Italian infantry men and Afrika Korps.

PS: sorry for the poor image quality.

[Jkl22d]

Nice

[Magicchocolate7]

whoa the armored car and the tank on the right look cool good work :booyah: but i have two questions, how much do you think you have done, and are the Italians going to get any heavy tanks? (i dont know if they even made any heavy tanks)

[Nanaki]

Italians never really had much in the tank department. Their heaviest tank was the Armato P40. It was a 26-ton tank comparable to the Sherman, produced late in the war in single-digit numbers (dont think any actually saw combat). Actually, the Sherman had heavier armor.

One of the most common tanks in the Italian army were tanks that utilized about 42mm of armor and a 47mm gun. Those were pretty much the heaviest 'common' tanks the Italians had.

[Magicchocolate7]

so the italian armor will be comparable to the japanese?

[Nanaki]

Pretty much.

[Ludovsky]

The only issues with italy is that even on the prototype tables(as far as I know) they never had any design close to the Tiger I(unlike the japanese).

However, they seem to have been

A:

-Heavy user of HEAT rounds and it seem in appreciable amounts too since it was their main form of AT.

And B:

-Actually "fans" of self-propelled guns vehicles, having many series of vehicles in all way at least equivalent if not almost as efficient as the german's own stugs with similar armor. Notable is the fact that rather than using them purely as assault gun, they often used their "Semovente"(said self-propelled tanks) as divisional artillery. Most of the semovente had 75mm guns and decent armor. Though some models had armor as light as 30mm, it seem quite a few ranked as much as 106mm frontal plating(even if vertical one) which japanese can't really boast until their most advanced prototype tanks... and one of their Semovente also sported a 105mm main gun(though I am not sure of it's anti-armor characteristics).

Also notable on the italian side is the infamous Canone da 90/53, a AA/AT gun superior to even the german 88mm, also happening to have been mouted on both a truck and lightly armored tracked self-propelled gun chassis: drawings
Plus, in prototypes they also produced the semovente da 149, a self-propelled 149mm artillery gun with great range: Drawings - Info

[Magicchocolate7]

So their tanks will probably not have a lot of armor, but will be more than capable in the gun department? so as long as i shoot first, i should have the advantage?

[Ludovsky]

Actually, I would regard their actual AT as similar to most japanese guns(possibly inferior with AP rounds, in this case HEAT becoming more of an "equalizer"), but it is in the artillery/self-propelled artillery department that I would imagine them actually shining most, due to their amount of units that would probably be capable of fitting artillery roles.