Forgotten Hope News Update: 20th August 2008

[Admiral Donutz]

Originally Posted by [CHN]Harrier

You can PM me without letting Lobo know.

Sure thing, I'll be right on it!

Spoiler:

When hell freezes over. Bwuhahahahah

[Kubador]

He leaked the carcano ingame!!! woot

And if you look closely you can see this map is Italians vs. Aussie (check the compass). Major leek there Admiral, thank you!

[Johannes]

Carcano and Australians!

Pure Awesome.

[Ts4EVER]

Donutz fails at secret keeping.

[LIGHTNING [NL]]

It's not a leak when it's dev approved.

[Admiral Donutz]

Originally Posted by Kubador

And if you look closely you can see this map is Italians vs. Aussie (check the compass). Major leek there Admiral, thank you!

Hehe, thank Lightning, he gave me the greenlight. I actually could have posted one other cool screenshot I had but I myself decided against it (I'll post it later if the right newsupdate comes along).

Oh it ain't major if you read the newsupdate of this map caefully:
Forgotten Hope

Giarabub is an oasis in Libya, near the Egyptian border and about 200 kilometres from the coast. It was the southernmost Italian outpost in Cyrenaica and it lay dangerously close to the Egyptian oasis of Siwa. When Operation Compass swept along the coast, defeating the Italians in every engagement, the Oasis of Giarabub held out and became a shelter for all Italian soldiers in nearby positions.

In December Giarabub was surrounded by British forces and besieged. About 1500 Italians were held up inside the town and while all other Italian held towns in Cyrenaica surrendered to the British in the next months, the Giarabub garrison would not surrender.

With only the bare minimum of supplies from the occasional airdrop the Italians managed to keep going throughout January and February of 1941 and when the garrison received a letter from Rommel on March 17th, there was hope that they might still be rescued. With the Germans preparing their invasion of Cyrenaica they would only have to hold out for a few more weeks. However, the British and Australian forces surrounding the town had not been idle either. More and more troops arrived until on March 21st 1941, after a 45 minute artillery bombardment, they attacked Giarabub...

[Flippy Warbear]

/me wonders if he should post the tiger pics

[mydjinny]

Can anyone say Point du Hoc? Y'all got to admit, the devs have endulged our far-fetched fantasies every time... Grappling hook even! Heck, we may even see a Lafette what-ch-you-ma-callit...LOL

Most impressive - Forgotten Hope 2 will really be Forgotten Hope back from the dead and improved once we get to Normandy, that's for sure

[Ts4EVER]

Originally Posted by mydjinny

Can anyone say Point du Hoc? Y'all got to admit, the devs have endulged our far-fetched fantasies every time... Grappling hook even! Heck, we may even see a Lafette what-ch-you-ma-callit...LOL

Most impressive - Forgotten Hope 2 will really be Forgotten Hope back from the dead and improved once we get to Normandy, that's for sure

Mr Cheese wrote something about a planned Point du Hoc map on WaW forums.

[CBCRonin]

Originally Posted by Von Mudra

Ah, but for the germans, a "mine" referred also several types of explosive ordinance. The Panzerwefmine was a thrown heat grenade and the Haftholladung was a heat mag mine that had to be placed by hand, and the Tellermine is already ingame properly.

I fully understand that, it is the reason I made a distinction between "emplaced" mines and hand placed in my post .

Some others were the Riegel mine 43 (renowned for their "delicate" natures), the Panzer stab 43 (though it had a short deployment time), and the Topfmine series.
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Do you happen to know where I can find a picture of German WWII tilt rod mines, even reference books for purchase would be welcome?