Snapcase's Pictures

[joseph1944]

I'm looking at a book call The Encyclopedia of the World's Warships. A technical directory of major fighting ships from 1900 to the present day. In this book there is a picture of a Russian Patrol Craft call OSA Class. It look's like the number 1 picture on this site. No forward gun.
The problem with these pictures is Firaxis has not confirm one way or another.
I served in the US Navy (62-65) and worked for the Navy (65-95) and cannot identified some of these ships.
The number 4 picture. Some say a Cruiser and some say Aegis Cruiser. I'm now looking at a picture of an early Battleship (USS South Carolina, Michigan,Texas, and New York) and they have the two tall masts that are shown on the units. These ships could be 1911-1920 Battleships.
Picture number 5 Transport. The picture look like a what we called a Mike Boat or LCM-6 for you non Navy guys. We had two of them on my Ship (USS Navarro APA-215), which was Amphibious Attack Transport. Our Mike boats could carry a Tank or a 6X6 Truck. The bigger LCM-8 and above can carry two or more tanks.
If Firaxis decide to call picture one and four Cruiser so be it. However they sure do not look like a Cruiser that I have ever seen.
Don M. if you are reading this, the Machine Gun in the Hull on the the Sherman is on the Wrong side. All Sherman had their MG on the starboard side (right) and not the port side (left).

[joseph1944]

I almost forgot the mention this. The 3 min. movie said 60 units. I wanted more. To bad.

[joseph1944]

I tried to upload some pictures today but had no luck.
Mark G. if you read this, I tried the Img thing and the attach file thing with no luck. What am I doing wrong?

[Provost Harrison]

Musketeer!

Now I have been looking at the supposed musketeer unit on Snapcase's picture. However I have seen the special unit on some of the screenshots. I have a theory! I reckon this could be a Spanish special unit, Conquistador! Look closely and you will see what I mean

[KrazyHorse]

The picture that Snapcase says might be knight or crusader is definitely a knight. If you look at this picture , you'll see that the same unit is represented under chivalry. Also, there's an apparent aircraft carrier in one of the screenshots. Why doesn't it have its own picture?

[KrazyHorse]

The caravel, explorer, pikeman, cannon and musketeer units are also confirmed by such a comparison between units screenshots and advances screenshots.

[Grumbold]

Being an American made game it is likely that the "standard" modern units are going to be adopted from the US military. The Americans are getting the F15 as their special unit so the Sherman and Abrams appear to be the standard early and late tank images. I would prefer a mech inf unit that looked more like the NATO standard i.e. APC w/ MG rather than small calibre cannon just to make them easy to distinguish but c'est la vie.

[KrazyHorse]

I've said it before, I'll say it again: I think there are multiple special units per civ. The F-15 and the Abrams are almost certainly American SUs. The English couldn't be without both longbowmen and some sort of naval unit (Man O' War has been suggested).

[JosefGiven]

Mech Inf

Originally posted by Grumbold
I would prefer a mech inf unit that looked more like the NATO standard i.e. APC w/ MG rather than small calibre cannon just to make them easy to distinguish but c'est la vie.

Yeah, I'm not in the army, but I have a mate who was. Once, whilst I visited him when I was on holiday, he showed me around the REME depots, where they have all sorts of armoured cars based one single design (I think he called them 'Saxons', but I'm not sure). Anyway, my point is that I have always mentally pictured Mech Inf as very basic 'shoe-boxes on wheels' IE: No turret, just space for some infantry, a driver and possibly his navigator.

[Buck Birdseed]

KrazyHorse: Again, I did this months ago when it was only the second bunch of screenshots to come out, in a magazine as well. I'm doing a new version soon.