Update 1.57 – “Battle March”

New Vehicles

• ​USA
  • ​Ground Vehicles
    • Т26Е4 “Super Pershing” heavy tank
  • Aircraft
    • P-61A-1 “Black Widow” heavy fighter (Premium)
    • P-61C-1 “Black Widow” heavy fighter
• ​Germany
  • ​Ground Vehicles
    • Pz.Jg. I SPG
    • Pz.Sfl.IVa “Dicker Max” SPG
    • Nashorn SPG
    • Tiger II Ausf. B Sla16 heavy tank (Premium)
  • Aircraft
    • ​Do 335A-0 “Pfeil” heavy fighter
    • Do 335A-1 “Pfeil” heavy fighter
    • Do 335B-2 “Pfeil” heavy fighter (Premium)
    • Ta 152C fighter
    • Fw 189A-1 “Uhu” light bomber (Special Event Aircraft)
• USSR
  • ​Ground Vehicles
    • ​KV-1S heavy tank
    • Т-44-100 medium tank
    • 94-KM on the ZiS-12 Chassis SPAA
  • Aircraft
    • ​MBR-2 flying boat (Special Event Aircraft)
• Britain
  • Ground Forces
    • Falcon AAS
    • Chieftain Mk.3 medium tank
    • FV4004 Conway tank destroyer
  • Aircraft
    • Sunderland Mk.IIIa flying boat
    • Sea Venom FAW20 jet fighter
• Japan
  • Aircraft
    • Ki-83 heavy fighter

Vehicle graphical model updates

• Spitfire Mk.XVI – model has been updated.
• Swordfish – model has been updated.

New Locations and Missions

• New winter location “Volokolamsk” for combined battles, game modes: “Battle”, “Conquest”, “Domination”.
• New winter location “Frozen Pass” for combined battles, game modes:  “Battle”, “Conquest”, “Domination”.

Changes in Locations and Missions

• A village area on the central part of the location “Kursk” and on the river bank has been added.

Damage Model

• Damage inflicted by HE-F ammunition (including APHE ammo and rockets for ground vehicles) is now calculated more accurately according to explosive type and weight.

Changes in Flight Models

• Click here for more details.

Ground vehicles performance changes

• M6A1: maximum power value for Wright G-200 engine has been corrected: from 960 HP to 800 HP. According to: TM 9-721 “Heavy Tanks M6 and M6A1”. Catalogue of Standard Ordnance Items, Second Edition, 1944. Volume I. Office of the Chief of Ordnance Technical Division.
• VK4501 (P): Maximum speed value has been corrected:  from 33 km/h tо 35 km/h.  Turret rotation speed has been changed from 7,5 degrees per second to 8 degrees per second. According to: ”Panzer Tracts – Panzerkampfwagen VI P (Sd.Kfz.181)”; ”Der Panzerkampfwagen Tiger und seine Abarten

Armament Changes

• Matilda: depression angle values have been corrected: -20/20 according to Tank Infantry Mark II and IIA, 1940 Edition
• M19: depression angle values have been corrected: -5/+85 according to FM 44-62, 1947. Twin 40-mm Gun Motor Carriage M19
• T-34-100: depression angle values have been corrected: -3/+18 according to «Отечественные Бронированные Машины. XX век. Том 2, 1941-1945»
• HE filler mass value has been corrected for the following 100mm ammo: BR-412 (65 gr), BR-412B (65 gr), BR-412D (61 gr.). According to: «Таблицы Стрельбы 100-мм зенитной пушки КС-19 по Наземным Целям»

Interface

• Choice of vehicles in a battle has been updated and improved.
• Display ranges of the battle zones on the map and minimap have been increased.

Sounds

• New sounds for Ho-301 air cannon.
• New sounds for the engine of the M18 “Hellcat”.
• Environmental sounds in ground battles has been improved and expanded.
• New sounds for hits and ricochets depending on the type of shells involved in ground battles.
• PS4: The sound in voice chat has been improved.

Miscellaneous

• Dynamic light sources for effects of explosions, shell hits, launching of rockets and catching fire have been added.
• Possibility of using aerobatic smoke of different colours for wings and tail (three coloured aerobatic smoke for those that have Thunder League Dog Tag)
  Can be turned on in: Menu > Game Options > Aerobatic Smoke Type > Tricolor.

Research and Economy

• Changed position in research for the following German armoured vehicles and self-propelled guns:
  • Pz 35 (t), Pz 38 (t) Ausf. A and F moved to the top of the research tree for armoured SPG’s ahead of the Stug Ausf. A without BR changes.
  • SPG Jagdpanzer 38 (t) moved to the 3rd rank in the research tree for armoured German SPG’s before the Jagdpanzer IV without BR changes.

Game mechanics

• British tank tree is available for research to all players.;
• In arcade battles with ground vehicles the physical multipliers for arcade have been adjusted as follows:
  • Reduction of 10% of the main drive ratio, which increases the maximum forward and reverse speed by 10%.
  • Engine power has been increased by 10% relative to 1.55.
  • Rate of the turn of the turret has been decreased by 30% and the speed of gun elevation has been changed.

New replacement mechanics of the last remaining crew member for ground vehicles has been added – currently for RB and SB mode only.