BT-42 was made off of captured Soviet BT-7 hull's with a domestic made turret slapped on top (So it could fit the British 114mm howitzer, if it wasn't already enough of a mashup) :P Also obligatory Panzer Vor!
I mostly agree with this list, but have a few subjective notes. 75/K44 AT gun is good on paper, but in reality it has just terrible angles of the vertical aiming. It was really frustrating, when you did not had a chance to hit a target on the small hill or elsewhere. Classic Pak40 will be much better choice for Finns, IMO. 122 H/10-30 is a good howitzer but INO, the most effective Finnish gun is 155 H/17. With experienced crew this gun become very accurate, and its even looks a little bit absurd, because ML-20 do not has same accuracy on the same range, despite the same caliber and much longer barrel. Swedish field gun 105 K/34 also is very good.
just to correct... elite sniper is a max vet sniper (similar to a tiger ace, this is why his hp is higher and his gun skills are all maxed out at 8 points) and marksmen is a vet 5 rifleman (which is why they have 30 more hp than 200hp riflemen and 8 rifle skill). Marksmen are similar to german veteran riflemen... not the most amazing infantry pick. It is better just grabbing 375hp units and letting them vet into true monsters (unless you routinely lose most of your infantry). All max vet elite infantry end up with 8 in all skills. This is true even if they start off slightly different (eg comparing blau inf and brandenburger, the skills they are better at originally end up 5+3 and the other skills end up 4+4).
Ahh, but blau infantry are the absolute best because their hp regen goes up to like 10 per sec at full vet while the other elite inf get a stamina regen boost instead (the difference is like +7.5 vs +1.5).
finnish 75 anti air with 3 - 5 layers of large sandbag make it a impossible thing to hit (also 1 layers of large sandbag around it to protect from arty shrapnel) also you can fit the 20mm anti aircraft in the bunker from engineer but i rather put DS 39 (by taking control and move the gun in it)
You know what would improve the game if you could swap tank crew arty and infantry between like save the veterans expanded and a weapons cache for small arms
"🤓☝erm actually simo hayha have 500+ confirmed skills some people thinks he have over 1000+ unconfirmed kills and he also knows how to use an smg if im correct he uses the ppsh (idk if the finnish army have a drum mag in their smgs if I am correct)" Also if I am correct the Bt-42 is made for hit and run tactics basically an ambush light tank/tank destroyer and the big gun/howitzer is for penetrating heavy armored tanks it does not have AP shells if I am correct, but the HE shells is enough to possibly kill the crew inside the tank, but its main use is for killing large tanks like the T-28, T-35, or/and the Kv1 or Kv 2 and it can be used as a Bunker Buster
Simo used the Soumi SMG not the PPSH, and also the main purpose of the BT-42 was bunker busting, it was HORRIBLE against tanks, despite the Finnish wanting it to be useful against armour as well. Because the HEAT shell they modified from the Germans didn't work with the gun properly, the fuse was VERY unreliable. At one point a BT-42 hit 18 shots against a T-34 in the defence of Vyborg none of it doing anything against it, mostly likely because of the fuses not working properly. Almost immediately after the battle the Finnish changed to Stug's and Pz4's.
BT-42 was made off of captured Soviet BT-7 hull's with a domestic made turret slapped on top (So it could fit the British 114mm howitzer, if it wasn't already enough of a mashup) :P
Also obligatory Panzer Vor!
Awesome info thanks buddy
Always fun to watch, keep up the good content! Cheers! :)
Thankyou kind Sir
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Ahh nice timing. I just watched the Soviet Video and im also planning to play the Finns next in my dynamic campaign for TH-cam :D.
Cheers dude
Vickers 6-ton and T-26E, my beloved
There cute little tanks haha
I mostly agree with this list, but have a few subjective notes.
75/K44 AT gun is good on paper, but in reality it has just terrible angles of the vertical aiming. It was really frustrating, when you did not had a chance to hit a target on the small hill or elsewhere. Classic Pak40 will be much better choice for Finns, IMO.
122 H/10-30 is a good howitzer but INO, the most effective Finnish gun is 155 H/17. With experienced crew this gun become very accurate, and its even looks a little bit absurd, because ML-20 do not has same accuracy on the same range, despite the same caliber and much longer barrel.
Swedish field gun 105 K/34 also is very good.
Fair points dude
Bt-42 is pure goat energy lmao I used 2 the entire time as anti infantry, anti-tank, anti everything. Also marksmen lots and lots of marksmen.
There amazing a true glass cannon
Marksmen = Finnish infantry. Fuck em rifles and sissi, just spam marksmen.
just to correct... elite sniper is a max vet sniper (similar to a tiger ace, this is why his hp is higher and his gun skills are all maxed out at 8 points) and marksmen is a vet 5 rifleman (which is why they have 30 more hp than 200hp riflemen and 8 rifle skill).
Marksmen are similar to german veteran riflemen... not the most amazing infantry pick. It is better just grabbing 375hp units and letting them vet into true monsters (unless you routinely lose most of your infantry).
All max vet elite infantry end up with 8 in all skills. This is true even if they start off slightly different (eg comparing blau inf and brandenburger, the skills they are better at originally end up 5+3 and the other skills end up 4+4).
Ahh, but blau infantry are the absolute best because their hp regen goes up to like 10 per sec at full vet while the other elite inf get a stamina regen boost instead (the difference is like +7.5 vs +1.5).
Good points indeed Sir
finnish 75 anti air with 3 - 5 layers of large sandbag make it a impossible thing to hit (also 1 layers of large sandbag around it to protect from arty shrapnel)
also you can fit the 20mm anti aircraft in the bunker from engineer but i rather put DS 39 (by taking control and move the gun in it)
Thats sounds diabolical I love it
You know what would improve the game if you could swap tank crew arty and infantry between like save the veterans expanded and a weapons cache for small arms
Agreed it would be great to get this quality of life upgrades
@@SirJellyBean a scavenge mode set the weapon types and your troops search the area
@@mav5204 thats sounds awesome too
"🤓☝erm actually simo hayha have 500+ confirmed skills some people thinks he have over 1000+ unconfirmed kills and he also knows how to use an smg if im correct he uses the ppsh (idk if the finnish army have a drum mag in their smgs if I am correct)"
Also if I am correct the Bt-42 is made for hit and run tactics basically an ambush light tank/tank destroyer and the big gun/howitzer is for penetrating heavy armored tanks it does not have AP shells if I am correct, but the HE shells is enough to possibly kill the crew inside the tank, but its main use is for killing large tanks like the T-28, T-35, or/and the Kv1 or Kv 2 and it can be used as a Bunker Buster
Simo used the Soumi SMG not the PPSH, and also the main purpose of the BT-42 was bunker busting, it was HORRIBLE against tanks, despite the Finnish wanting it to be useful against armour as well.
Because the HEAT shell they modified from the Germans didn't work with the gun properly, the fuse was VERY unreliable.
At one point a BT-42 hit 18 shots against a T-34 in the defence of Vyborg none of it doing anything against it, mostly likely because of the fuses not working properly. Almost immediately after the battle the Finnish changed to Stug's and Pz4's.
Simo was god tier amazing
BT42 heat shells though are awesome at armour killing
@@SirJellyBean Oh yeah ingame they're pretty damn good, no fuse shenanigans to deal with.
Can't go wrong with high calibre HEAT :D
@@reign_of_stuka8991 I love me some heat
How to increase research point like that
Cheat mod in the steam workshop
Simoooooo
The legend
@@SirJellyBean Imagine actually having 400 frags, irl... must be quite fucked up lol
@@DobromirManchev we must get his DNA and produce and army of super Simos haha