German 15cm sIG and the various units using it

[DRG]

Originally Posted by BigDuke66

3. The "sIG33 PzII"(ID 979) was also called "Sturmpanzer II Bison".

OK, let me explain that only 15 letters, numbers and/or spaces are allowed and "Sturmpanzer II Bison" is 20 so that's why it's not named that way.

Originally Posted by BigDuke66

the unit 033 has a steel armor on the hull side of 4 were all others have 3

That's a typo that I thought I had fixed two years ago. It's marked as fixed in my notes so it looks like it didn't get saved.....$%it happens

Originally Posted by BigDuke66

BTW I guess lowering the Fire Control and Range Finder values to zero for the units used as artillery variants was done for a reason or?

Do you see any arty.....SP or regular, that uses RF and/or FC ???


All the rest is in my notes and I'll get around to looking at it in about 3 months

Don

[BigDuke66]

Originally Posted by DRG

OK, let me explain that only 15 letters, numbers and/or spaces are allowed and "Sturmpanzer II Bison" is 20 so that's why it's not named that way.

Maybe something for the additional unit info in the encyclopedia.

Originally Posted by DRG

Do you see any arty.....SP or regular, that uses RF and/or FC ???

No but does that mean they shouldn't use or they can't use it?
It's just that this is an assault gun that is simply "used" as artillery but looses it's ability to perform like the version used as assault gun when it comes to direct fire.



Some more thoughts on the 15cm:
The assault gun versions couldn't elevate the gun as far as the sp-artillery versions and I wonder if that could have shortened their range.
SturmIG 33 could only lift up to +25 degrees and the new 15cm on the Sturmpanzer IV lift up to +30 degrees, unfortunately I have no clue what angle was used to reach the max range.
At least the gunsight for the SturmIG 33 was graduated to 3900meters for Sprenggranate and the gunsight on the Sturmpanzer IV was graduated to 4300 for I.Gr.38.
While the range may have been shorter, at least the minimum range for indirect fire was I guess bigger without reaching a real high angel the targets must haven been shot with direct fire.