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Just an idea I'd like to put out there, I would really love to see the battle of Stalingrad & The Eastern Front as a proper CDLC in Arma 3. I believe this would be a great opportunity for the Heavy Ordinance Team as they have already made the successful Spearhead CDLC which they did extremely well. Also not to mention I believe they have access to the Iron Front content which has tons of Eastern Front assets, I think if they had to introduce the battle of Stalingrad to Arma 3 and do something brand new with that content, it would be an absolute hit! I know the map of Stalingrad is huge, but maybe the first focus could be on the initial assault on Stalingrad with the middle portion of the map including Mamyev Hill, Pavlovs house, train station, USSR HQ & Port Landings, grain silo, etc. Then as a second map added later (similar to how Mortain was added) it could be the factories district with Red October, Tractor Factory, Apartments, etc. Some cool new mechanics could be: -A focus on brutal close quarters fighting -New artillery mechanics involving the Russian Katusha -New sniper mechanics where NPCS react to the reality of snipers -Russian charges -Building Ruins fighting - new aspect of using ruins for cover Even if this could be done similarly to the Spearhead CDLC in the way the missions were setup with choices, that would be awesome! Anyways it's an idea I had, hopefully it could come to pass but I believe it's a great opportunity :)

I would like to say great job to the devs for the CDLC, it is quite well done and feels great to play in Normandy with a fresh new perspective! I would like to make a few suggestions for future updates that I believe will improve this CDLC greatly: 1) One thing that is completely breaking immersion in Spearhead at the moment is the voice overs for the units. I noticed the US just use the same generic voice overs as the vanilla Arma 3 US faction. It would be way more authentic to have new ww2 related voice overs for the units especially the German units. An example of these voice overs were done really well back in the original Iron Front Liberation 1944 so perhaps you can grab from that game or another example was the WW2 Voiceovers mod for IAF3 which added unique sounds appropriate for the US and Germans. It even added battle shouting and raised tones during combat. I believe this had a massive impact to the mods immersion and so would work perfectly for this CDLC 🙂 2) As mentioned above and in other posts it would be much needed to have more vehicles, weapons and aircrafts. Here are a few I'd like to mention: For the U.S: -Willys Jeeps (A couple variants with MGs and without, medic variant etc.) -GMC trucks (Also with a few variants-similar to the variants of M3 halftracks currently in game) -M8 Greyhound -P51 Mustang (A couple variants similar to the thunderbolt variants currently in game) -M3A1 Stuart Tank (Will be appropriate as the Wermacht already has the Panzer III) For the Wermacht: -Kubelwagen (About 3 variants- mg, medic, normal) -Schwimmwagen (This could be a new addition to the arma series altogether - it will work nicely for the rivers on the Normandy map) -SdKfz 222 reconnaissance vehicle -SdKfz 234/2 “Puma” -Panzer V Panther (From the photos I've seen this tank was quite common in operation Cobra, I think it's very important to include this tank. -P38 Walther (This was more common than the Luger at the time) 3) Lastly I would like to compliment about the Normandy map, I think it is extremely well done and detailed so great job! The only thing is with it being so detailed, it kills fps quite a bit. Perhaps if there is a way, it would be good to optimize the map a bit more to increase performance. Thanks again for an awesome new CDLC! 🙂