![]() ![]() The Assault Team usually consists of three soldiers armed with rapid firing M1 carbines and M1 Thompson submachine guns. The squad is divided into teams of complementary capabilities that derive from the various weapons carried by each team member. To fight this close quarter fight you will employ your WWII Parachute Infantry Rifle squad. Fighting in villages and towns, therefore, requires greater tactical skill as all the areas on the urban battlefield can quickly become "kill zones" with little room for movement or escape. Narrow alleys and destroyed buildings can offer little room for maneuver. The difference between the two is distance. The tactics in urban combat are similar to ![]() You will fight beyond Hill 30 and move out of the hedgerows and into the urban areas. This is the German Sturmgeschutz IV, commonly called the Stug.Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood involves a lot of urban, close in-town and village fighting. Gearbox's Stephen Bahl with a German Machinegun MG-42. John Antal checks the range finder of a German Army Panzerfaust in the museum's briefing room. Weapon artist, Stephan Bahl, wearing a US Army Paratrooper helmet, attempts to steady a German Army Panzerschrek anti-tank weapon.Ĭol. Weapons were operated and photographed from every angle (bottom), then reproduced digitally for use in the game (top). John Antal (left) and Gearbox staff in the accurate surveying of the weapons of D-Day. The US Army Ordnance Museum at the Aberdeen proving Grounds in Maryland maintains an unparalleled collection of WW2 armaments, large and small.Ĭurator, Dr. Come-du-Mont manor that was set up on D+3, after the town was liberated. This rare color photograph shows a 101st ABD medic station outside the St. The manor as represented in Brothers in Arms. Come-du-Mont is reported to have been the mayor's residence before the German occupation. The same area as the previous picture, as modified in the game to represent the place in 1944 during the fighting on D+2. The town's church steeple can be seen in the distance. Gearbox survey team photograph of the alley just Southwest of the town's central crossroad. Come-du-Mont, Then, Now and In Game Īllied aerial reconnaissance photograph of St.
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