BG42RTR 0.98 Featured Models
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 5:42 am
Battlegroup42 is pleased to confirm that the Battlegroup42 Road To Rome mod will be released this evening at 2000 (central European time). It will be about 25Mb in size and require the Battlegroup42 mod (0.98) and the Road To Rome expansion pack. It will put Battlegroup42 vehicles such as the Panzer III, Panther, Brummbaer, Panzer II, M16 GMC, Staghound AA and Bishop on the RTR maps. In addition it will put the RTR vehicles (M11-39, M3Grant, M3GMC, Mosquito and Bf110) on the existing desert and Pacific maps such as OperationCrusader, El Alamein, Rabaul and Gaudalcanal. Two original maps, El Alamein and Tobruk, have been converted so that the Axis forces are now Italian, with Italian skins, hand weapons and flags.
There will be two special features in this release: the PantherTurm and the Elefant. The telegram number list PantherTurm consisted of a Panther tank turret mounted on a pillbox and used in defensive positions. The Germans made extensive use of advanced, prefabricated fortifications - many mounting tank turrets - and the most deadly was the PantherTurm. It found particular, and infamous, use in the northern Italian defensive lines (e.g. the Hitler and Gothic lines) and is therefore included on the Santa Croce, Monte Cassino and Salerno maps. It was also used during the defence of Berlin, and so has been added to the Berlin map, just outside the German base.
The Panzerjaeger Tiger (P) Elefant tank destroyer is one of the first of our new generation of models and is destined for inclusion in our forthcoming 1.0 release. However, with the growing anticipation for 1.0 we decided to give a taste of it by including the Elefant in BG-RTR as an exclusive preview. The model includes real Tiger sounds, exhaust smoke effects, a gunsight and zoom. The Elefant was a specialist tank destroyer mounting a high performance 88mm cannon in a chassis built from unused Tiger (P) chassis (this Porsche Tiger was an unsuccessful prototype built in competition with the design that was eventually accepted as the Tiger). Players will have to find the Elefant in BG-RTR, but many will know that it first saw combat at Kursk (though the DICE Kursk map is too small for such a long range tank killer), and then later in Italy.
There will be two special features in this release: the PantherTurm and the Elefant. The telegram number list PantherTurm consisted of a Panther tank turret mounted on a pillbox and used in defensive positions. The Germans made extensive use of advanced, prefabricated fortifications - many mounting tank turrets - and the most deadly was the PantherTurm. It found particular, and infamous, use in the northern Italian defensive lines (e.g. the Hitler and Gothic lines) and is therefore included on the Santa Croce, Monte Cassino and Salerno maps. It was also used during the defence of Berlin, and so has been added to the Berlin map, just outside the German base.
The Panzerjaeger Tiger (P) Elefant tank destroyer is one of the first of our new generation of models and is destined for inclusion in our forthcoming 1.0 release. However, with the growing anticipation for 1.0 we decided to give a taste of it by including the Elefant in BG-RTR as an exclusive preview. The model includes real Tiger sounds, exhaust smoke effects, a gunsight and zoom. The Elefant was a specialist tank destroyer mounting a high performance 88mm cannon in a chassis built from unused Tiger (P) chassis (this Porsche Tiger was an unsuccessful prototype built in competition with the design that was eventually accepted as the Tiger). Players will have to find the Elefant in BG-RTR, but many will know that it first saw combat at Kursk (though the DICE Kursk map is too small for such a long range tank killer), and then later in Italy.