Bit less, I would say.
The situation about it was a bit complicated. They was far from deciding and build an engine, and the nearest thing to a prototype was a 1:1 wooden mock-up.
Is it photoshopped? Not just colorized? I’ve seen that black & white photo before. I think it isn’t questionable that P43 (not bis) had at least a full-scale mock-up.
Unfortunately imo chances for P.43 are close to 0 and for 44M are quite low as well, maybe if Italian GF was introduced 1 or 2 years earlier, we would already have both. Although I would like to be wrong.
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+1.
This is just colored.
The first photo is colorized by u/p43bispo on Reddit, the second one is a photorealistic depiction from this post on the Subreddit. Not sure how it was created, but it looks pretty convincing to me.
To me, a full scale wooden mockup will always be a step up from the blueprint level, but I can completely understand if not everyone has that view.
The 44M TAS would be the best heavy tank for the Hungarian line, but the IS-2 is a great addition as well even though it being mostly a copy and paste.
Italy and Hungary needs both of these heavies in my opinion.
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This should rather be an event or batlepass tank if there were any other tech tree alternatives… The thing about the Is-2 is that it just not that iconic compared to a T-34-85 for example, which heavily participated in the revolution too and so on. I really hope the Tas can be the techtree heavy instead. (Or for that matter the P.43)
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I’m Hungarian, and no we not say Isz-2 we just say IS-2 as it written, or I S-2, it’s really really rare if somebody saying isz-2 because it’s a longer word and you can’t say it as quick as saying just IS-2, but yeah overall I’d love to see an IS-2 in the game but the Isz-2 is not a misinformation but nobody use to say it.
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Ok, thanks) I’ve just met that designation in most of Hungarian sources, one Hungarian article also referred to it as JS-2 (like “Joseph Stalin”).
Pretty hypocritical. Most of the visegrad tree is copy-paste and has heavy tanks, the very same vehicle this suggestion has and you’re against?
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I’ve been looking for this. Italy could also get the P.43, but can’t have that because muh paper. This would be a chance to give a TT heavy to the Italian tree. They should’ve added the german tanks as TT ones because those were standard by the end of the war and make the soviet captured ones premium but whatever.
Ik HNG IS-2 not captured, I’m talking like t-34. Tigris should’ve been TT imo or panther but they got the TAS that’s an original design but also fulfills a similar role.
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For some reason everyone loves to mention the Visegrad tech tree here, I myself don’t want the IS-2 in the tech tree as well, but we needed a tank for the heavy tank line and it needed to be Hungarian, I wish they finished the 44M Tas, but hey, they got bombed just as badly by the allies as the Italians, my reasoning for this is that I don’t like western and eastern equipment joining up with each other. For example here in the Visegrad ground tech tree, we did our best to seperate soviet based equipment from western by putting them in different ranks.
PS. The Visegrad Group tech tree is not mostly copy and paste