The T34 version of the Calliope carried 60 rockets arranged in a group of 36 permanent tubes on the top, and a pair of jettisonable groups of 12 tubes (24 tubes in total) on the bottom. Its name comes from the calliope, a musical instrument also known as a steam organ, which has similar parallel or clustered pipes. It was developed in 1943 small numbers were produced and were used by various US armor units in 1944–45.

The launcher was placed atop the M4 Sherman, with its prominent vertical side frames anchored to the turret's sides and fired a barrage of 4.5-inch (114 mm) M8 rockets from 60 launch tubes. If it wasn’t for some intricate interiors and an unexpectedly authentic driving model, the sim would offer little more realism than a Panzer Elite: Action or a WWII: Tank Commander.The Rocket Launcher T34 (Calliope) was a tank-mounted multiple rocket launcher used by the United States Army during World War II.

Improbable infantry behaviour, sparsely populated battlefields and poor audio further erode plausibility. Armour experts will scoff as their mighty Panzerkampfwagen VIs get taken out at long, long ranges by titanium-plated T-34s. Call us a luftwhiner, but the titular tanks seem to have been modeled with the Russian market in mind. It’s a shame the tools don’t also enable the tweaking of vehicle stats. If you want more than a weekend’s worth of fun, you’re expected to try the multiplayer mode or join the horny-handed proletariat, building extra missions with the bundled editor. Other bourgeois fripperies like training scenarios, a skirmish mode and single sortie selection are also absent. Twelve moribund missions (six Axis, six Allied) huddle together, uncorrupted by frivolous Western luxuries like inter-sortie strat maps and squad management screens. Set during Operation Bagration – the 1944 Soviet push that drove the Germans out of Belorussia and Eastern Poland – the campaign is shorter than Hitler’s moustache.

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