Tank and vehicle maps?

[Noog]

Seems like most people play rising storm? My favorite part of RO1 and it's mod, darkest hour, were driving vehicles and firing cannons. I can't seem to find a map with many vehicles. I think I played on one that had like 1 tank and 1 vehicle. Does this game have good armoured warfare or should I just go back to playing darkest hour 44-45?

[WhiteKnight77]

There are some maps that have vehicles and tanks in RO2. Gumrack is a tank map while Barashka, Fallen Fighter's Square, Commissar's House, Pavlov's House and Red October Factory are combined arms maps. There are some workshop maps such as Stalingrad Outskirts that is combined arms but is huge and few people ever play it from what I see. Arad is another CA map. There are a couple of others, but I can't remember them right off.

[Noog]

would you say ro2/rs is more of a infantry oriented game?

[WhiteKnight77]

it is more infantry oriented yes, but there are some good workshop maps that are combined arms that are really well made and fun to play. I know one is a winter map, but cannot remeber the name. It is on the TWB Custom Map server.

[Moos [29th ID]]

Modders are working on vehicles, not many but some.

[SCUMM]

As WhiteKnight mentioned those are most of the official ones, here are a few custom ones:
Ogeldow (most played custom Combined arms map, has tanks and half tracks)
Yakovlevo (HUGE, rarely played)
Starlingrad Outskirts (Biggest map in the game, never played)
Fallen Fighters 1943 (transports)
Kavkaz (Trasports, used to have tanks but the map maker sabotaged it to spite the community)
No Man's Hill (Tanks, huge and ugly WWI looking map, and in the best way)

Possibly more, but that is off the top of my head.
EDIT thought of more.

[WhiteKnight77]

OK, correction as to the custom map server, it is the TWI Custom Map server, not TWB (though they have some other maps that are "official").

I was on that server earlier and can say that these are combined arms maps and how playable:
Yakolevo - Laggy
Nomadskaya - Playable
Kirow - Playable
Sternommac - Playable, but just has armored personnel carriers
Rackowic - Playable

As I play them, I will list other tank or CA maps.

[LugNut]

There's some really nice custom CA and tank maps, including those listed, but it's rare to see more than one or two other people on them if anyone. The few stock CA maps do get played, but they're not popular. RO2 is essentially infantry only with maybe one or two tanks. It's not RO1.

[WhiteKnight77]

Irkutsk - PPG is another combined arms map, it is pretty playable, but there are a couple of places where it might slow down some. Strange that a map is named after a city in Eastern Russia, where no fighting took place.

[SCUMM]

Yeah the PPG maps are strange beasts that have rarely been promoted. Some are not bad, some are... a bit rough.

There was also the Blut & Eisen pack, but not sure if that survived the brewing restoration. I'm sure I've seen one of their maps with Pz IIIs however.
They were a mite bit rough.