Red Orchestra: Carpathian Crosses
Carpathian Crosses is a first person tactical shooter expansion pack for Red Orchestra: Ostfront which adds the Romanian army to the Eastern Front. Romania was the biggest German ally and supported the German army on the attacks on Odessa and Sevastopol. Parts of the Romanian army secured the north side of Stalingrad. Later in the war the Romanians switched sides and were involved in ousting German forces from their capital, Bucharest.
Features
- Romanian voice commands: The voice commands were recorded by native Romanian speakers and allow you to use all the commands known from Red Orchestra and more.
- Mortars: The mod implements mortars in a way that allows a certain class to deploy light mortars anywhere on the map where it would be possible to set one up. Aiming will be done by adjusting angle, direction and vents on the mortar. A light mortar crew will carry a certain amount of shells, but can be resupplied by its spotter.
- New player models: To represent the Romanian forces new player models are created. An addition to the Soviet forces will be the Naval Soldiers (Morskiye Pekhoti).
- New weapons: Several new weapons have been announced to be included in the mod. So far the Czech-made ZB-30 and the Steyr Hahn 1912 Pistol were announced along with the Orita SMG. Furthermore a new anti-tank weapon, the RPG 40 grenade, will be included.
- 4 new vehicles and variants: The mod will feature new tanks on both sides. Currently known to be in are several BT-7 variants and the Czech-made R-2 and French R-35 infantry tank for the Romanians. Beside that, the T-26 tank and the BT-5 will be featured for the soviet side.
Theme
The mod tries to represent the years from 1941 onwards, starting with the battles to drive the Red Army out of the Romanian territory (Bessarabia Campaign), followed by the push towards Odessa, the battles on the Crimea and the battles in the Caucasus Mountains near Nalchik.
Planned small arms
The ZB-30 was made in the Brno smallarms factory and is considered to be a prototype for The Famous British army Bren.
It had a rate of fire of 550 rounds per minute. It carried 20 rounds in a top-mounted magazine and was usually deployed on a bipod. It could, however, also be fired from the hip by its operator. The ZB-30 LMG had a fire selection (auto/single).
Planned vehicles
Several improvements of the RO damage models are planned to improve tank combat.
Maps (planned)
- Chisinau (Combined arms with focus on tanks)
- Faleshty (Combined arms)
- Dofinovka (Seaborne infantry)
- Nalchik (Infantry)