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Say hello to the Navy's newest vessel, "The Trawler Class," coming to WWII Online in our next game update!

If you missed our live stream event, not to worry we've got some screenshots and information about the trawlers in this article. One thing can be said for sure, the main anti-aircraft gun on the trawlers will absolutely eat aircraft alive as we demonstrated today. Vehicle production of this nature is made possible by your subscriptions!

Let's take a look at the new trawlers!


The Trawler class will be available for the Royal Navy, French Navy, and Kriegsmarine. They will be placed in deepwater ports and their rank will match that of the freighter class. There's a new sheriff in town as it comes to the most lethal Anti-Aircraft capable ship in the fleet!





Armament between nations are almost identical, except for its quad cannon differing a bit. The Flakvierling requires more consistent reloads but has a higher rate of fire and can alternate between a primary and secondary fire... whereas the Pom-Pom for the Allies has a primary trigger shooting all four cannons simultaneously and can lay down rounds for a longer duration of time. Both of these weapons are extraordinarily deadly to aircraft and through our testing, we had a lot of fun, even with seasoned pilots on our team getting shot down with an experienced AA gunner.

Allied Trawlers

• 76mm Main Gun (1)
  
• Quad QF 2-pdr Pom-Pom A cannon Mk VII (1)
  
• Twin 20mm Oerlikon AA cannons (2)
  

German Trawler

• 76mm Main Gun (1)
  
• 20mm Flakvierling 38 (1) - This is a quad barrel cannon
  
• Twin 20mm Oerlikon AA cannons (2)
  

All trawlers are about 7,500 Tons and have a speed of 12 knots. Maneuverability is acceptable but this is now the heaviest ship in the fleet, so consider your turns carefully in advance.



This unit will be available to our premium players only.

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The Cornered Rats Team.

ROADMAP DELIVERY! Introducing the new BF-109 G2/R1 "Jabo" (includes a 250KG bomb). This aircraft will be available in Tier 2.







The USAAF gauge updates is an essential point to releasing these aircraft for regular campaign play. We're getting closer to releasing these as part of the regular campaign, we're now waiting to get them a variant of the A-20 (Boston variant with the proper textures). Once this is done (which we are working on) we'll consider this the minimum viable readiness.







Meanwhile did you try out our new flight model?
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The Cornered Rats volunteers

For many years now the Urban Buildings have had their damaged states locked. CRS 2.0 inherited this setting and we begin to ask why? While there were some obvious fixes needed, they seemed relatively lightweight and with the delay on those new buildings for release, we didn't see a good reason to hold this back further. Special thanks to Mkw for her quick fixes on Urban Building 01, and to OLDZEKE leading the charge on damage thresholds/testing.

Please enjoy the following which will be on our next game release, version 1.36.7.0.



Click here to see a GIF animation

The below screenshot shows Antwerp Central Army base (center of the picture) standing vs bombed. You can clearly see how this will cut down infantry travel times to objectives as well as removing kill funnels that are currently in place (lack of bombed-out buildings/damage states).

Infantry engagements on rubble were one of the most memorable experiences many of us from the early 2000's had, this marks it coming back.

Click here to see a GIF animation in a large city

Here's the kind of possibilities that exist inside of these new urban buildings in terms of deploying forces and changing the way the game is played in these environments.

British Expeditionary Forces setup an ambush point waiting for Panzers to roll by.



A Pak36 (37mm Anti-Tank Gun) sneaks behind his Army Base vehicle spawn waiting for Allied tanks to roll by in a freshly blown-out hole in this urban building.



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The Cornered Rats Team

Community Management Team welcomes its newest member TEX64 to assist KMS as Axis High Command Liaison XO. For nearly a month of extensive training, testing and the typical "CRS On-boarding" that boarder lines the Geneva Convention (jk - lol) he is ready to begin his service within the team. Please welcome TEX64!



Tex64 Bio -

"Roughly six weeks after the launch of WW2OL, I had received my new PC and grabbed this game on a whim as I went thru the check-out line and that started an odyssey of multiple nights with literally no sleep then working full days as my head was spinning about WW2OL and the seemingly endless terrain. I was ever so lucky to bump into some hard-core gamers LUGAN and GVONPAUL who invited me into their Day One Squad of GrossDeutschland. Unknown to me was the massive player-run High Command organization where I met more individuals like SCHILLING and FATTYJ and in a blink of an eye I was in the Axis High Command as a KG Leader then onwards and upwards to Armee Group Commander. Along the way, co-founding the 1st Lithuanian Brigade “Iron Wolves” (1LB) with HONDO, JORVIK, FOGABAN, KOZ26, and BORNTOGO. And then the years trickled by as my young children grew-up to become high school then college students and now fully-functional adults. Thankfully my marriage survived the sometimes out of proportion pursuit of this game. So now, 19+ years later I am hoping to serve this great community in a new role as liaison between the veteran and free-to-play player base and of course, the heartbeat of WW2OL, the player-run squads.

These are interesting times that we live and game in and there are significant challenges before us in our particular arena of WW2OL. As always, we hold the future of WW2OL in our hands. As I have spent most of my working career finding and building upon common ground to achieve mutual success, I hope I can effect some change for the betterment of the entire community. I look forward to making new friends and some mutually respected enemies, too!"



After several months of waiting all of the awards have been printed and shipped to their respective recipients. Each top player received these huge one of a kind anniversary event desk mats, and by the looks of it, they may need a larger desk to accommodate them! Berraco and Kempi were kind enough to send us pictures of their award as seen below.





19 years for an online game is quite an accomplishment, and our success is credited to you. Your subscriptions and continuing support is what keeps the lights on. Thank you for 19 AMAZING years!

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The Cornered Software Team

Today we're pleased to show you the progress of the upcoming Tier 0 Light SPAA's (Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft) vehicles that will soon enter WWII Online. This update will include detailed screenshots of the three SPAA's for the German, British and French forces, along with a video walkthrough by CHIMM. These vehicles will be featured in our next patch release. Join our subscriber base and help us continue to make efforts like these possible.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl1YMqY2kyg




We're very excited about these in-game, mainly because this makes SPAA's part of the WWIIOL campaign the whole time! These Tier 0 SPAA's will eventually get phased out as the war progresses and are replaced by the larger SPAA's we currently have in-game.

They can be multicrewed, and you DO NOT need to be stationary in order to fire. This makes multicrewing opportunities really interesting as you can, "Shoot, move and communicate," while dodging enemy aircraft strafing you. It'll also be very interesting to see how players use this against anti-personnel (we can see a couple of drive by's happening in-game).

Let's take a closer look at each vehicle.

Here's the British "Bedford" showing you the gunner perspective, the commander is sitting in front of him and is responsible for deploying the gun and using binoculars. Then of course there's the driver.



Here's the French Laffly SPAA. A very similar setup but is using the CMLE weapon sight, whereas the British Bedford is iron sights-like.



The German Opel Blitz of course was outfitted with its newer Flak38.






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