Commanders!
The summer’s technically not over yet but the weather says different and with it behind us, it’s time to take a look at some of our upcoming autumn content. For a future German-themed event, we’ve prepared new camouflages and decals for you. Let’s take a look at them together.
The first of our winter camouflages is called German (134 Panzerbataillon). As its name suggests, this unusual (atypical) German camouflage was seen on a Leopard 1A1A2 belonging to the 134th Tank Battalion of the 13th Panzergrenadier Brigade during the Central Guardian exercise in the morning of January 21, 1985, in Ohmes near Kirtorf.
Central Guardian was a part of the wider REFORGER 85 exercise and the German goal of it was to train in poor weather conditions alongside the U.S. Army reinforcing NATO’s eastern flank. Indeed, it was a cold, snowy day in West Germany and the crew decided to paint their otherwise white-painted tank with irregular green lines to break its silhouette.
The second camouflage is considerably more modern. It’s called German (Gebirgsjägerbrigade 23) and was seen on a Bandvagn 206 carrier belonging to the German 23rd Mountain Infantry Brigade during the Grand North exercise in Norway in the February and March of 2024.
The exercise was a part of the Quadriga 24 Bundeswehr exercise, the goal of which was once again training relocation and combat in poor weather with some 12000 German soldiers taking part in it.
In addition to these camouflages, there will be three decals available, all three belonging to Bundeswehr tanks.
The Panzerbataillon 123 decal displays the knight helmet of Seyfried Schweppermann, a legendary German knight from the 14th century. It was seen during an exercise in 1990 on a Leopard 2 tank belonging to the 123rd Tank Battalion of the 12th Tank Brigade during an exercise.
You may know this emblem from the Leopard 2A4 Budeswehr skin that’s already available and belongs to the same unit. It was adopted by the unit in 1974 and it symbolizes the shock and awe power of armored, mobile troops – be it tanks today or knights in the Middle Ages. We’ll talk more about Seyfried Schweppermann in the future.
The Panzerbataillon 121 decal also carries medieval symbolism with it. It displays a knight sword in a yellow triangle and was seen on a Leopard 2 tank belonging to the 121st Tank Battalion of the 12th Tank Brigade during the same exercise. The color yellow is common for all emblems of this tank brigade.
The sword is double-edged, which actually has a meaning – it’s meant to symbolize that the tanks and panzergrenadiers (mechanized infantry) are two blades of the same sword.
And, last but not least, the Teutonic Knight decal showing a charging knight with a lance in the form of a machinegun barrel was seen relatively recently on a Leopard 2A6 tank belonging to the 203rd Tank Battalion.
And that’s it for now, but we’ll return to the topic of knights in the near future. We hope that you’ll enjoy the new assets and, as always:
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