Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45

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Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 Loading Screen Release Date: 2006 Developer: Jackboot Games Publisher: Steam (online) Series: Red Orchestra Platforms: Microsoft Windows Genre: Tactical first-person shooter

Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45 is a popular and critically-acclaimed game mod for Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. A free DLC, Darkest Hour transforms the action from the Eastern Front to the European Theatre of Operations (ETO). Aside from adding new skins, textures, weapons and vehicles for the German Army, it includes three new Allied Armies - the American, British and Canadian - and new maps, set in France, Holland and Belgium, depicting the famous campaigns of the war, including Operation Overlord, Market Garden, the Hurtgen Forest and the Battle of the Bulge. Apart from new weapons, vehicles, factions and settings, the game introduces numerous new gameplay features to improve feel and realism, including:

1) New Weapon Effects: Players can hear supersonic ballistics, suffer dehabilitating suppression effects and "shell-shock" from explosive rounds and weapons.

2) New Animations: Players can mantle walls and drop in from the skies.

3) New Classes: Players can spawn as RTO (Radio Telephone Operators) and call in artillery strikes from the front lines. Also, players can operate deployable and portable mortars - the M2 Mortar for the Allied Factions and Kurzer 8 cm Granatwerfer 42 for the Germans.

The following firearms appear in the video game Red Orchestra 2: Ostfront 41-45:

Sidearms

Colt M1911A1

The Colt M1911A1 is the main sidearm for the US faction in-game. It is carried by Sergeants, Snipers, Support Gunners, Machine Gunners, Artillery Officers, Anti-tank soldiers Riflemen and Tank/Reconnaissance Vehicle Commanders and Crewmen. Some maps allow for all the classes to carry a back-up .45.

Colt M1911A1 - .45 ACP

Enfield No.2 Mk. I*

The Enfield No.2 Mk. I* appears in-game as the sidearm for British and Canadian troops, carried by Corporals, Snipers, Machine Gunners, Artillery Officers, Tank Hunters and Tank/Reconnaissance Vehicle Commanders and Crewmen. Some maps allow for all the classes to carry the revolver as a back-up weapon.

Enfield No.2 Mk.1* - .38 S&W

Submachine Guns

M1A1 Thompson

The M1A1 Thompson is the main submachine gun for the US faction in-game and a secondary for the British and Canadian factions. It is carried by Sergeants, British and Canadian Corporals, Lance Corporals and Tank/Reconnaissance Vehicle Commanders. It fires from a 20-round magazine and can switch between semi-automatic or full-automatic.

M1A1 Thompson - .45 ACP

M3 "Grease Gun"

The M3 "Grease Gun" appears in-game as a secondary submachine gun for the US faction. It often appears as an alternative to the M1A1 Thompson or the M1 Carbine. It can be carried by Sergeants, Anti-Tank soldiers, Combat Engineers, RTO's and Tank/Reconnaissance Vehicle Commanders.

M3 "Grease Gun" - .45 ACP. The later model M3A1 would eliminate the crank lever for cocking the bolt, and instead used a simple hole in the bolt for the shooter to use their finger.

Sten Mk II

The Sten Mk II is the main submachine gun for the British and Canadian factions. It can be switched between semi-automatic and full-automatic. It is carried by Corporals, Lance Corporals, Tank Hunters and Tank/Reconnaissance Vehicle Commanders.

Sten Mk II - 9x19mm