Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update.

This week we have a render of some long requested playermodels. The 101st Airborne Division has finally dropped onto the battlefield!

Activated on 16th August 1942, the 101st had "no history, but it had a rendezvous with destiny." The division was shipped over the Atlantic in preparation for the invasion of France. The 101st were given the task of dropping onto the Cotentin Peninsula and securing vital objectives such as the causeways leading off Utah Beach and bridges and locks along the Douve River. The drops were scattered and it took several days before the division was organised and had completed its objectives.

The division dropped again during Operation Market Garden, where it secured several bridges between Nijmegen and Eindhoven. After 72 days combat, the division was pulled back to France for rest and relaxation, which was cut short by the German offensive through the Ardennes. Besieged at the crossroads town of Bastogne, the 101st refused to surrender and despite critical shortages of ammunition and medical supplies they held on until the siege was broken by Patton's 3rd Army. No member of the 101st has ever agreed that the division needed to be rescued.

Their last action in Europe was the capture of the Berghof. The 101st received 2 Presidential Unit Citations and suffered 2090 killed and 6388 wounded. The playermodels were modelled by Pointblank, with heads by Zero and kits by Remdul. You'll be able to see them on the maps Purple Heart Lane and Ramelle Neuville

Our winner for this week's screenshot competition is pizzzaman12. You can view the winning submission here.

We are now accepting entries for the week of July 2nd. If you think you have the best FH2 screenshot, post them here.

That's all for this week, but be sure to come back next week for another update. Until then, feel free to visit our IRC channel, our public forums, and/or our Twitter and Facebook pages to discuss this update and other news.

Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update.

This week we would like to show off a couple of screenshots of a vehicle that can get you swiftly across the Tunisian desert in relative safety. It is of course the M3A1 Scout Car!

The M3 Scout Car was designed in 1937 by the White Motor Company, which gave it its alternative name: the White Scout Car. The improved A1 model was adopted to serve in reconnaissance and armoured units, and by 1944 over 20 thousand had been made. Although it was used in the Philippines and North Africa, its many drawbacks soon relegated it to rear line duty in the US Army. However, it remained widely used by the Soviet Union, who had been supplied with several thousand through lend-lease. The M3A1 Scout Car was modelled by Darren01, textured by Pointblank and exported by Kev4000.

Our winner for this week's screenshot competition is Mayhemic.MAD. You can view the winning submission here.

We are now accepting entries for the week of June 25th. If you think you have the best FH2 screenshot, post them here.

That's all for this week, but be sure to come back next week for another update. Until then, feel free to visit our IRC channel, our public forums, and/or our Twitter and Facebook pages to discuss this update and other news.

The Forgotten Hope 2 team is looking for talented modders with a passion for World War II and commitment to work hard. We need new fresh talent for our next campaign, the Russian front. The mod was released on December 14th 2007 and is currently the second most popular mod on the bf2 engine and won the 2010 Moddb players choice award.

What we can offer

• Collaboration with a team of about 20 dedicated people which allow you to share and gain knowledge
• The possibility to work closely together with the mapping team to produce customised content that will be part of new content
• Work in a team with a lot of freedom but a very strong focus on quality which gives you the opportunity to work on objects you want to do

What we are looking for

We are looking for additional artists that help us recreate the bombed out cities, peasant villages and industrial landscape of soviet Russia. At the current stage of development, the following skill sets are needed:

3D artists for property/static modelling

• Ability to do lowpoly modelling
• Experience in uv mapping
• Photoshop texturing skills (level depending on your assignment in the department)
• Experience in 3ds Max or/and Maya
• Having 3ds Max for exporting the scene to BF2

If you have other abilities that you think are beneficial to this mod, please do not hesitate to contact us either per e-mail (fh2mod@gmail.com), IRC (#fhmod @gamesurge) or a personal message to Nissi via the Forgotten Hope Forums!
Please visit us on IRC to have a chat with us if you like to understand your future role even better or just wish to make your first contacts with the team.

Hello and welcome back to another update of Forgotten Hope 2.

It has been a few weeks since our last update, and to make up for that, we have an update that is jam packed full of new content. To kick things off, we have a render of a new type of grenade for the common US infantry soldier; the Mk. III A1 Offensive Hand Grenade!

The Mk. III was a concussion grenade, and was designed to incapacitate targets through the pressure and impulses produced when the grenade exploded. The weapon contained 8oz. of TNT and would often throw large fragments of the fuze assembly and surrounding material up to ranges 200m, despite the fact that the Mk. III was not a fragmentation grenade. The large explosions produced by this grenade made it not only successful against enemy soldiers, but also as an effective tool for blasting and demolition. The Offensive Mk. III A1 Hand Grenade was made by Herc and Toddel.

Up next we have a render of the first ever machine gun that was fired from an aircraft; the Lewis Aircraft Gun!

The Lewis gun in its aerial configuration was used extensively on British and French aircraft during the First World War. Its popularity came from being light-weight, air-cooled, and the fact that it could be fitted with 97-round drum magazines. By World War II however, the Lewis Gun was largely replaced on aircraft by the Vickers Gun, which could achieve twice the firing rate of the Lewis. However, the weapon was still used on some British and US Army aircraft, and in FH2, the Lewis Gun will be present on the back of the Hawker Hardy. The Lewis Aircraft Gun was made by Herc and exported by Kev4000.

Our next render is of a new aircraft for the American pilots serving in the harsh deserts of North Africa; the Supermarine Spitfire Mk. Vb Trop!

Although the Spitfire had already proved successful in the RAF, the Spitfire was used to equip the 4th, 31st, and 52nd fighter groups of the USAAF in the summer of 1942. The Spitfire Mk. Vb Trop was created by Rad, textured by Toddel and Herc, and exported by ctz.

Our last render for this week is of another RAF aircraft. It is the Hawker Hurricane Mk. I

In 1939, several changes were made to the design of the existing Hurricane. These included a new powerplant, the Merlin III, a new metal propeller, new radios, and Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) equipment. Additionally, the aircraft was armed with eight, closely grouped .303" machine guns which provided an excellent field of fire. During combat, it was discovered that the Hurricane's fuel tanks were vulnerable to machine gun fire from enemy bombers, which could then ignite the aircraft mid flight. However, despite this the Hurricane would go on to be extremely successful during the Battle of Britain and would ultimately down more aircraft than the Spitfire. The Hawker Hurricane Mk. I was made by Lobo and textured by Lobo and Herc.

Our winner for this week's screenshot competition is Kubador. You can view the winning submission here.

We are now accepting entries for the week of May 20th. If you think you have the best FH2 screenshot, post them here.

That's all for this week, but be sure to come back next week for another update. Until then, feel free to visit our IRC channel channel, our public forums, and/or our Twitter and Facebook pages to discuss this update and other news.