Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update.

Today we are showing off a grenade that will be replacing the RGD-33 in our later war maps, the RG-42.

The Soviet Union entered the war with the RGD-33 as their offensive grenade, but it quickly became clear that its complicated design meant that sufficient numbers were difficult to produce. The short lived RG-41 designed by N. P. Belyakov was the first attempt at a replacement, and was considered to be reasonably successful. Within a year the RG-42 designed by S. G. Korshunov had replaced it, with the main innovation being the switch to the UZRG fuse that was shared with the F1 defensive grenade. The RG-42 was easy to make and would be produced up until it was replaced in the 50s. Ours was made by Ashton and RedRogueXIII.

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

Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update.

Today we are showing off a new rifle grenade for the K98k, and also using this opportunity to fill another blank in our set of renders.

The Gewehr-Granatpatrone 40 was a rifle grenade developed to give the Fallschirmjäger a light and portable anti-tank weapon. The design request went out in 1940, but the first grenades did not reach the field until the 1941 invasion of Crete. The GGP40 was found to be short ranged, inaccurate and not very powerful, and while plans to improve it were drawn up by 1942 the army had a much better alternative. The GGP40 was fired with a wooden bullet and launched from a spigot attached to the end of the rifle. This meant it was incompatible with the army's later Schiessbecher 30mm cup based system. Our GGP40 was made by Seth Soldier.

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

Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update.

We have a rather unusual and little known variant of the MG34 to show off today, the MG34/41.

The MG34 was a very capable general purpose machinegun and had proved itself in the opening years of the war, however there was always room for improvements. The MG34/41 was one of these experiments, with a number of changes made to the internal components with more use of stampings, as well as most visibly obvious a barrel that was shortened by about 9.5 cm. Perhaps the most significant change though was to the recoil and buffer springs, which resulted in a rate of fire close to 1200 rpm. However, despite its compact size it was only barely lighter than the MG34.

The MG34/41 was produced only in very limited numbers. Around 1700 were made in 1941 and primarily shipped to several Jäger units on the Eastern Front for testing. Several would also turn up in the hands of Fallschirmjägers in Tunisia. The weapon was not overly successful since the high rate of fire caused significant stress on the internal components. Ours was modified by Seth Soldier from our original MG34 that was made by Master Minder, Subbo, Razer and McGibs.

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

Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update.

We are announcing a new feature today, brought to us by the hard work of Ekiso.

Leaning is coming to Forgotten Hope 2. This feature has been added in a fully functional state, with fully working first and third person animations. To lean you simply need to be standing or crouching, and then while holding your sprint button (default: left shift) press either your left or right strafe keys (default: a and d) to lean in that direction. Leaning can be cancelled manually by repeating this button combination, or automatically when you sprint, go prone or reload. It was not possible to go with the more typical q and e due to limitations in the available networked inputs.

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

Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update.

Today we are showing off something that will keep you on your toes while walking through the forests of Karelia, the Finnish M/43 "Pen box" mine.

The Laatikkomiina M/43 is very similar to the earlier German Schützenmine 42 and especially the Soviet PMD-6. It consists of a wooden box with a hinged lid that contains a small explosive charge. When the lid is pressed down it dislodges a pin in the fuse and allows the firing pin to hit the detonator. The name penaali, meaning pen box, was quickly applied to these types of mines since they closely resembled the boxes commonly used for storing pens in Finland.

Not as sophisticated or as deadly as the jumping mines that had become common, this type of mine had the advantage of being a lot cheaper to make and was a lot harder to detect. Ours was made by Ashton and RedRogueVIII.

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

Hello and welcome back to another Forgotten Hope 2 update.

Today we are showing off some more of the improvised weapons that will be showing up in the hands of our Norwegian faction.

The petrol bomb is nothing more than fragile container filled with flammable liquid and tied to an ignition source. The classic form is a glass bottle filled with petrol and tied off with a petrol soaked rag. They first appeared during the Spanish Civil War, and would go on to see widespread use in WW2 and beyond. They were first and foremost an anti-tank weapon, relying on the smoke and burning fuel to choke out the engine or crew. The smaller pre war tanks that dominated the early war years were especially vulnerable to this, especially if their engine air intakes could be directly hit.

Dynamite was invented by Alfred Nobel in 1866 as the culmination of his work to find a way of stabilising extremely shock sensitive nitroglycerine into an explosive that could be used for mining. By soaking it into diatomaceous earth, it was rendered considerably safer and became widespread in civilian uses.

The Norwegian Army distributed communiques during the 1940 invasion that explained how to create both dynamite charges and petrol bombs, with the latter even being refereed to as Hitler Cocktails. Both the improvised petrol bomb and dynamite bundle were made by Ashton.

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