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[Michael Dorosh]

From the Panzer Command forums, in a conversation regarding the Marder's main armament - a tangent about Russian equipment:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=1948163

It's to note that you did catch that it was the F22 L51.5 used in these and not the ZiS-3 L42. There is an error in Wikipedia which says the ZiS-3 is L51.5. As such many other games continue this error.

Um. Huh?

Doesn't that presuppose that "many other games" do their research on Wikipedia?

 

[Lurker]

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It's to note that you did catch that it was the F22 L51.5 used in these and not the ZiS-3 L42. There is an error in Wikipedia which says the ZiS-3 is L51.5. As such many other games continue this error.

Wouldn't be the first time Wikipedia got something wrong. Just don't use their site as gospel.

 

[Michael Dorosh]

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Wouldn't be the first time Wikipedia got something wrong. Just don't use their site as gospel.

Yeah, but why are game researchers using it at all?

 

[Redwolf]

All of these games are older than that article on Wikipedia.

I won't assume the original claim is true in the first place. There were three Marder variants and I'm sure they mounted whatever gun they came across.

 

[mOBIUS]

Probably the reason Wikipedia is wrong is that they copied the info from the Russian Battlefield site which is also wrong.