Bud Backer Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 If a Chaffee has a large chance of bogging, I'm sure the potential German tanks do as well.I'm certain they are, yes. The Easy-8 suspension is really a huge plus, it rides much better over snow (that is to say, it doesn't get bogged/ immobilized as often) than the Chaffee, in my tests. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Jack Ripper Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 I'm certain they are, yes. The Easy-8 suspension is really a huge plus, it rides much better over snow (that is to say, it doesn't get bogged/ immobilized as often) than the Chaffee, in my tests. Here's hoping Ian loses a couple tanks to immobilizations.Happy New Year! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Bud_B,Full and speedy recovery for your wife! Glad the surgery went well and that she's back home where she can recuperate. Hospitals are pretty bad in this regard, with my "favorite" being waking you to take a sleeping pill!Yet another great AAR-by-comic. Love this sort of thing and shall pass it on to my nephew, who digs graphic novels and such. His retired from the Army SFC Dad is big time into Bolt Action WW II rules for 15 mm these days. General remarksThe Sturmtiger is delivering a warhead of almost exactly the same explosive content as a WW II US AN-M57 250 pound GP bomb, which has 123 pounds/55.9 kg of TNT. By contrast, the M102 HE shell fired by M114 155 mm howitzers had 15 pounds, 9 ounces of TNT (7.09 kg). Thus, the Sturmtiger put down the instantaneous HE weight of fire of two 155 mm howitzer battery volleys.Regarding airbursting rifle grenades, one variety of US frag rifle grenade has a time fuze, just like the familiar pineapple type does. If the fuze detonates over the target, then it won't be pretty underneath! The other variety is impact fuzed. See official War Department training film "Infantry Weapons and Their Effects" at 2:37 for details. How the game models this stuff I don't know.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr0ojGtsvCMRegards,John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud Backer Posted December 31, 2015 Author Share Posted December 31, 2015 Welcome back, John. Thanks for the well-wishes. Your estimation of the explosive capacity of the SturmTiger shell is not far off from mine, though I had no idea the 155mm shell had so little! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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General Jack Ripper Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 "Let the Germans fire at empty buildings," the best strategy! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud Backer Posted January 1, 2016 Author Share Posted January 1, 2016 "Let the Germans fire at empty buildings," the best strategy!hehe glad you like that! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud Backer Posted January 1, 2016 Author Share Posted January 1, 2016 (edited) Just a little wish for all you guys. Edited January 1, 2016 by Bud_B 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Same to you Bud and all the rest of the community. I have a good feeling it is going to be a good CM year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockinHarry Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Just a little wish for all you guys. Nice to see that star shells and flares are now modelled in CMFB. HeheHappy new year! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted January 1, 2016 Share Posted January 1, 2016 Bud_B,You're welcome! Good to be back. The reason the shells have so little explosive in them has everything to do with the acceleration loads of 10,000 G on them, something neither the rocket nor the bomb faced. This is one of the major reasons why rockets are so nasty as bombardment weapons. They have a much higher HE payload for a given bore diameter than does tube artillery of that same diameter. And unless they are SAP or AP, bombs have the weakest structural loads on them of all, which is fully reflected in their high explosive fill percentage. By extreme contrast, a heavy naval AP shell's HE load runs about 3% of total projectile weight. All the rest of that goes into not just keeping the shell together during firing, but primarily to providing a stout enough case and nose caps to survive smashing though armor to deliver that small amount of explosive into the vitals of the enemy warship. Regards,John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kieme(ITA) Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) Thanks Bud,it's a very fun and entertaining reading.all your images remind me of when I was a kid and during the summer time I read comic books from an old publisher (during the '90s), some examples: Edited January 4, 2016 by Kieme(ITA) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud Backer Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 Thanks Bud,it's a very fun and entertaining reading.all your images remind me of when I was a kid and during the summer time I read comic books from an old publisher (during the '90s) Thanks, Kieme! Glad you're enjoying it! Those pictures you posted look a lot like some of the Commando comics I have in collected volumes. I bought those collections this summer as I started doing Apache (link below) because I wanted to improve my style and presentation. Some examples below: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieme(ITA) Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 Nice Bud, could you tell me what's the period of publication of those comics? Which years mor or less? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud Backer Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 Nice Bud, could you tell me what's the period of publication of those comics? Which years mor or less?They were first published in July 1961, and are still published today. I think it's a comic a week, or thereabouts. Wikipedia has a nice page here. Lower down that page you can see the collections, which are volumes with selected comics all out together. There is some overlap so one has to buy carefully to avoid duplication. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pak40 Posted January 4, 2016 Share Posted January 4, 2016 And who in the U.S. can forget Sgt Rock comics? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingman47 Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Yes!!!! Sgt Rock. I spent a lot of quality time following the Sarge. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macisle Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 (edited) A couple more titles that bring back fond memories of childhood and beach-trip reading: I always wanted to order the giant battle sets of toy soldiers advertised in the back, but never did. I was young, but knew they were probably a rip. Did anybody here buy them? Edited January 5, 2016 by Macisle 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud Backer Posted January 5, 2016 Author Share Posted January 5, 2016 I always wanted to order the giant battle sets of toy soldiers advertised in the back, but never did. I was young, but knew they were probably a rip. Did anybody here buy them?Heh. When I was a kid I remember getting a massive collection of toy soldiers and some plastic vehicles to go with them. I don't know where my parents got them from, but I doubt it was from the comics. On the other hand I remember the ads, which were so...overstating the quality and capability of the goods! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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