SirReal Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 Since they obviously could in real life: /SirReal 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snarker Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 Huh. Would you look at that? The tank commander tied infantry to his turret to defeat bullets and hollow charge projectiles. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 what are you talking about? that's a prototype T-35. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirReal Posted August 28, 2003 Author Share Posted August 28, 2003 Originally posted by Other Means: what are you talking about? that's a prototype T-35. The image is from the Russian Battlefield site. I think it looks just like the other T60's in the pictures. Go and have a look. /SirReal 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fredrock1957 Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 Ok Squad.. Smile for your X-Mas Picture On a serious note I have seen that picture!! I think it is from the RGAKFD archives... But with little frontal armor maybe they were used as a ferry service...with captured Germans as fodder.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 yeah, that was a joke. you know, all the guns pointing everywhere, the chaos of the upper deck...no? suit yourself. no no. i'm fine. fiiiine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IntelWeenie Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 Once, we got 19 people on a Hummer (M1037; no troop seats). Anything above 5 MPh people would start to fall off. Plus, the driver couldn't see where he was going since there were people sitting on the hood (and hoping it wouldn't break) The T-60 photo looks a little staged, just like our Hummer ride was. I've never been a big fan of even the full-sized tanks being able to carry a full squad, since squad size varies so much. (I can't picture 12 fully equipped grunts actually hanging onto the back of a Sherman doing 15-20MPh cross-country.) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YankeeDog Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 I'm kind of the same mind as IntelWeenie about this. However, in fairness if the game is going to allow a T-34 to carry a full 10-man squad, it seems to me like it should allow a T-70 to carry a half squad. Similarly, I'd like the hear the justification behind whay a Panzer 38(t) is allowed to carry a half squad, but a T-70 is not - the available deck space seems pretty similar to me. I dunno, maybe there's something about the deck layout of the 38(t) that made it easier to ride or something. It seem to me like either both of them or neither of them should be able to carry a half-squad, tho. Cheers, YD 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 T-26 can carry a team (half-squad). And I don't think a T-60 is very different in size. Did it have anything for the troopers to hold onto, though? I have riden a T-55 before, and it had railing going around it's turret, which made it easy to stay onboard in combat gear (don't ask what would have happened if the turret was turned and the gun fired!). T-60 has a very low turret, maybe that makes it difficult to hold onto? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hensworth Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 What's even more annoying is that a Maxim can't be transported by any vehicle. Was that wheelie thing really that cumbersome ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 Huh? A Jeep can transport Maxim. And yes, the Russian Sokolov mount was cumbersome because of the big wheels. Unlike a tripod, you can't fold it up. Here's a Sokolov mount of model 1909: Finns copied their's from German Maxim tripod mount. For some reason CMBB doesn't model infantry AA MG's. Pictures from the Winter War site of Sami Korhonen. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 Dang and I thought the reason they couldn't carry a squad was because they were greased up at the factory 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atiff Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 Maybe it is not simply an issue of deck space and handholds, but engine power or a combination of factors. Could the engine cope if you add another 300+ kg to a T-60/70? What about the suspension? Same applies to other vehicles, I imagine. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 Originally posted by Hans: Dang and I thought the reason they couldn't carry a squad was because they were greased up at the factory Say what you say, but infantry squads aren't made in factories so they must have been greased elsewhere. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted August 28, 2003 Share Posted August 28, 2003 I believe it was Stalin's Directive No 176 on the 20th of September 1941 which assigned every second collective to forward one barrel of pig fat to the factories where the T's were made. The directive said, "wreckers and rightists have reportedly been slowing our socialist production lines. Use the provided fat to speed up those lightweights and enemies of the people..." One overzealous cadre later.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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