stikkypixie Posted March 30, 2004 Share Posted March 30, 2004 I have a question about the CV-33, when i look at the tankette in the game it appears as if it has to machinge gun barrels, but the game (and other sources though i do not know how reliabel) says it only has one. Can anyone explain this odd thing? Thanks! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted March 30, 2004 Share Posted March 30, 2004 It's using a 3d model of a tankette that has 2 MGs rather than a unique one due to lack of space on the CD? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nidan1 Posted March 30, 2004 Share Posted March 30, 2004 Close one eye, and you will only see one MG. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted March 30, 2004 Author Share Posted March 30, 2004 Is that how you intend to deal with my übercats Nidan1? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xerxes Posted March 30, 2004 Share Posted March 30, 2004 I think BTS used the same model for the different variants of the CV series. Some of which did have two mgs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stikkypixie Posted March 30, 2004 Author Share Posted March 30, 2004 Ah yes thanks guys! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted March 31, 2004 Share Posted March 31, 2004 Actually, I checked and the CV-33 DOES just have one barrel in CMAK! It's the CV-35 that has two mgs, and there's the AT version and flamethrower version, each with its own dedicated polygon. BFC covered all bases. I guess you were either looking at an enemy vehicle incorrectly I.D.'d due to fog-of-war, or just thought the Cv-35 was a 33. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denim Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanonier Reichmann Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 Gawd, they look even more like a heap of ****e in real life than they do in the game! Regards Jim R. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 I thought it was a poorly made plastic model until I noticed the podium in front of it. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wisbech_lad Posted April 1, 2004 Share Posted April 1, 2004 My respect for the poor sods who had to fight in that has gone up a number of notches. A Fiat 500 is probably more survivable... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v42below Posted April 2, 2004 Share Posted April 2, 2004 Hey, stikky, when you charge my uber russians with those things try to make sa much noise as possible, it might drown out the laughter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rleete Posted April 2, 2004 Share Posted April 2, 2004 My god. The 40% scale tiger I'm building is bigger than that. Poor bastards that had to fight in that were braver than I would ever be! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzman Posted April 2, 2004 Share Posted April 2, 2004 Originally posted by Michael Emrys: I thought it was a poorly made plastic model until I noticed the podium in front of it. Michael I was thinking the same thing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted April 2, 2004 Share Posted April 2, 2004 What were the people who designed those things thinking!? I agree that it's hilarious that the real life thing looks more crappy than the simulated one!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted April 2, 2004 Share Posted April 2, 2004 Originally posted by GreenAsJade: What were the people who designed those things thinking!?Everybody was building something like this in the '20s and '30s. These were just a smidgen crappier than most others. They were probably okay for chasing the natives around in Libya and Somalia and almost good enough for Abyssinia. It's only when they came up against something with a real gun in it (like a Boys ATR, for instance ) that they came a cropper. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted April 2, 2004 Share Posted April 2, 2004 Not alot different from an MMG carrier, which served until the end of the war 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenAsJade Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 Actually, the idea that they were used for local policing kind of stuff makes a lot more sense... now I "get it". Being totally ignorant, all I can say is that from the pictures we see in CMAK, I would rather be sitting in a MMG carrier than an L/35. Does anyone have a good picture (like the above) for an MMG carrier? Also, do the MGs in the one above have any rotation capability? Looking at the image in CMAK, I had inferred that the mount rotated somewhat. Looking at the picture above, it looks solid, pointing forward only. That seems to make it good for scare purposes only: hard to see how you could actually aim and shoot something using the steering wheel! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 I assume (on no particular authority) that the gun mount is flexible in the same way the hull MG on a larger AFV is. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paco QNS Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 From Part 3 in "AFV Interiors" : Picture 9: This time our view is of the rear of the twin Breda MGs in their mount. The Breda MG magazine contained only around 24 rounds, but there were approximately 79 curved magazines stowed in the vehicle. As you may recall, the Breda MGs caught their spent casings in canvas bags fixes under the weapons. The sighting ocular with its surrounding eye cushion has been angled upward, but the rear of both receivers and their characteristic handles below them are clearly visible. Notice the hand wheel to the far right that elevated and depressed the weapon mount. The mount was traversed by simply swinging the weapons from side to side. The very early L.3s with the 6.5mm FIAT 14 MG had around 3800 rounds of ammo stowed inside 50 magazines, the magazines housed in similar bins on both sponsons over the tracks. Italian CV 33/35 (L.3) Tankette, Part 2 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 Hey Paco send me an email please - have a CTV SCW question for ya Wayne100@emirates.net.ae - oh please put CMAK in the subject 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wygal Posted April 3, 2004 Share Posted April 3, 2004 CV-33, the uber-tankette ^ ^ ^ Major SPOILER coming! ^ ^ ^ ^ "Forgotten Outpost" ^ ^ ^ ^ The CV-33's can litterly reign in this scenario, against crack troops. Focus on the 1 Vickers and the battlefield is yours. The CV-33's totally terrorized and locked down a veteran opponent in a PBEM. Good mobility and not open topped. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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