Hans Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Okay, without back tracking on the link can you tell what this thing was? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted January 6, 2005 Author Share Posted January 6, 2005 http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/ Lets try that again plus the link just in case 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted January 6, 2005 Author Share Posted January 6, 2005 One more time..... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David I Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Hans, Is that a picture of my kid's robot transformer tank? I'm going to check his toy box. DavidI ------- "....and thanks for all the fish." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 That's a Char B2 that someone's PhotoShopped. Michael (Now I'll go look to see how wrong I am.) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Bolt Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Here it is: ARL tank [ January 06, 2005, 08:09 AM: Message edited by: General Colt ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sivodsi Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 Yes, the Char B2 Aggressive Rocket Symmetrie Emmitter mk 2. After the early experimental rocket propulsion system was criticized for lacking maneuverability, this one had a revolutionary variable direction thruster added (commonly mistaken as a canon). However, in typical French fashion it blew off spectaculary, tragically destroying most of the factory that produced it. As an interesting aside to this story, one of the orphaned children was none other than Michel Wibault, who reinvented the idea to power aircraft, and was hired by Hooker who was instrumental in developing the engine for Hawker Aircraft, and what would eventually become the Harrier. Sadly Wibault died before he could witness his engine in a flying airplane. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted January 6, 2005 Author Share Posted January 6, 2005 Originally posted by David I: Hans, Is that a picture of my kid's robot transformer tank? I'm going to check his toy box. DavidI ------- "....and thanks for all the fish." Something much odder, a French design! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted January 6, 2005 Author Share Posted January 6, 2005 I just wanted to add that if you ever get bored with 1944 west front or the east front, try 1940, a weird world to immerse oneself in.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted January 6, 2005 Share Posted January 6, 2005 The one that really freaked me out on that page was the mockup 'model' of that FCM F1! Sheesh, and I thought it was only the Germans who thought up these insane weapon systems! Makes even the Maus look rather small by comparison. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 I noticed that too. Hypertrophiphilia is not unique to computer gamers and body builders. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mace Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 Originally posted by Hans: A french tank after an overdose of viagra. Mace 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 Eww, Mace. That is so... disturbing. Now I can't play my turns before having a shower. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted January 7, 2005 Author Share Posted January 7, 2005 What would the bog percentage be for this baby? At least you'd get a platoon (-) of crew after they jumped ship. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elmar Bijlsma Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 What amazes me is that if I read it right it's only a 75mm gun. Looks bigger then that, I would have though 105mm atleast. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 Originally posted by Hans: What would the bog percentage be for this baby?100% But look on the bright side: you'd also have automatic hull-down. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 Originally posted by Elmar Bijlsma: What amazes me is that if I read it right it's only a 75mm gun. Looks bigger then that, I would have though 105mm atleast. I didn't read anything, but comparing the two guns to the figure standing next to the vehicle, it looks to me that the big one could easily be 100mm and the smaller one 75mm. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 Ah! Just went back and read the caption. Here's what it says: This tank, designed to lead assaults on the Siegfried Line in 1941, was to be armed with a high-velocity 90mm gun (mv 710 m/s, penetration 100mm at 1000 m) in the rear turret and a 75mm SA 35 in the front turret (the mock up above shows a 47mm gun mock up instead) with a 25mm AT gun on each side of the hull! A rolling fortress indeed...providing you can get it to roll. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted January 7, 2005 Author Share Posted January 7, 2005 I knows it nuts to say so but it would be interesting to be in a CM game set in June 1940 and acting as the commander of a German tank platoon equipped with Pz IIs and running into that thing! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 Didn't I just playtest that one for you? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hans Posted January 7, 2005 Author Share Posted January 7, 2005 Hmmmmmmm we could reverse sides, the Germans could have R-35s vs a 'French' Jagtiger?? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 Originally posted by Hans: I knows it nuts to say so but it would be interesting to be in a CM game set in June 1940 and acting as the commander of a German tank platoon equipped with Pz IIs and running into that thing! Hell, you only need a .22 to kill Pz. IIs. To kill Pz. Is, you only need a BB gun. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gibsonm Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 Well just get CMBB out and send some Pz. II’s up against a KV-2, same sort of “contest”. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 How about this Pak Portee ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throwdjohn Posted January 11, 2005 Share Posted January 11, 2005 nowhere near as cool as the tanks, sorry j2d. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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