Hans Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMplayer Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 Are you sure that prototype actually saw service in North Africa? It doesn't look entirely practical. Too many parts to get fouled up by the sand. But then, what do I know...? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salkin Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 It looks like something I used to play with in my bathtub when I was 4 . //Salkin 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 I can see why it failed... the army, the navy and the airforce couldn't come to an agreement of who should get these, so in the end they all opposed it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 I believe it IS in the game, but as one of those invisible attacking airplanes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Other Means Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 can it go turret down/perriscope up though? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfish Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 It is, but not the one pictured here. This one is a Mark II variant (note torpedo tubes. These were taken out in the Mark IIIS, and replaced with a bomb bay large enough to hold a Grand Slam). I could be wrong, but I think the one in the game is the Mark IX, which swaps the wing mounted 20mm Hispanos with Quad 40mm Bofors mounted in underwing pods. I think the airframe was beefed up as well due to this upgrade. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelson 1812 Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 Think this model had 5 chiefs and one crew member, who fled on the order to dive!. It has not moved since, dispite the number of orders being issued. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzman Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 Originally posted by Kingfish: It is, but not the one pictured here. This one is a Mark II variant (note torpedo tubes. These were taken out in the Mark IIIS, and replaced with a bomb bay large enough to hold a Grand Slam). I could be wrong, but I think the one in the game is the Mark IX, which swaps the wing mounted 20mm Hispanos with Quad 40mm Bofors mounted in underwing pods. I think the airframe was beefed up as well due to this upgrade. Hmm... I think it also had a major horse power boost. The early models stuggled to get airborne and half of them never even made it off the ground. There was a problem with the water tight compartments and often when landing in water they would sink like a rock. Also it must have been hard to get that thing hull down. [ November 13, 2003, 12:14 PM: Message edited by: Panzerman ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 Originally posted by Panzerman: Also it must have been hard to get that thing hull down. I am compelled to present a dissenting opinion. The difficulty was not in getting it hull down. The difficulty was getting it to come back up. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karch Posted November 13, 2003 Share Posted November 13, 2003 As I've seen submariners joke, Any ship can submerge... but only submarines can come back up! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
japinard Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Hehe! That's very funny 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzman Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Originally posted by Michael Emrys: I am compelled to present a dissenting opinion. The difficulty was not in getting it hull down. The difficulty was getting it to come back up. Michael I was thinking that the nose would be a dead giveaway to any Axis tankers. But you might be right. I wonder if the wings would get in the way if you were on a slope. They would have to come up a slope strait to prevent loseing them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mike Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Originally posted by Kingfish: I could be wrong, but I think the one in the game is the Mark IX, which swaps the wing mounted 20mm Hispanos with Quad 40mm Bofors mounted in underwing pods. I think the airframe was beefed up as well due to this upgrade. Ijit - there's clearly no underwing pods on this! In fact this is the B-Hurrichurchill infantry cruiser anti-aircraft bomber tripod bren mortar carrier as designed by the Imperial Committee for preserving the best of Interwar British Design Standards. One model was built and sent to Nth Africa at the behest of Field Marshal Lord Mindboggle MP (ret). It was sent to Tobruk, but captured still in its packing crate when the Sth Africans decided it was better to surrender than try to understand teh manuals for assembling it, and spent the rest of the war as a harbour breakwater. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfish Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Originally posted by Mike: Ijit - there's clearly no underwing pods on this!Must...learn...to...read...the...entire...post... It is, but not the one pictured here. This one is a Mark II variant (note torpedo tubes. These were taken out in the Mark IIIS, and replaced with a bomb bay large enough to hold a Grand Slam). the one in the game is the Mark IX, which swaps the wing mounted 20mm Hispanos with Quad 40mm Bofors mounted in underwing pods In fact this is the B-Hurrichurchill infantry cruiser anti-aircraft bomber tripod bren mortar carrier as designed by the Imperial Committee for preserving the best of Interwar British Design Standards.!Wrong! The B-Hurrichurchill infantry cruiser anti-aircraft bomber tripod bren mortar carrier was equipped with a unique adjustable telescopic main gun barrel that allowed it to fire all rounds then produced by the UK from 7.62mm up to and including 14 inch. Clearly this is a Mark II which can only go as high as 183mm, and that is with the muzzle brake removed. One model was built and sent to Nth Africa at the behest of Field Marshal Lord Mindboggle MP (ret). It was sent to Tobruk, but captured still in its packing crate when the Sth Africans decided it was better to surrender than try to understand teh manuals for assembling it, and spent the rest of the war as a harbour breakwater.Wrong again! (what is this, grog-lite night?) One model was sent to North Africa, but another 4 were built under license by the Bolivian goverment prior to WW2. These were used to guard against possible Italian amphibious assaults. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Private Bluebottle Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 I wonder, on a slightly more serious note, will we see this? Or this? Or even this? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Köhler Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Originally posted by Private Bluebottle: I wonder, on a slightly more serious note, will we see this?What do you mean by that? You mean the germans didnt fear that monster? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Originally posted by Michael Emrys: I am compelled to present a dissenting opinion.I've noticed that about you ever since Cabron unmasked you for the caustic, rat bastard that you really are 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanachai Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Originally posted by Salkin: It looks like something I used to play with in my bathtub when I was 4 . //Salkin They didn't have rubber ducks in Sweden? I thought you buggers were famous neutralists. What sort of toy would that be for a 4 year old? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thermopylae Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Wasn't the entire Swedish defense force re-equipped by the Germans during world war II? Clearly the bathtub toy he used was jsut a throwoff when the upgraded to leopards. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanachai Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Originally posted by Berlichtingen: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Michael Emrys: I am compelled to present a dissenting opinion.I've noticed that about you ever since Cabron unmasked you for the caustic, rat bastard that you really are </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Originally posted by Berlichtingen: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Michael Emrys: I am compelled to present a dissenting opinion.I've noticed that about you ever since Cabron unmasked you for the caustic, rat bastard that you really are </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salkin Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Originally posted by Seanachai: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Salkin: It looks like something I used to play with in my bathtub when I was 4 . //Salkin They didn't have rubber ducks in Sweden? I thought you buggers were famous neutralists. What sort of toy would that be for a 4 year old? </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreasyPig Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 My mother-in-law drives the first one. The BFC9000, its body is made in Mexico (child labor), the interior is made in Canada (baby seals) and the engine/drive-train is made in the firey depts of hell. GreasyPig Quitely waiting the next CM (unless Im drunk.......at work). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanachai Posted November 14, 2003 Share Posted November 14, 2003 Originally posted by Salkin: And I have to agree with Seanachai on one thing (I hate agreeing with Seanachai...) : Mr Emrys has adopted a bit of a mean streak since he became a rider of the apocalypso . He used to be such a harmless (some would even call him helpfull) grog/know-it-all who settled for ridiculing us less grogish people.... //Salkin :cool: Just keep agreeing with me, Salkin. It's the only means of becoming more intelligent without actually having to think more clearly. Yes, the whole Cabron66 incident really set Emrys off, didn't it? He went into it still all meek and helpful, trying to be considerate and fair to other posters. But as Cabron's madness grew and grew, and as others started chiming in to tease and torment him, I noticed that Michael began to join in. I think it was JonS's involvement that convinced Michael that teasing Cabron a bit couldn't really be wrong. Mockery and abusiveness by Andreas, Dorosh, Berli and myself, of course, made him think that he should probably be even-handed, but when JonS started mocking Cabron Emrys clearly decided to take the plunge. And what happpened? What you knew would happen. Emrys found that he liked it. Yeah, that first taste was all it took. Pretty soon Emrys was handing out mockery and abuse to all and sundry. I'm pretty sure he'll end up as a Made for TV Movie within the next year or so... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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