SpazManOught Posted March 8, 2002 Share Posted March 8, 2002 As I hace not witnessed tanks in action i can only form my opions based on military history. In a book I am currently reading(TANKS, by Patrick Wright) an eye witness describes his first encounter with a tank in WW1. "They can chew up barbed wire and turn it into munitions. As they run they slash their tails and clear away trees, horses, howitzers, and anything else in the vicinity. They turn over on their backs and catch live shells in their caterpiller feet, and they can easily be adapted as submarines; in fact, most of them crossed the Channel in this guise. They loop the loop, travel forwards, sideways and backwards, not only with equal speed, but at the same time. They spin round like a top, only far more quickly, dig themselves in, bury themselves, scoop out a tunnel, and come out again ten miles away in half an hour" My question is if the British Mk1 tank could do this why can't my Shermans. Was it too hard to code the tunneling aspect? BTS please fix or do somefink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted March 8, 2002 Share Posted March 8, 2002 Originally posted by SpazManOught: My question is if the British Mk1 tank could do this why can't my Shermans.The Shermans were an American design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted March 8, 2002 Share Posted March 8, 2002 How to adapt the tanks in CM as submarines? Try Command-option-shift-W. W for Water, of course Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croda Posted March 8, 2002 Share Posted March 8, 2002 Use the 'Hunt' Command. That's what it does. *Why don't people read the damend instruction book???* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruno Weiss Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 They loop the loop...Eyewitness accounts can be deceiving, obviously the subject was referring here to one of CM's M20 Grauhunds. Faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall Tigers in a single bound, more powerful than a speeding AP shell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 I hope BTS sneaks undocumented command 'cookies' into CMBB. Like option-control keypad 8 rotates the soldiers faces randomly. Something just to mess with our minds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Das Reich Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 Originally posted by MikeyD: How to adapt the tanks in CM as submarines? Try Command-option-shift-W. W for Water, of courseThis brings up something interesting... Anyone know much about the German submarine tanks which were produced (very limited numbers, I believe) for the aborted invasion of the British Isles. I am not sure how many of these were made, but the idea was for them to drive on the channel floor and surface on the beaches of England. Of course, it was a disaster waiting to happen. And luckily for whomever would have been in those things, it never came to be. But I was wondering if anyone knows of a good picture of one of these things, or a detailed drawing, would be on the web? I have read about this thing and never seen it. I don't even remember which tank it was supposed to be designed from... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnergoz Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 There was a version of the Pz III that was adapted to snorkel underwater for limited distances and could have been used of Sealion by being launched from barges offshore. There's no way that they could have made it accross the open channel alone. About a regiment's worth was made and they ended up on the Eastern Front, where they could be used to cross some rivers submerged. This was a very risky proposition in any case...if the tank stalled, all the crew could do is flood the tank and swim out using momsen lungs or small O2 breathing tanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 Originally posted by Das Reich: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by MikeyD: How to adapt the tanks in CM as submarines? Try Command-option-shift-W. W for Water, of courseThis brings up something interesting... Anyone know much about the German submarine tanks which were produced (very limited numbers, I believe) for the aborted invasion of the British Isles. I am not sure how many of these were made, but the idea was for them to drive on the channel floor and surface on the beaches of England. Of course, it was a disaster waiting to happen. And luckily for whomever would have been in those things, it never came to be. But I was wondering if anyone knows of a good picture of one of these things, or a detailed drawing, would be on the web? I have read about this thing and never seen it. I don't even remember which tank it was supposed to be designed from...</font> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 I think the guy that made that observation in the book was spending a wee bit to much time with the Mustard Gas canisters. Mord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Murrin Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 Originally posted by Michael emrys: They were operationally employed at the opening of Barbarossa by crossing the Bug river. Never heard what became of them afterwards, but I suspect they were returned to normal configuration and eventually expended in battle. Too bad there isn't a museum example of one knocking about somewhere.There's a little voice in the back of my mind telling me the Russians scraped one off the bottom of the river not more than a decade or two ago. Nathanael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manchildstein (ii) Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 Originally posted by Das Reich: 'schnorkel?' i think they were pzIIIs and some may have been used in crossing the 'bug' river at the opening of the war in the east against the soviets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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