How did armored trains see ANY success at all, when train tracks are so easy to sabotage?
there is an incentive not to sabotage the tracks, in that you can begin using them for your own once you have controlled the territory. sabotaging your enemy for short term while long term fucking yourself.
Train tracks are easy to repair, but you need to protect the workers while they're repairing the tracks. The best way to do that is with an armored train.
>>65328485They patrol the tracks, and have enough artillery and MGs to drive partisians back into the forests or swamps.
>>65328485Because you probably misunderstand how the train was used. It doesn't just roam up and down the tracks waiting to be attacked, or rolling down the rail line into enemy-held territory like a land battleship. The armored train is for use on railways you already control but are threatened by sabotage. The tracks are patrolled by infantry stationed at points along the line, the train sits idle at some point and waits for something to happen. When the infantry patrols are attacked or someone sabotages the rail line, the armored train rolls out to bring reinforcements, repair crews, and heavier weapons to the site of the battle.
>Both Kane and Johnson's approach, parallel to the Florești-to-Ploiești railway, had the unfortunate distinction of encountering Gerstenberg's "Die Raupe" ("the caterpillar"), a disguised flak train. The advantage, however, would rest with the B-24s, whose gunners quickly responded to the threat, disabling the locomotive and killing multiple air defense crews
>>65328772They really named a train "Die, Rape"
>>65328712> or rolling down the rail line into enemy-held territory like a land battleshipi read that this is what germans did in 1918 during operation Faustschlag
>>65328485It was used as mobile artillery. A rail-bound self-propelled howitzer, so to speak. The Poles had a couple of them in 1939 and one of them apparently was quite useful.
>>65328485Tracks are pretty hard to sabotage. What's more, everybody involved relied on them being in good shape.>>65328712>It doesn't just roam up and down the tracks waiting to be attacked, or rolling down the rail line into enemy-held territory like a land battleshipThey did fulfill assault duties on the Eastern Front of WW1 and during the postwar Yugo invasion of Austria, actually. Hauled infantry and all the guns installed on them right into the enemy position or line of attack. Italians also used them as literal land battleships as well, patrolling up and down the coast, dealing with attacking Austrian battleship formations. And on the Western Front, all factions employed railway guns as platforms to deploy battleship cannons towards the trenches.
>>65328485>when train tracks are so easy to sabotageThey're also easy to repair.
>>65328485>train tracks are so easy to sabotage?They really aren't, at least if you want to do it properly so they aren't easily repaired, it's actually a fairly involved process.
>>65330085that image is wrong. her tanktop had faint stripes on it. I know because of beat off to her tits multiple times
>>65328485>retreat to friendly armored train thats positioned near another pair of tracks>have another train pull up behind enemy with armored train>you now have enemy between two armored trainsfun fact, estonia wanted to do armored train dessant but bad weather ruined any attempt
>>65330085>>65330184as always, AIslop is no match for the human spirit.
>>65328586This, tracks are designed to be fast to lay and replace.
>I have this shitty question that can be answered by search engines and AI. I have no input on my own but this question. I will not partake in the discussion as well. Now please, answer as I read your replies for personal entertainment. Has discussion culture died?
>>65330252Lay a railway that points at your target, shoot, wait a couple of hours to reload shoot....There's no way that makes sense.
>>65328772>fucking B-24s doing gun runs on flak batteries with their defensive weaponsjeeeeeesus. I knew Tidal Wave was a shitshow but that's insane.>>65334013I mean trainfags are severely autistic so that checks out.
>>65334013That's a job for Discord, just like killing search was a job for Google.
>>65328712>land battleshipI ken its not how they where usually used, but the idea of a massive armoured locomotive and train rolling in to engage the enemy like a battleship on tracks will never not please me, and in several fictional worlds I've worked on they do do this.
>>65330085>>65330184She is most likely in her 40s by now.
