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Mechs are cooler
Always found WW1 tanks to look really cool in my eyes.Pic related: Schneider Ca1
im trying to design a ____ scale wargame played on a 6x4. modern warfare. but i want each side to only maybe field a max of 10 vehicleswhat scale is good for that, 20mm?
>>96862425Finding goofy earlier armoured vehicle design is a lot of fun. Just ordered one of these, hasn't arrived yet but think it'll go well with my sort-of-russian stereotype guard.
I have a valentine tank miniature. To me one of the most interesting tanks of the war, as it was conceived and designed by a private company (vickers) and ended up have a few MAJOR advantages over on paper much more impressive tanks. While it had okay armor, (better than a pz3) good to poor gun (depends on model) and a slow top speed It was EXTREMELY reliable. (depends on source it goes between the valentine and m4 shermans for most reliable tank of the war)It was cheap and easy to buildIt was light and easy to transport/get unstuck (for a tank).(it is also cute)
>>96862446Like each side gets a tank platoon and some support? I don't remember much 20mm modern war tank models, seemed to be largely focused on skirmishes with smaller boards. Try /hwg/ though, they'll likely have a better idea.
>>96862492Continuing with the whacky interwar designs. pic: Stridsvagn fm/3
>>96862446that's roughly half a company. I'd say 15mm or 6mm if you want a more realistic ground scale and more maneuver
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It is a pity that landcruisers never took off.
>>96862536It also had shitty armour and any gunner worth his salt could kill or incapacitate the driver with a shot to the vertical front plate.
>>96862425I agree. It's like how pre-Dreadnaughts and 1910s and 20s planes are cooler. Once people figured out the "optimal" form, everything got samey and boring.
>>96863902>shitty armourHow so? It had a glacis equivalent to many medium tanks of its time.>incapacitate the driver with a shot to the vertical front plateYou're placing a lot of faith in the mechanical accuracy of guns and skill of the gunners of the period. If such things were consistently possible, we wouldn't keep putting drivers to the front of the tank (much less ammo).
>>9686244620mm (1/72) is good if you have a limited budget, as most of the stuff is so cheap. Airfix, HAT, Plastic Soldier Company etc, all do very cheap tanks, artillery and infantry at that scale. You can also pick up occasional crazy cheap job lots on ebay if you dont mind a bit of repair or paint work yourself. I use this scale for games like Bolt Action and Squad Leader..
Got some retro stuff.
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>>96864157Onto some real stuff now.
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>>96863902You should stop using warthunder as a basis for how tanks performed.
*Warhammers your T-35*
>>96863922>Once people figured out the "optimal" form, everything got samey and boring.That's one great thing fantasy games have over historicals, you can just make your games with what you think is cool, disregarding what is or was optimal in real life.
>>96862446If you want the vehicles, terrain, and distances to all be in scale, and ranges to be as they are in modern vehicle combat, then you're probably going to need it to be 6mm (1:300 scale) or even smaller.If you want the vehicles to look good, you can't go much smaller than 1:72, which means scale distance will only be 100-150m, which is very close range for modern tanks. If you want to make it work you either need to accept that distances between vehicles won't be in scale with the vehicles themselves, or design it around a specific kind of battlefield where lines of sight are restricted, such as urban terrain.
>>96864137Wait did the gun not clear the piping (exhaust?) so they added a second gun at 180 degrees to cut down on time to target?
>>96865007No, that is pretty much just a T35, height of the "all the guns" school of tank design>>96862063I came up with a setting for a pbp forum game which was giant armoured mobile cities trundling around in a post-apocalyptic fuckscape, sending tanks out to do their scouting, escort foragers and the like and kill inconvenient giant monsters that might be in the panzer-city's path, p.o.v was going to be from a medium tank crew going out and doing stuff.
>>96866099You got a realize that early tank design was shaky on a lot of things, the first ww1 designs were pretty keen on venting exhaust fumes into the hull for ex, so your messenger pigeons also served as an early warning sign if it was time to crack a hatch when they passed out from gas build up.My personal favourite early tank retard thing is the Char 2C and its observation tower with a spinning cover to ensure you didn't get shot through the view slot, only thing was it spun very quickly so you basically couldn't see shit out of it.
When absolutely have to stop oil fields from burning... strap 2 Mig engines and a bunch of hoses to the top of a T-34.
>>96863766You know I've not really seen a lot of depictions of fixed-gun hovercraft, but I suppose a turret-less gun on a platform that could hypothetically spin much faster than a normal tank makes a lot of sense.
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>>96862536And everyone was glad that it was replaced.
>>96866155>No, that is pretty much just a T35yes it's a T-35 without the engine bay making it something like 30% shorter and more like the squat compressed table-friendly 40k tanks
I dunno if I want to waste image limit with my shitty art, there are a lot of cool tanks being posted here.
starship my beloved
>>96866379That applies to just about every tank.
Is 12 flamethrowers enough?
Does this count?
>>96864160the korean army uses something similar to this to allow viewing out of a MBT while in water, I believe.
>>96866941>turreted StuG
>>96864178this could be a really fun idea for a hellhound kitbash.
>>96862063What about a detailed set of tables for randomly generating tanks, OP?https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W4-dgBaLgthHrdhStTDzTV9f7pq96p_ZdV_Efh5jfMk/edit?usp=sharing
>>96866259Where does the line between a mech and a walking tank lie?>>96864157>t. Bob Semple>>96865007Missing sponsons. And a turret on top of the main turret. And a hull mount.>>96866718This is what Land Raider Redeemer should have been. Not two big new flamers, but Crusader style banks of six flamers on each sponson. With heavy flamers for the hull mount.
>The Adventures of Blake & Mortimer: The Time Trap
>>96867033>Missing sponsons. And a turret on top of the main turret. And a hull mount.good point, not sure how to show a hull mount on a side-profile though
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>>96866706https://youtu.be/h5hnbUcJKP4
>>96866224>MiG Brap Enginemy god
>>96866975Hugo Gernsback was obsessed with flamethrower tanks, he drew a bunch and promoted the concept hard.>>96867735It's absolutely wild to see how drones have impacted armoured warfare.
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>>96869561Not the first time in history we've seen wild innovation to a problem, but I'm sure once the dust settles, we can crunch the numbers and figure out just how deadly the things are statistically and what realistic measures can and should be taken to counter them.
>>96866379The Soviets liked it, they requested for it to be kept in production until the end of the war.
flat tanks look great
I’ve been casting old Rhino kits to chop them into new tanks. Here’s the 2 and 3 tank for my WIP tank platoon. They “convert” into heavy APC’s if you remove the push fit turrets.
>>96866078Im that anon. Tanks for the replies anonsMaybe a bigger board size? Ping pong table size?
>>96866078>If you want the vehicles to look good, you can't go much smaller than 1:72GHQ models mog most 15mm manufacturers. Of course if you go all in on proper 1:72 kits with photoetch it's going to look great, but then you're looking at GW prices per tank and a ton of work
>>96871215MT-LB is a true workhorse that you can put anything on
>>96871270Nice. What's your casting process?
>>96871429Thanks. It depends on the part. For the wide, thin track pieces, I do a squish mold. The other (panels, guns, sponsons) are done in a typical two-part or cut mold.
>>96870705I didn't know power armor was a concept even that far in the past. That's really cool.
>>96868225Too much suspension travel, it looks like it could go over inch tall obstackles without rocking violently.
>>96862621This is so French it hurts.
>>96871628Especially considering it's Swedish.
>>96871644Swedish engineers letting out their inner Frenchman...
I always wanted to try this but it slid into obscurity before I had the chance. (This is Slammer's Hammers war game, BTW.)
If you know, you know.If you don't, get a fat electrician to tell you about it.
>>96871605Flame and command tanks remind me of the OG Epic 40k Hellhounds.
>>96872903Priestly worked on both games. Similar inspirational ww1/2 basis.
>>96873064I wonder if he knows where the plastic track sprue for the Capitol Imperialis (also used for the Hellbore) came from? Best I can identify, it's M113 APC tracks, but was it like an abandoned project for Warhammer Historicals or something they acquired from another company?
Had I the money I'd buy some tanks from heavy gear because though limited, I do enjoy the AST's armor offerings.As for my setting, the cool tanks are all either hovercraft (actual hover skirts or sci-fi vertical jet engines) or screw propelled. And they have oscillating turrets because those are sexy as fuck
>>96871526It's not powered.
>>96871731I always found it weird this thing was just tossed aside despite being so beloved by the troops and feared by their enemies.
>>96862063Representing tiny tanks... 6mm scaleMostly game with Ostfront 2nd edition.
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