Greg wrote: > Hmm, actually that wouldn't work. The tank only had Bren LMGs on it and to > cannon, so it could be a support vehicle but nothing else.
Don't they teach you to read instructions down there in OZ? Per the rules, a tank is any fully tracked vehicle, so the Semple (a fully tracked vehicle) IS NOT regulated to lowly supply vehicle status. About the lack of a cannon, not an issue. The rules don't qualify armament based on what the original had, armament is based on vehicle type, if it's a tank it can have a paintball marker. If you want to get really cool, we can invoke the multiple main gun exception because the Semple had six of the same gun. The rule states "Models of vehicles that carried more than one main gun may be equipped with multiple paintball markers, provided that only one marker fires per operator firing motion". Instead of one marker we can now have six slinging paintballs in all directions! Since we're talking small caliber, you can only have a 30 round magazine, but who cares? Bump the ammo capacity a little if you'd like (nobody really counts paintballs anyway ;-) On the armor thickness which determines the number of hits for a kill. Obviously we want to get the four hits if we can manage it. Wikipedia says 8+12.7 for armor, so we're looking at 20.7mm for max thickness. This kinda sucks because that only get us two hits for a kill. BUT, Wikipedia being what it is, I say there's an ERROR! The up-armoring of this vehicle added an extra 25 TONS! I don't know how heavy corrugated iron is but it can't be that heavy! It was made for making water tanks for gosh sakes, not for fending off 88mm shells, how thick can it be? I say they layered a bunch of this stuff to get to that 25 tons and I bet a quick and loose mathematical analysis comparing surface area and the average weight of corrugated iron will PROVE a much thicker armor thickness on the Semple. Maybe not the 70mm needed for a four hit defensive rating, but easily a three hit rating! Lastly, the Semple was slower than molasses, but there's no speed limit in R/C Tank Combat. Build it to go 20mph!!!!!!!! Greg, In my opinion, your Semple tank can be the next stage in R/C Tank Combat evolution. A true landmark vehicle that will instantly obsolete all existing vehicles. I say build it! Steve "I Read The Rules" Tyng --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You are currently subscribed to the "R/C Tank Combat" group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] Visit the group at http://groups.google.com/group/rctankcombat -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
