New Zealand is not Oz (not yet anyway). When will you Canadians get it right.
On 11/11/09 4:08 AM, "Steve Tyng" <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
