Yes, I was about to point out that New Zealand is not Australia, contrary to popular belief. Also us Kiwi's actually look down on Tasmania, or at least those in the northern half of the North Island. I may one day build that tank.
Corrugated iron weighs a couple of kg per square metre also, so 25 tons would be quite a lot of iron. -Gregory On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Ben Holko <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
