Agreed, Doug. Airsoft BB's aren't the same as paintballs. They would work perfectly as they would not be expensive to install, they would carry plenty of ammo (suggestion: limits for Airsoft ammo in the possible future could be whatever you can fit in your tank!), and they would make for lots more realism. Isn't that what we want to go for? I mean, the majority of tanks ever built carry one or more machine guns. Some used a MG for the main weapon. I say, go for what works in reality, and apply it to RC tanks. We can't use real machine guns, of course, so scale it down to Airsoft and there you go. We've already scaled down main guns to paintball guns, so it's the same idea. Now how about smoke grenade launchers...???
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Doug Smith <[email protected]>wrote: > Neil, A paintball is necessary for anything that can shoot back and kill > you. So artillery battieries need more power. But In reality during war men > on foot out numbered tanks 500 to one. Tanks were for protecting infantry > and opening lines for advancement. In general you did not want to go out > and look for other tanks that could kill you. You go after the weak and > defenseless. Now in this sport a new iteration would be to if you were > able to evade the enemy tanks and kill all their troops. As for the 6 mm > BBs paintballs I too do not use them. They seldom work and they gum up. I > would use copied pics of troops and if the Machine gun rips it up You > scored a kill. easy to set up and little to no cost. > Doug > > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Neil Rochford <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Ok Doug and Aaron , you have a valid point, in such a scenario 100 bbs >> take up less room than 40 paintballs, and in the real world you wouldn’t >> use a tank shell to take out a soldier, but in this hobby we all ready use >> infantry and we blast away at them quite happily using paintballs, the fact >> that infantry are harder to hit than a 3 foot tank gives a Field artillery >> an advantage and equally a tank has immunity from frontal hits, this in >> practice balances out to make a very interesting game. A tank can face an >> artillery piece and is fine and dandy knocking out its crew until an enemy >> tank arrives on the screen.****** >> >> If you wish to fit a bb machine gun to your tank then great, do it, Id >> love to see it work , new ideas help keep the hobby growing ,but personally >> I dont think hitting paper targets will measure up to painting 3D soldiers >> with .68 cal . >> >> I have tested 6mm bb sized paintballs and they often break somewhere in >> the gun. not very good. >> >> Neil R >> >> -- >> 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 >> > > -- > 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 > -- 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
