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RMD, do your rules give special defence values to dug in tanks?

valleyboy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 6:58 am Great stuff Buff

I'm apowet and I knowet

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 7:27 am I think I'll pass on stuffing Buff.

Didn’t fancy re-enacting that scene from The Revenant anyway.

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2019 7:33 am RMD, do your rules give special defence values to dug in tanks?

Yes, but mobility is a bit difficult when they're that well dug-in...

To explain - each TY Leopard 1 model comes with two turret-types, so I'm using generic olive drab hulls with different turrets for Canadians, Germans and Dutch.

http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2018/10/17/ ... d-1-tanks/

In a final burst of enthusiasm before the 1st April deadline, I got five 15mm Canadian Leopard 1s finished last night, for 60 points (I'll post up the photo when I get home). So my final score stands at 1,056.

Oh hang on, the deadline's 31st April...

Or possibly the 30th...

I seem to remember Tim (the Canadian chap, ex Leopards) posting a picture of one of theirs turret deep in water...



This one possibly...

I reckon they're just using Leo 1 turrets as part of a Maginot line.

String the huns out, cover W Germany in persistent chemicals and stop them on the Rhine with fixed fortifications. What could possibly go wrong.

Etranger wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 3:23 am Or possibly the 30th...

I seem to remember Tim (the Canadian chap, ex Leopards) posting a picture of one of theirs turret deep in water...



This one possibly...

That's an Abrams, but Tim definitely posted some great photos of his own Leopard while trying to get his 'Submariners' Badge'...

Anyway, here are my latest Leopards:

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 4:01 am I reckon they're just using Leo 1 turrets as part of a Maginot line.

String the huns out, cover W Germany in persistent chemicals and stop them on the Rhine with fixed fortifications. What could possibly go wrong.

Funnily enough, the Austrians did exactly that and used hundreds of tank turrets in fixed fortifications - particularly ex-British and ex-Dutch Centurion turrets, but also Sherman, Chaffee, M36, M47, T-34/85 and Charioteer turrets. There's an Austrian military museum based on one of the bunker complexes that still has loads of tank turrets still in situ. The Cloggies also had quite a lot of Firefly and Ram turrets in fixed defences - In 1990 I remember seeing a Firefly turret that was still being used near the German border, somewhere near Roermond.