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The Brits had the right answer with the Chieftan. Thumping great big gun, thumping great big sheet of armour, and a Rorke's Drift type engine which would see your tankers fight to the last.

Totals updated...Let me know if wrong...

My totals...
15mm 24+24+17 = 65 x 3 = 195 points
28mm 51 x 5 = 255 points

And still more to come...

Still weeks to go until the deadline! Get painting!

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grizzlymc wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:59 am ....and a Rorke's Drift type engine which would see your tankers fight to the last.

Usually because the engine (made by British Leyland, let's not forget!) had broken down and they couldn't get away.

Cunning British plan

BaronVonWreckedoften wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 8:32 am

grizzlymc wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 2:59 am ....and a Rorke's Drift type engine which would see your tankers fight to the last.

Usually because the engine (made by British Leyland, let's not forget!) had broken down and they couldn't get away.

Mainly due to a NATO stipulation that all new tanks had to be multi-fuel... That every other NATO nation then ignored...

This accurately describes the UK's dealings with the rest of the world since WW2... We apply the rules to the nth degree and then add more of our own to make the regulation even more 'fair' and everyone else just ignores the bits they don't like and fucks us over...

RMD wrote: ↑Tue Apr 09, 2019 3:54 pm This accurately describes the UK's dealings with the rest of the world since WW2... We apply the rules to the nth degree and then add more of our own to make the regulation even more 'fair' and everyone else just ignores the bits they don't like and fucks us over...

When I was working for British Steel Strip Products back in the 90s, we received orders (not instructions, mind - orders!) to NOT publicise, under any circumstances - and to deny to the press - that it had made a major sale of automotive steels to Mercedes Benz. The customer was worried that the German unions would go on strike because it had bought "foreign" steel.

unfortunately not a practice that continued post the merger when IJmuiden got all the best European contracts

Re Chieftain engines - a few years ago I had a trip out on the briny on HMS Exploit, one of the RN's university training vessels. When we had a look in the engine room, there were two bloody great Leyland multi-fuel Chieftain engines with 'DO NOT MARINISE' cast onto the top-cover...

Apparently when they built them, they were meant to have sooper-dooper gas turbine engines and power-steering. They've even got hydrofoils underneath, so they could 'plane' out of the water at high speed. However, the costs were racking up and Chieftain was being retired and there were hundreds of Chieftain engines sitting in a shed in Bicester... You can guess the rest... So they're now the world's slowest 'patrol-boats' but still needing the strength of Hercules to turn the rudder and the only time anyone ever sees the hydrofoils is when they're in dry-dock.

Sorry, that should have been 1,098 earlier, not 1,198!

Anyway, here's another Leopard for 12 points, bringing my corrected total to 1,110.

I've just finished these - The Dystopia Carabinieri (actually the civil police).

In times of national emergency the Carabinieri are required to provide a battalion of infantry for active service. Slow to manoeuvre and not certainly not known for the accuracy of their musketry, they are however second to none in a brawl.

12 x 7 points please.