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Just finished reading Letter of the Law and I was so into it I had to paint some of the 'Mechs featured in it. Here we have Star Commander Morwen's Shadow Cat, from the Clan Protectorate's Beta Strike Cluster!
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You know, there are always people asking “why not just field 40 Savannah Masters?” After all, why not? They’re cheap, hit hard for their speed and price tag, and can outpace a Firemoth.
Well, having looked into it myself, the reason is simple: It’s hard to find 40 people suicidal enough to drive those Savannah Masters. And even if you do find 40 people with a death wish, there then comes the issue of training those 40 people to drive hovercraft that zoom around at over 200 kph while also aiming and firing the laser, all without crashing into a brick wall or a mech’s foot. Without proper training, the Savannah Masters’ pilots are either going to total their vehicle before it can get a shot off, or they’ll sit still to line up a shot and get themselves totaled because their armor is 95% speed. Ultimately, if you have the people willing to deploy in 40 Savannah Masters, you’d usually be better off sending them out in 13 Hetzers.
The real kicker though is that I know there are cultures that produce warriors with the dedication, lack of survival instinct, and skill to effectively deploy them in 40 Savannah Masters; only problem is that most of those cultures historically produce people who see driving combat vehicles as a grave insult to their personal honor.
-Cia
You should recruit from Clan Hell's Horses then.
- Melissa
You want to take defensive contracts in border systems around their territory and wait for a Mad Stampede.
Once they are on the ground they are going to scatter. This is when you mobilize. Mobilize but nor deploy.
It's once you can extrapolate a general direction of trial you start to deploy. Common sense would suggest picking off stragglers but that doesn't earn respect.
So you are going to start with the front-runners and work your way back. You will want motive kills. Take surrenders. Claim the prisoners as Bondsmen.
Congratulations. You have crew for your Savannah Masters. Just be warned. If it can move, Hells Horses will race it.
Just do not place too much money on them. It will piss off the locals and you do not want that.
This has been "How to crew your Combat Vehicles" by Star Colonel Jehan MacKenzie. Tune in next time for "Why footballers make the best Elementals, and the converse."
Would designating or “bidding” sacrificial Hetzers be useful in reducing the damages caused by the races, or would that just result in them hot-rodding the Hetzers?
-Cia
Wait what am I saying, hot-rodded Hetzers would probably be more efficient and reliable than one new off the assembly line; either way, think I know where the CA will be heading next after the current operation’s over.
-Cia
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let's go for a drive
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comstar lrm carrier
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Question. Do you know any good tanks with Jump Jet capabilities? I've heard of the Kanga Jump Tank and I kinda wanted to expand the capabilities of my tank force a bit since a jump-jet capable tank sounds real fun.
Thanks!
There are four models of hover jump tank on the official books: the Saladin Ifrit, the Hephaestus (jump tank, non-Omni version), the SLDF’s Kanga hover jump tank and the experimental Kanga-X from the Wolves-in-Exile and Hell’s Horses.
The Saladin Ifrit is in XTRO: Periphery:
The Hephaestus Jump Tank is in TRO: Prototypes:
The Kanga-X is in XTRO: Mercs
and the standard Kanga is in TRO: 3050 Upgrade
that's all four.
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"Barrel cam" of Tiger tanks in action on the Eastern Front
Bradley: Second to None (1982 FMC Corp. Promo)
Source: youtube.com
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tanks are cool
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what's the biggest tank that's actually been used?
The answer to that would depend on what you mean by "used".
The largest tank ever produced was the German PzKpfw. VIII "Maus", an ungodly mess of a vehicle and the reason that I have blood pressure issues. However, only two hulls and one turret were ever completed, giving the German army just enough time to figure out that it was a stupid idea, and that the damned thing was barely able to move under its own power before the testing grounds were captured by the oncoming Red Army.
The heaviest tank to ever actually take to the battlefield was the German Pz.Jgr. Tiger Ausf. B, or the Jagdtiger. It was a 75-ton tank destroyer employed by the German army in the later years of WW2, built upon the chassis of the infamous Tiger II, and inheriting it's propensity for mechanical failure and self-destruct-button of a transmission.
Hope that answers your question, and if not, feel free to ask for clarification in the notes!
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Soviet soldiers next to the lend-lease M4 Sherman tank. Germany, spring 1945
If anyone is interested in a first hand account on Sherman's in Soviet service I highly recommend Dmitiry Loza's Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks.
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Parallel parking with the Strv 103, 1986
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1951 Sherman vs T-34 - Shin Ueda
Here are some detail shots of the Demolisher C I recently finished. This was a 3D print printed for me by one of the guys in my local gaming group, AeonStorm. No idea where he found the STL file. Pretty close to being 1/1 with the new official Catalyst plastic Demolisher.
MY LATEST WORK
I have two recent additions to my Clan Ghost Bear forces; a Kit Fox V and a Demolisher C. That's right, a shit box with Arrow IV and a Clan grade Demolisher.
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The end of an era