Author Topic: New Jeep (Read 1758 times)

SMIDSY · « **Reply #15 on:** March 07, 2006, 09:43:18 PM »

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Originally posted by Tails
No! I'm Sparticus!

THE HELL YOU ARE!!!!! I AM SPARTICUS!!! who else but Sparticus would have an ice fortress? nobody, thats who.

zorstorer · « **Reply #16 on:** March 08, 2006, 12:29:33 AM »

Where are the cartoon guys with a drawing of this jeep....could make for some laughs

Furball · « **Reply #17 on:** March 08, 2006, 01:16:24 AM »

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Originally posted by NoBaddy
Excellent way to insure that you see nothing the next time you visit.

or anyone else for that matter!

Furball · « **Reply #18 on:** March 08, 2006, 01:18:51 AM »

i was hoping for an SAS jeep, but it doesnt look like we are getting it. sounds cool tho. wonder what it will be used for, will be like an M8 without armour and cannon.

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The jeeps were heavily armed with combinations of both Browning and Vickers K machine guns. The ex-aircraft Vickers weapons were generally mounted in pairs and a total of up to five machine guns were carried on some vehicles. The effectiveness of this armament firing a mix of ball, armour-piercing and tracer shells can be judged from one assault on an airfield where 12 aircraft were destroyed in a five minute raid. With all guns blazing a single SAS jeep could deliver an impressive 5000 rounds per minute! The net result was that over 400 aircraft had been destroyed on the ground by November 1942. Stirling was finally captured in 1943 but escaped four times before being sent to Colditz where he spent the rest of the war.

As the front moved from Africa to Italy and then on into Northwest Europe so did the SAS. The scale of each action varied tremendously. In one operation (codenamed Houndsmith), 144 men were parachuted with jeeps and supplies into an area close to Dijon, France. In another four men in two jeeps killed or wounded 60 SS men destroying two staff cars and a truck in the process at the village of Les Ormes, France.

By late 1944 the SAS were operating behind German lines in Europe. Further modifications to the jeeps included the use of armour plate with bullet-proof glass screen at the front and a wire cutter fitted to the front bumper of some vehicles.

The effectiveness of the SAS in Europe during W.W.II can be judged from the fact that they inflicted 7,733 German casualties, 4,784 prisoners were captured and 700 vehicles were either destroyed or captured. 164 railways were cut, seven trains were destroyed and a further thirty-three derailed. The SAS was briefly disbanded at the end of W.W.II but the methods of organisation and operations had set the pattern for future SAS action in the Falklands and Gulf Wars

SMIDSY · « **Reply #19 on:** March 08, 2006, 02:46:20 AM »

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Originally posted by zorstorer
Where are the cartoon guys with a drawing of this jeep....could make for some laughs

meh, guess i could churn one out.

zorstorer · « **Reply #20 on:** March 08, 2006, 06:57:39 AM »

lol thanks smidsy

uberhun · « **Reply #21 on:** March 08, 2006, 07:16:59 AM »

The Ice Fortress is the best SMIDSY:aok

SMIDSY · « **Reply #22 on:** March 08, 2006, 05:57:09 PM »

hehe, nice to know people apreciate my work.

nirvana · « **Reply #23 on:** March 08, 2006, 06:27:07 PM »

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Originally posted by SMIDSY
hehe, nice to know people apreciate my work.

I don't:p

Masherbrum · « **Reply #24 on:** March 08, 2006, 08:01:41 PM »

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Originally posted by SMIDSY
THE HELL YOU ARE!!!!! I AM SPARTICUS!!! who else but Sparticus would have an ice fortress? nobody, thats who.

I am, you imposter.

Karaya

Hoarach · « **Reply #25 on:** March 08, 2006, 08:47:15 PM »

This isnt supposed to be taken seriously just for laughs. You want the ultimate tank killer, how about this.

Jebus · « **Reply #26 on:** March 08, 2006, 09:53:03 PM »

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Originally posted by Hoarach
This isnt supposed to be taken seriously just for laughs. You want the ultimate tank killer, how about this.

No the "Lazers" on it are way to under modeled. Plus the armor is not thick enough to repell a tank shell.

Tails · « **Reply #27 on:** March 08, 2006, 10:18:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Hoarach
This isnt supposed to be taken seriously just for laughs. You want the ultimate tank killer, how about this.

**PIC SNIPPED**

No thanks. I'm more of a Diashi man myself. Atlas is just too smurfy.

SMIDSY · « **Reply #28 on:** March 08, 2006, 11:57:27 PM »

HAY!! YOU JUST CUT AND PASTED MY ROBOT!!!!!

Martyn · « **Reply #29 on:** March 10, 2006, 03:51:43 AM »

And a Kubelwagon with a spandau! You could have Jeep/Kubelwagon 'dogfights' - but you'd have to perk the jeep - particularly the SAS version. Then the Brits would have the Bren Carrier - THAT would have to be perked because of the armour, although not as fast as the other two it was less affected by the terrain, so I suppose those little italian tankettes would be included too . Oh - what did the Japs have?

Then a Tyffie wipes the field!

But - if you could pick up downed pilots, you could engineer scenarios where pilots bomb the FH, bale out and join waiting jeeps, go on to vulch the enemy field or help bring down the town.

Phew! Are there trucks coming too?