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Schwerer Gustav
« on: July 27, 2011, 09:35:27 PM »
Ok. I don't know if everybody knows what they are, even though they should...

They were big railway guns built by Germany during WWII. Like, massive.



Can anyone tell me anything as to how they performed in real life, and would they ever be of any use to AH?


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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2011, 09:38:39 PM »


Can anyone tell me anything as to how they performed in real life, and would they ever be of any use to AH?



Is your google broken?


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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2011, 09:45:18 PM »
Were these mounted on the side of mountains? Or was that another giant German gun I'm thinking of....
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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2011, 09:47:09 PM »
Ok. I don't know if everybody knows what they are, even though they should...

They were big railway guns built by Germany during WWII. Like, massive.

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Can anyone tell me anything as to how they performed in real life, and would they ever be of any use to AH?


:rofl! Imagine the perk cost for one of those....

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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2011, 02:16:10 PM »
Were these mounted on the side of mountains? Or was that another giant German gun I'm thinking of....

I believe your thinking of the V3

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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2011, 08:55:15 PM »
:rofl! Imagine the perk cost for one of those....

800 perkies... gone in two shots.

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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2011, 10:27:42 PM »
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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2011, 12:58:06 AM »
Ok...so I was told to consult the Almighty Google...great. I know it was an 800 caliber gun, took forever to reload, and both (Dora and Gustav) were destroyed. Tyrannis is the only one who read both questions, it would seem :P

How do you think it would fare in AH?

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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2011, 09:00:17 AM »
Ok...so I was told to consult the Almighty Google...great. I know it was an 800 caliber gun, took forever to reload, and both (Dora and Gustav) were destroyed. Tyrannis is the only one who read both questions, it would seem :P

How do you think it would fare in AH?

Honestly it wouldn't be in Aces high at all. Here's a little info on the Dora Gun - it took over 2500 men to help build the Embankment and lay the tracks for the gun, along with over 250 to set up the Gun for firing, also supporting this massive waste of resources was 2 flak batteries for air defense.

Also this massive gun really only fired a handful of times each time, problem with aces high although we have the shore batteries with a Line of sight and they fire directly at the target, where this railroad gun fired indirect - I would assume it would be aimed like an 8 inch gun without any line of sight, you click on the map and fire away and wait however long for a reload.

Its a wonder weapon like the Nukes or V-2 - neither will see Aces High, but nevertheless really cool to research.
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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2011, 02:27:37 AM »
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Schwerer+Gustav


 :rofl Although, yes very cool I dont see this being added to Aces High any time soon.
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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2011, 02:58:33 AM »
I think that we'd see the German Rat tank before this....   :bolt:

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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2011, 04:49:38 PM »
The what??

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« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2011, 05:16:49 PM »
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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2011, 05:28:15 PM »
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Re: Schwerer Gustav
« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2011, 06:51:03 PM »
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Bet you have a hell of a time trying to parrallel park that...