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Offline DMVIAGRA

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Karl Geraet
« on: October 27, 2011, 06:04:39 AM »
I think this is a cool, little tool...



It's a Karl Geraet, looks like an artillery piece.....



I don't think this should be added, but it is a nice piece of machinery, look at the size of the shell....
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Offline Debrody

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Re: Karl Geraet
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2011, 09:19:11 AM »
Sturmkampfflugzeug magnet.
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Re: Karl Geraet
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2011, 10:41:31 AM »
Quote from: DMVIAGRA on October 27, 2011, 06:04:39 AM
I think this is a cool, little tool...

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It's a Karl Geraet, looks like an artillery piece.....

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I don't think this should be added, but it is a nice piece of machinery, look at the size of the shell....
:salute they find these monsters after the war, captuered or dismanteled?
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Offline Bubbajj

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Re: Karl Geraet
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2011, 02:34:27 PM »
Germans sure did waste a lot of time and effort on some odd stuff. you coulda made five Panthers out of that thing.
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Re: Karl Geraet
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2011, 05:16:46 PM »
Quote from: Bubbajj on November 10, 2011, 02:34:27 PM
Germans sure did waste a lot of time and effort on some odd stuff. you coulda made five Panthers out of that thing.

It was more of a propaganda tool than anything. Hitler wanted projects like these built so he can show his military's strength.
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Offline Oldman731

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Re: Karl Geraet
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2011, 07:44:47 PM »
Quote from: Bubbajj on November 10, 2011, 02:34:27 PM
Germans sure did waste a lot of time and effort on some odd stuff. you coulda made five Panthers out of that thing.

Heh.  Five Panthers?  With the effort that went into the development and production of this thing, you probably could have made a Panther battalion.

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Offline PR3D4TOR

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Re: Karl Geraet
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2011, 08:13:23 PM »
The seven SP siege mortars were all built in 1940 and 1941 and were actually effective in the east against the Soviets who had built significant static fortifications.
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Re: Karl Geraet
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2011, 11:37:09 PM »
Well as soon as we need to reduce Warsaw to rubble, we'll push for HTC to build this one....
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Re: Karl Geraet
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2011, 06:39:10 PM »
Actually, I was thinking, what if every sector had one of these guys. They'd be easily destroyed as radar, but when left alone, just like radar, they're deadly. Manned gun, same reload time as in real life, but one shot should be able to take an entire town center down. Could be assigned to a base, so when you capture it, you get control.
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Quote from: guncrasher on August 16, 2012, 04:48:31 AM

  the game is concentrated on combat, not on shaking the screen.

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Re: Karl Geraet
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2011, 05:59:17 PM »
Wouldn't do much good in game. It's a siege-mortar, not a howitzer. The maximum range with the lightest shell was just over six miles. Also it took ten minutes to reload it.
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Offline RTHolmes

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Re: Karl Geraet
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2011, 06:05:31 PM »
I'd love to see/hear one of these fire. I bet you can see the shell in the air :rock
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Re: Karl Geraet
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2011, 06:09:42 PM »
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Re: Karl Geraet
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2011, 06:11:24 PM »
if they didnt have machine help, how many men would be used to reload that beast!?




also...i think this would be fun to take out to a GV fight. :t
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Re: Karl Geraet
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2011, 05:58:03 PM »
Scroll through this link lots of photos here.

http://www.histomil.com/viewtopic.php?f=95&t=3918&start=1120
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Offline Charge

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Re: Karl Geraet
« Reply #14 on: November 16, 2011, 01:54:07 AM »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sevastopol_%281941%E2%80%931942%29

Take a look at the forces participating the siege.

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