Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: DMVIAGRA on October 27, 2011, 06:04:39 AM
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I think this is a cool, little tool...
(http://strangevehicles.greyfalcon.us/mauspic/karl.jpg)
It's a Karl Geraet, looks like an artillery piece.....
(http://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/imgs/karl-gerat_3.jpg)
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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Sturmkampfflugzeug magnet.
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I think this is a cool, little tool...
(http://strangevehicles.greyfalcon.us/mauspic/karl.jpg)
It's a Karl Geraet, looks like an artillery piece.....
(http://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/imgs/karl-gerat_3.jpg)
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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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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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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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.
- oldman
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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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Well as soon as we need to reduce Warsaw to rubble, we'll push for HTC to build this one....
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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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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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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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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzgrNWMDkhI
You're that curious?
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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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Scroll through this link lots of photos here.
http://www.histomil.com/viewtopic.php?f=95&t=3918&start=1120
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Sevastopol_%281941%E2%80%931942%29
Take a look at the forces participating the siege.
-C+
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What a beautiful model (1st picture) Nice job on painting the figure as well
Helm ...out
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It was more of a propaganda tool than anything. Hitler wanted projects like these built so he can show his military's strength.
They were Siege Guns. No "propaganda".
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They were Siege Guns. No "propaganda".
I'm sure there must have been SOME ONE on Hitler's board that noticed "Hey, you can just make 5 Tanks instead of this thing". Hitler must have knew that, he just wanted it anyway to show his miltary's strength. It's a drive weapon, I know, but for an army that was based on fast moving blitzkrieg tactics, I can't imagine it being built for any other reason but propaganda.