Armoured trains

[PatG]

Thanks for the links blazejos - now I can get away from a "German bias" . It looks like the Type II artillery cars on Danuta are going to be 2 hexes long.

[PatG]

Next up, just a flat with repair materials, some additional notes on scaling and a BMP of an in game display of all the icons to date.

[PatG]

The Polish are coming the Polish are coming!

Type II artillery car as used on Danuta. Put the 100 mm in slot 4 to represent the second "front" turret.

Cheers

[blazejos]

Hey Pat thanks for this polish armoured train wagon is nice and very good. Polish painted armoured trains like a tanks because armoured trains was in Armour weapons command so in years 30-34 they were green than in 1934-1936 camo with black lines betwen green , sand and brick color and in years 1936-1939 in camo green , sand, brick without black lines see icons of polish armoured vehicles. And was too of course a winter camo with non regular white on the standart camo. Desert version dosn't exist . You made this polish trains tickle our national pride because in armoured trains poland was a power

[PatG]

MarkSheppard said:
Crossposted from another forum I'm a member of

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Thanks for the information Mark - much appreciated. Do these sources give any information on armour ratings?


Thanks

[PatG]

Repaint of the Type II in 3 colours for blazejos and the Tatra drasine.

[PatG]

Sorry not Polish though.

Slot 346
Fahrkarte in die Heimat - A train ticket home.

Featuring a Soviet attack on a German train at the wars end. (yes again)

A bit better playtested and costed out but not perfect.

Conserve your Pz IV pursuit car shots for worth while targets.

The H-39 carrier gets 3 shots each of main gun and mg - to be "honest", you should use these before unloading.

If possible I would like feedback on the accuracy of the train unit values. The over all feel of the units etc.

[PatG]

An article for the Total Art of War but has generally useful information.
Soviet Armoured Trains

And another one for the Soviets but with drawings... If you salivate when thinking about British Independant tanks or Soviet T-35s then look at these monsters.

Armored Trains

[blazejos]

This last site with a rusian armoured trains was wery good. Don't forget too about railway artilery that shuld be nice see that monster guns in game as a off map artilery and as a not firing object especialy for special misions

Rusians Railroad guns
http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/g...y/railroad.htm
http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/w..._railroad.html
http://tanxheaven.com/nic/TM-3-12rai...ailroadgun.htm
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/rail...0guns%201.html

Germans guns

Dora the bigest http://palpatine.chez-alice.fr/Page13/page13.htm

another
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp_K5
http://www.one35th.com/model/k5/k5_gh-others.htm
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/rail...s%20index.html


French
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/rail...s%20index.html

Italian
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/rail...s%20index.html

British
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/rail...s%20index.html

United States
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/rail...s%20index.html

Czechoslovakian
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/rail...s%20index.html


History of origin railways guns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_gun
http://southern.railfan.net/ties/1961/61-12/art.html

[PatG]

My enforced vacation is over tomorrow - I have a new contract - so I won't be doing as much work on the trains .

My current priority is to complete the German heavy and light independant scout train icons and draw up a list of values to put in the scenario editor.

Next up would be to work more on the Polish trains hopefully getting enough icons done to make up one prototypical train. The TK Renault draisines look particularily interesting.

Further down the line are Russian train units.

Much further down the line - railway guns In deference to my heritage I will probably begin with British ones.