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Old June 30th, 2008, 07:40 PM
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Default Re: Whats in a bunker?

They kinda suck anyway. Unless you buy lots of them, there is no good reason to buy them instead of say, tanks.
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Old June 30th, 2008, 08:30 PM
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o.k so they are no good then,time to take out the trash

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Default Re: Whats in a bunker?

Added some in a couple of OOBs, more to reflect actual usage than usefulness. Some countries tend to dig in their old tanks a lot to create defensive lines, but I agree with Marcello that they tend to suck a lot in modern warfare.
Think about Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, these countries still use a lot of heavy fortifications like, as I said, stripped-down tank guns placed in concrete or stone structures with large storage and living quarters.
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i was thinking of making some sinarios so i mit use them there
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Default Re: Whats in a bunker?

"stripped-down tank guns placed in concrete or stone structures"

Generally speaking when tank guns from older tanks are used the turret is retained.
The last swiss fortifications of this type consisted of surplus Centurion turrets placed inside a casemate to give them overhead cover. As I said bunkers armed with large caliber direct fire guns (like the various SPMBT gun bunkers), either fixed or field, seem to be rare in reality.
There are some dedicated fortress guns for indirect fire (like the swiss Bison)and shelters for protection against CB fire (like in North Korea).
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"stripped-down tank guns placed in concrete or stone structures"

Generally speaking when tank guns from older tanks are used the turret is retained.
The last swiss fortifications of this type consisted of surplus Centurion turrets placed inside a casemate to give them overhead cover. As I said bunkers armed with large caliber direct fire guns (like the various SPMBT gun bunkers), either fixed or field, seem to be rare in reality.
There are some dedicated fortress guns for indirect fire (like the swiss Bison)and shelters for protection against CB fire (like in North Korea).
so if I use them only use a couple to mimic real life, okay thanks
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Old July 3rd, 2008, 02:47 PM
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Default Re: Whats in a bunker?

"so if I use them only use a couple to mimic real life, okay thanks"

Sorry I did not have the time to explain myself fully. Let's make an example:
OOB 17, unit 198. This is a bunker armed with a 100mm Rapira antitank gun. Here is a picture of the gun
http://svsm.org/gallery/100mm_mt-12/P1020093
In order to put such a thing in a bunker you would have to leave a very large opening for it to enter and leave. And a very large loophole for retaining a meaningful arc of fire.
While I have seen some bunkers built exactly like that they are extremely rare for several good reasons.
Tank turret bunkers are more common, as that was a common way to dispose of older tanks. For example here in Italy many obsolete tanks (Pershing etc) were used in such a fashion to create defensive strongpoint against a Warsaw pact ofensive. The soviets recycled many of their JS tanks to create strongpoints on the Kuriles and such and so on.
One would need a detailed map of such lines to be sure but I would recon that a couple of them on the typical SPMBT map would be just right.
In general the majority of "modern" bunkers (outside the rare cold war defensive line) would be either simple shelters or machineguns positions at most, built out of precast concrete and/or sandbags and such.
As for general effectiviness the germans seemed to be fond of the their Pantherturm bunkers.
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Default Re: Whats in a bunker?

nice picture, you would have to leave a big opening for it[never thought it was that big].

If tank turrets are more common I might use those more but not too many on the map,would a leopard 1a3 class as an old tank I can make into a tank turret bunker?

"And most bunkers now would be shelter or machine gun positions" So there should be more of them then any other bunker on my field.

If I put infantry inside a shelter bunker will the computer unload them?
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