RE: re-draft the prototype rule ?

["Steve Tyng" <stevet-at-stcharlesmd.com>]

Actually the idea has some merit.  With all those wires, you would have to sever a 
bunch of them, all in one area, to take a wheel out.  I bet most shells of the day 
would have flown right through the wheels without doing any significant damage.  I 
doubt the contact fuses of the day would have gone off by hitting an individual 
wire.  And remember, while your trying to cut the wires your being shot at from a 
high armored vantage point.

The large wheels also give you a good sized ground contact patch without the 
complexity of a track system.

Steve


> Subject: RE: re-draft the prototype rule ?
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> All I can say is wow. That Russian tank is the dumbest
> looking thing. One good hit to one of those wheels and it
> would have been a goner.
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> Nick
> Kingston, WA
> Home of the original TLAR Swampcat
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> Melissa Johns
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> Subject: Re: re-draft the prototype rule ?
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> After thinking it over, it seems to me that a tank that made
> it to the prototype, but not production, stage ought to be
> given some kind of consideration.  Really, it only comes down
> to the shape of the model - in one shape, it's a Panzer IV,
> in another shape the exact same hardware (motor, tracks, gun,
> etc) is called a Comet, in yet another shape, the exact same
> hardware is called a M-70 and not allowed.  If you close
> you're eyes, you wouldn't be able to tell the various models
> apart, as they'd have identical performance.  A tank that
> never made it into production wouldn't have any advantage
> over one that did.
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> On the other hand, it does tend to open Pandora's box,
> doesn't it?  Gurps, Mecha, Star Wars, things that walk, ad
> nauseam.  (Why, that would be almost as weird as Tigers
> fighting alongside Comets, or WW I British Mk Vs versus a
> Persian Gulf era M-1 Abrams.)
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> I'm not reaching any conclusions here, just saying the
> suggestion definitely merits discussion.
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> Bill "I wanna build a Tzar Tank" Johns
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> (Tzar Tank:
> http://www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/5pansar/5sido> r/tsartank1.htm )
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> At 11:01 PM 7/20/2004, you wrote:
> >At
> 03:12 PM 7/19/2027, you wrote:
> >>But I think a discussion is needed as to why the prototype rule was
> >>added in the first place.
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> >I seem to recall that it was to keep sci-fi fantasy tanks
> (Star Wars,
> >etc) off the field.
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