Re: Why I hate artillery [TANKS]

[JOHN PITTELLI <jplily-at-yahoo.com>]

Grant, That heat put a serious whupass on me.

John"gotta start desert training"Pittelli

--- Grant Mahalek <gmahalek-at-shaw.ca> wrote:

> John,
> 
> John "Tme for my nap" Pitelli???  Must have been a
> fun, tiring day with all 
> the paint flying around.
> 
> Thanks for the great report of the days events.
> 
> Grant "Crawling ever closer to completion..."
> Mahalek
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "JOHN PITTELLI" <jplily-at-yahoo.com>
> To: "tank club" <tanks-at-rctankcombat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 5:38 PM
> Subject: Why I hate artillery [TANKS]
> 
> 
> >  To sum it up, it's very deadly. Especially when
> it
> > is declared indestructible , and your buddys
> seemed to
> > be plagued by all manner of gremlins.
> >
> > Battle 1. I made the big mistake of choosing the
> > Tiger for my side. Frank made the mistake of
> laughing
> > at the Panzer, which died on the way to the
> staring
> > area. Turned out the battery must have a severe
> > problem. After replacing the battery, the Panzer
> IV,
> > stalwart workhorse that she is performed fine. It
> was
> > then that the gremlins attacked. Frank's
> newfangled
> > transmitter kept would not allow his servos to
> return
> > to center. So basically, no rotate , elevate tough
> day
> > at the battlefield. Later the T-34, also on my
> team,
> > decided to strip out a set screw on the main
> drive, so
> > , not much power to move about. Our only savioing
> > grace was Tyng the Merciless on the Navarone gun.
> > Pounded the opposition and kept the enemy supply
> > vehicle from performing it's assigned task.
> >    Of course the enemy vehicles seemed tpo be
> fine.
> > Paul trundled and clacked his way everywhere,
> Will's
> > SU was a pain and the Hetzer, well drove me crazy.
> It
> > seems Joe finally figured out that, flat rear
> idlers,
> > rather than rounded rear idlers, will keep him
> from
> > throwing track. No mercy kills today.
> >
> > Battle 2 The dreaded coin flip pitted Paul,myself,
> > Frank and Will versus ,Joe, Marty on the Panther,
> and
> > Chris. They also had both pieces of artillery to
> even
> > it up. That will never happen again, please Mr.
> > Gamekeeper, no mas, no mas. Things started well
> for us
> > and then went to oblivion. Will's SU, which of
> course
> > worked well in battle 1 had gun problems. The
> Tiger
> > gremlins reappeared in Frank's main drive wheel,
> > sheared a retaining pin. So it was just the KV and
> the
> > Mark IV against Joe, Chris,Marty, the Panther
> finally
> > died eventually, and the two artys. Needless to
> say,
> > DOOM.
> >
> > Bright spots, long range gunnery, we had normal
> > terrain today, was working very well. Nailed the
> Goer
> > at least 3 times from  over 50 feet away, much to
> the
> > amazement of Mike, a friend of Joe's who was
> driving
> > at the time. It also scored on the T-34 and I
> think 2
> > solo kills on the Panther from the same ranges. I
> > think that Tyng the Merciless scored all but 2 or
> 3 of
> > the hits on my vehicle in this battle. Yeah we
> need to
> > figure out how to build in some down time for
> those
> > boys.
> >
> > All in all it was a great day. Rick brought out
> his
> > Leopard for us to view, LOOKS MARVELOUS. Not sure
> how
> > he will shoehorn in the gun, I think his Leopard
> is
> > lower to the ground than the Hetzer. But it should
> be
> > ready for the fall event.So, everyone keep
> building
> > and maybe we'll see you on the field someday.
> >
> >
> > John" Time for my nap" Pittelli
> >
> >
> >
> >
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