RE: Intervention Video and Lessons Learned [TANKS]

["Steve Tyng" <STyng-at-ACPTrust.com>]

Some new things I learned:

- Everybody is getting a little bit quicker.  Nobody may be as fast as
the Cromwell yet but they can sure spin fast!  It's getting tougher to
take an experienced opponent out one-on-one.  Will Montgomery is
particularly good at the spin defense!

- If it's tough to take a tank out solo it REALLY feels good when you
manage to take a whole team out solo!  In the first ten minutes of the
first battle I think I managed to dispatch the entire Tough Love team
plus their artillery.  It was a fluke and probably will never happen
again.

- A real man wears shorts in R/C Tank Combat!  I guess I'm not a real
man anymore.  After the bloody pounding my legs took this last battle
I'm calling it quits on the shorts - no matter how hot it's going to be.

- It sucks when your teammates call time outs while your in an attack
run.  I had kills on the Hetzer and Tiger invalidated due to these
inconvenient calls.

- Batteries fade with age.  The same batteries that gave me a good one
hours run time last year are only lasting forty minutes this year.

- Bunkers suck.  If you stay hunkered down in one you will DIE!

- R/C Tank Combat is a team sport but when your team is all broken down
in home base, it becomes a blood fest - against you!

- Macro and micro CO2 line apparently suck.  Though my macro line worked
all day, several others where blowing CO2 lines left and right.

- When you hear a CO2 line burst.  GO IN FOR THE KILL!

- Why didn't my macro line burst in the hot temps?  I'm not sure but I
have a anti-siphon in my tank which keeps the liquid CO2 out of the
lines.  Also, when the tank was just sitting waiting for a battle to
start I opened my turret up to keep it cooler in there.

- Reliability is the key for maximum fun in this sport.  It doesn't
matter if you have the fastest tank or the best suspension.  What
matters is if your tank can run and shoot for an hour straight with no
issues.  Paul's first generation KV-1 may be the slowest tank on the
field but he had more time on the field due to his rock solid
reliability.  I think only three tanks didn't have issues all day.
These were the Cromwell, KV-1, and Tiger.



Steve Tyng