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Stonefire
February 24th, 2010, 06:23 PM
I will suggest a small add-on of a unit (to the red/green/blue OOB)
Its the Danish motorcycle NIMBUS mounted with the 20 mm Madsen AT gun.
it was usen againts the Germans when Denmark was overrun in one day April 9'th 1940 and the remaining units was captured by the Germans and propably used in Norway and/or the east front.
This very mobile unit with a punch could be fun to have.
(Actually it was also used as an AA gun but in a different version)
In the AT role it could be fired both from the MC and removed from the MC.)
The photo from this page http://www.milhist.dk/vaaben/systemer/koretojer/nimbus/nimbus_oversigt.htm

Arralen
February 25th, 2010, 01:28 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madsen_20_mm_anti-aircraft_cannon

.. unreliable as it is, there's at least a link to another website with interesting tidbits of information, and pics. And the other wiki pages (german, dansk) 'bout Nimbus seem interesting as well, though I haven't checked thoroughly.

Cross
February 25th, 2010, 03:22 PM
This is an interesting unit Stonefire.

I found two good articles with additional info here:

http://www.chakoten.dk/cgi-bin/fm.cgi?n=591

http://mailer.fsu.edu/~akirk/tanks/denmark/denmark.html



Cross

Stonefire
February 25th, 2010, 04:26 PM
Thanks Cross
I think so - and it is easy to add is as the gun itself are in the game. (in the finnish and greek obat.

A few photos from the last site you metions.

math_villard
March 10th, 2010, 05:04 AM
A old version of the danish oob, I made :

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showthread.php?t=29018&highlight=danish