[Richard_H]

Ships - Part 2

Class 41 – Landing Barge

Poland 752 has FC 100 (AA Radar), all others 0. This is not for an AA Gun, but for a weapon called ‘60mm OTO HVMS’, which is available here in 1/62. IIRC the main user of this weapon is Chile, which doesn’t have it until 1/84. That a Warpac nation would have it in 1/62 doesn’t stack up.

Poland 700 and Iraq 250 are amphibious – should they be in an Amphibian class?

Of those units (all in slot 247) called ‘Barge’:- Sweden has Crew 4, all others have 5; ARVN is the only armed version.

LCM (8) Mk.1 – Belgium 235 has different stats from all the others.
Israel 369 has Size 12, Netherlands 241 has 8, Greece 250 has 7, all others 9. The same units have Crew 5, all others 7. The same units have Swim Speeds 7-8, all others have 10.
Israel 369 has Lift Capacity 248, Netherlands 241 has 250, Greece 250 has 234, Chile 253 has 240, others have 254.

LCM Mk.6 – France 434 & Iran 184 have Size 12; USMC 191, Turkey 252 & Spain 231 Size 6, all others 9.
Israel 368, France 434, USA 184, USMC 191, Turkey 252 and Spain 231 have Crew 4, others have 7.
USMC 191 has Swim Speed 6, all others have 8.
USA 184 has Lift Capacity 175, others have 180 or 240.
France 434 has steel armour 5/3/3/6/4/4/0, HEAT armour 6/4/4/7/5/5/0, all others have 4/4/4/4/4/4/0, 6/6/6/6/6/6/0.

LCVP – remarkably consistent, which leads me to believe that anomalies need pointing up.
USA 254 has Size 12, all others 8.
USA 254 has Crew 4, Netherlands 240 & W.Germany 355 have 5, all others 7.
USA 254 has Lift Capacity 136, Netherlands 240 has 254, W.Germany 355 has 250, all others 236.

LST – similar to LCVP.
Russia 204 has Size 14, Ethiopia 251 has 12, UN 240 has 11, all others 10.
Ethiopia 251 has Crew 8, all others 12. It also has Swim Speed 10, all others 8; Steel HF 6 (all others 4) and HEAT Top 4 (most others 3).
UN 240 has HEAT Top 4, Peru 255 has 5 see above).

T-4 – Syria 250 has Size 12, all others 10. It also has armour 2/2/2/2/2/2/0, no HEAT (others have 4/4/4/4/4/4/3, 6/6/6/6/6/6/5.
Poland 184 & Syria 250 have Crew 4, others 8. They also have RoF 6, all others 9 (same Weapon 1).
Libya 250 has Swim Speed 8, all others 6.
Romania 184 & Bulgaria 184 have Lift Capacity 250, all others 230.
Poland 184 has HEAT Top 3, others 5.

I’m not going for any of the other named classes because there is so much variation in them, and I don’t have my reference works to hand.

Richard H