Armoured trains

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MarkSheppard said:
Crossposted from another forum I'm a member of

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Thanks for the information Mark - much appreciated. Do these sources give any information on armour ratings?


Thanks

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Repaint of the Type II in 3 colours for blazejos and the Tatra drasine.

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Sorry not Polish though.

Slot 346
Fahrkarte in die Heimat - A train ticket home.

Featuring a Soviet attack on a German train at the wars end. (yes again)

A bit better playtested and costed out but not perfect.

Conserve your Pz IV pursuit car shots for worth while targets.

The H-39 carrier gets 3 shots each of main gun and mg - to be "honest", you should use these before unloading.

If possible I would like feedback on the accuracy of the train unit values. The over all feel of the units etc.

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An article for the Total Art of War but has generally useful information.
Soviet Armoured Trains

And another one for the Soviets but with drawings... If you salivate when thinking about British Independant tanks or Soviet T-35s then look at these monsters.

Armored Trains

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This last site with a rusian armoured trains was wery good. Don't forget too about railway artilery that shuld be nice see that monster guns in game as a off map artilery and as a not firing object especialy for special misions

Rusians Railroad guns
http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/g...y/railroad.htm
http://rkkaww2.armchairgeneral.com/w..._railroad.html
http://tanxheaven.com/nic/TM-3-12rai...ailroadgun.htm
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/rail...0guns%201.html

Germans guns

Dora the bigest http://palpatine.chez-alice.fr/Page13/page13.htm

another
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp_K5
http://www.one35th.com/model/k5/k5_gh-others.htm
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/rail...s%20index.html


French
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/rail...s%20index.html

Italian
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/rail...s%20index.html

British
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/rail...s%20index.html

United States
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/rail...s%20index.html

Czechoslovakian
http://www.aopt91.dsl.pipex.com/rail...s%20index.html


History of origin railways guns
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_gun
http://southern.railfan.net/ties/1961/61-12/art.html

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My enforced vacation is over tomorrow - I have a new contract - so I won't be doing as much work on the trains .

My current priority is to complete the German heavy and light independant scout train icons and draw up a list of values to put in the scenario editor.

Next up would be to work more on the Polish trains hopefully getting enough icons done to make up one prototypical train. The TK Renault draisines look particularily interesting.

Further down the line are Russian train units.

Much further down the line - railway guns In deference to my heritage I will probably begin with British ones.

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Here's the latest release. I chose to finish off the German Scout cars because they were the easiest to do. In the zip are the Icons, the TO&E and the stats to plug into the scenario editor. Note to designers: The light trains were used in the Balkans. A train of 10 icons had an actual length of 2 hexes - adjust your maps and setup accordingly.

I put the stats in a text list rather than a spread sheet to keep file size down and to ensure readability regardless of OS or installed applications.

Next up Polish Armoured Train 11 "Danuta" and Train 15 "Smierc". Many cars were re-used by the Germans so more bang for the buck.

ReadMe text:
In this package:
Icon0110.shp - includes all icons up to July 09 2006
UNITS.txt - Armoured Train units expressed in terms of SPWW2 units.
German_Armoured_Trains_Stats.txt - a text list of the scen edit values for the German Light and Heavy Scout Car units.

EDIT:
In German armoured trains stats under the PzKw 38-T Carrier car, 0=Passengers are riders else APC: should read 1

Edit:
I misunderstood how heat armour works - Add the value in the HEAT column to the regular armour column and use this sum for the HEAT value.