Foreign military vehicles to add to US units for variety

[Adm.Lee]

An alternate to the SS-Werwolf cache: Someone else already found it, and the not-running Tigers were towed into place as hull-down pillboxes. The guns work, there's a fair amount of ammo, and the turrets can turn, but that's all.

The whole valley could be covered by 88s, and the local militia all outfitted in 1940s uniforms, helmets, StG44's, etc.

[mikeo80]

Originally Posted by Adm.Lee

An alternate to the SS-Werwolf cache: Someone else already found it, and the not-running Tigers were towed into place as hull-down pillboxes. The guns work, there's a fair amount of ammo, and the turrets can turn, but that's all.

The whole valley could be covered by 88s, and the local militia all outfitted in 1940s uniforms, helmets, StG44's, etc.

NASTY!!!!

I LIKE it !!!!!

My $0.02

Mike

[Olefin]

Actually the Soviets had border installations that consisted of old German and Soviet WW tank turrets on top of concrete bunkers.

Also there would be another place you could find old WWII tanks that could be put back into action - there are tank museums in the Soviet Union, Poland, Germany, France and Czechoslovakia- any of those nations, later in the war, may have raided those collections to find any tanks that were still workable - even if it was only the turrets and they dragged the tanks into place to use them as pillboxes.

[Tegyrius]

Originally Posted by Olefin

And its a pretty good piece of equipment as well - dangerous for sure as a vehicle in the hands of opponents and a pretty good vehicle to have if you are a player. And trying to find spare parts for it would be the basis for several scenarios.

Absolutely. It's good enough to be a challenge, but not good enough to be an "I Win" button, and players have to fight smart if they want to get full advantage out of it. I'd much rather see something like that in play than a full-on MBT.

Originally Posted by Adm.Lee

An alternate to the SS-Werwolf cache: Someone else already found it, and the not-running Tigers were towed into place as hull-down pillboxes. The guns work, there's a fair amount of ammo, and the turrets can turn, but that's all.

The whole valley could be covered by 88s, and the local militia all outfitted in 1940s uniforms, helmets, StG44's, etc.

Or they only have two working towed 88s. Everything else is blanks, pyros, painted telephone poles, and other decoys - with larger "firing" signatures than the two real guns. Have fun wasting your ammo shooting up those fake positions!

- C.