Re: [GZG] New to the list, and 2 questions: lift/jump infantry rules, and 15mm alien 'natives'

>On Jan 11, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Richard Bell wrote:
>
>>  That flank got rolled up in a spectacular way, because the
>>  argentines had not realised that the ground pressure of a scorpion
>>  reconnaissance tank was less than half that of an infantryman, ...
>
>Back in my arty days we used to catch flak from city leadership types 
>for our howitzers "ripping up the roads."  M-109s are BIG and HEAVY 
>so driving them on the road MUST rip up the asphalt right?  Wrong.
>
>Turns out that your average non-combat loaded M-109 had lower ground 
>pressure than your average VW Beatle and once we had an engineer 
>speak to them about it, complete with the basic math behind it, the 
>argument was settled.
>
>Damo

Does it make any difference whether the treads are bare steel or 
rubber cleated, or is it entirely down to the ground pressure issue 
(re the road damage question, not the swamp flotation!)? I seem to 
recall that British Chieftains had rubber pads on each track link 
(from the Tamiya 1/25 model, mainly, because you had to glue the 
sodding things on individually...!), which I always assumed was to 
reduce road damage on exercise driving - though I guess it may well 
reduce track wear as well.

Jon (GZG)

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