Re: DS2:What armour rating for large truck mounted medium RAM?

There are large multi-wheeled lightly armored artillery vehicles.  The
South
African G6 (155 mm gun with 18 km and 39 km range and max steel armor of
23 mm)
and Czech Dana 152 (152 mm gun with 18 km and 24 km range and max steel
armor of
12.7 mm) and the Russian 2S23 (120 mm gun/mortar with 8 km range and max
steel
armor of 15 mm).  I would argue that anyone of these current vehicles
justify
class 1 armor (protection from small arms and shell fragments) and the
G6 class
2 armor over the frontal arc (protection from small arms, shell
fragments, and
light autocannons) .  Your artillery vehicle sounds interesting.  Any
chance you
could get some photos up on the web???

IAS

David Tan wrote:

> I am currently painting up my first Artillery unit (off board I
think!). It
> comprises 3 of those large GZG 1/300 trucks (not the semi trailer, but
the
> large one with an flat open tray).  On this I have mounted an
Irregular WWI
> heavy howitzer (not sure what cal. but it's a biggy). Nice big fat
stubby
> looking thing with lost of bits n' pieces, dials, controls all over
it.
> Looks suitably SciFi anyhow.	I just cut off the end of the base to
fit on
> the back of the truck.  Incidently, I could'nt find the product code
in thr
> GZG catl site.  My question is, the truck itself is significantly
larger
> than a lot of my Sig 3 vehicles and therefore I have to class it as a
four.
> What armour rating to use though?  Yes, technically it could be
defined as a
> softskin but I would argue that due to the load it was carrying, some
extra
> plating would have been added here and there.  OTOH, being an open
tray with
> this massive gun on top and exposed, there's the argument that for Art
> attacks the armour would be 0.  With direct fire against it, maybe I
could
> claim a 1 or 2 if people felt sorry for me.  Any advice?
>
> Cheers and thanks
> Dave Tan