RE: Vehicle classes

I don't try to do much backward fitting of vehicles.

I take a size 3 and equate that to about the size of an Abrams.

I make size 1 be a 2-4 man vehicle (large
quadrunner/dunebuggy/jeep/Pickup
Truck/Battletech Savanamaster/ with a HUMMV at about the max before
going to
size 2.

I have really big stuff at size 5 (Catepiller 797
http://www.cat.com/cgi-bin/equipment_proddetail_overview.cgi?type=overvi
ew&i
d=797&family=Off+Highway+Trucks&subfamily=Off+Highway&model=&subfamilyid
=307
&rgnid=NACD&headerimageid=C015478, Large Cargo Planes, ICBM crawlers,
etc.)

Biger than size 5 would be ships, dropships, largest cargo planes (C5A),
railroad transported guns, Ogres, etc.

I have most military vehicles at size 2-3 with some at 4 (Future Wars
Andromeda http://www.geohex.com/vifwt16.htm and Antron
http://www.geohex.com/vifwt09.htm and GZG Phalanx
http://www.geohex.com/dsm104.htm).

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Brian Bell
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Gill [mailto:rmgill@mindspring.com]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 10:36
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Vehicle classes

At 11:01 AM +0100 4/8/02, Tony Francis wrote:
>
>Others which are a bit subjective, depending on your view of size
>classes :
>
>Panzer I (two MGs on a class-1 vehicle)

I'd say a Panzer I is closer to size 2. Not so much based on the foot 
print but the volume too.

>Any very small (ie class-1) tank with a main gun and co-ax MG

Renault FTs could be a class 1, but I'd go up a bit to class 2.

>British A9 cruiser (2-pdr, co-ax MG, two independent turreted MG -
>probably a class-3 vehicle)
>M3 Lee (37mm, 75mm, co-ax MG, turreted MG, bow MG - probably class-3
>possibly -4)
>M8 Greyhound (37mm, co-ax MG, AA HMG - class-1 maybe -2)
>etc.

I pretty much put jeep sized vehicles at class 1. Class 2 fits most 
smaller armored vehicles. A M151 is small. It can carry a single MG 
or if you really want to beef it up, a bit of extra MGs and kit in 
the case of the Fast Attack version of the M151 that one MEU put 
together.

Tanks and Armored cars tend to be taller. A dingo would be a 1, but a 
ferret a 2. I say this based on the Ferret's ability in the Mk2 
version to carry 3 people and its taller form. The Fox is definitely 
a class 2. Luchs I rate as class 3.

Sherman variants I'd put in the class 3 or 4 size, those suckers are 
tall. Greyhound class 2-3. Hard to say. I'd have to walk around the 
real thing a bit more. Saladin's are definitely class 3.

Abrams goes to class 4. M88, I'd say class 4 as well.

When deciding size for a vehicle, I try to look at it's volume for the
basis.

Ryan, collector of 1:1 scale military vehicles.

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