RE: [SGII][WW2] Here we go again.

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>[SMTP:gamers@ameritech.net] wrote:
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>>>>they can and will fire HE projectiles. One 20mm HE
>>>>wont do much, it might hit the wrong side of a small
>>>>tree or fly past, but four such projectiles, fired at
>>>>a rate of about 450 rpm, is bound to cause havoc in a
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>>Even the German single barrel 20mm AA gun of the 1970-1980 time frame 
>>were over
>>1000 rounds per minute. The rates of fire you are talking about are
WWII.
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>Umm, Scott; check the subject header...
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What SGII (Star Grunt II - SciFi) or GZG (Ground Zero Games - maker of 
SciFi figures/rules).
I didn't know that  you were restricting topics to WWII but rather 
discussing the uses of auto
cannons in ground combat as it would apply to a SciFi game. But if you 
want me to add WWII:

The 50 cal was in duel MANUAL mounts on US PT boats where space was 
limited. The
50 cal on the APC (halftrack - WWII) was primarily used as an AA weapon 
due to the fact
that the military use at that time called for the APC to be a combat 
transport and not as direct
fighting vehicle. If you lost the APC's you ended up with poorly 
equipped ground ponders who
couldn't keep up with the armor that they usually were mutually
supporting.
 
With about 14 halftracks per US APC company (equipped with 50 cal and 30

cal machineguns
in as many numbers as they could get) of WWII this allowed fire from 14+

separate sources with
multiple mounts on each vehicle (as needed were put on in the field). 
The duel 50 cal mount was
really not needed on the APC not due to inaccuracy but due to it just 
not being needed (better
two mounts and two gunners).

By the way, for my WWII collection I have in 50 cal single, duel and 
quad towed AA guns and
single (OK APC and jeep), duel, quad and hybrid (duel 50 cal with 1 37mm

cannon) vehicle
mounted AA guns. Then there are the 30cal, 20mm, 40mm and 90mm for the 
US AA. But no
US 120mm AA that is made.

Then there are the German, Russian, British, Japanese, Italians in my 
WWII collection but that's
another story.

Scott Siebold

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