Re: [GZG] Mine resistant vehicles

Ill have to research this. But it seems like on reflection it'll depend
also on the intensity of the conflict and the distance you are from the
b-echelon or supply vehicles.

In ww2, I don't think a lot of the british armoured cars carried spares.
The idea being if things were hot enough to need spares when you have
runflats ( dunlop trakgrips in this case) the its too hot to stop and
change the tire.

Conversely if you're policing the empire and dealing with irgun or
malayan insurgents, you might see spare tires fitted to various armoured
cars. My humber has  spare tire mount fitted, but I am uncertainif that
is a post war or portugese fit or not. The bracket is quite simple. Post
war the newly designed ferret had a 5th spare. Its bigger brothers, the
saracen and saladin did not. Dingos and daimler acs did not carry
spares. Though postwar daimler acs certainly do appear with spare tires. 

ill have to inquire with wheeled armour collectors and folks like david
fletcher. 

--
Ryan Gill
sent from my treo

-----Original Message-----

From:  "John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@gmail.com>
Subj:  Re: [GZG] Mine resistant vehicles
Date:  Sun May 11, 2008 7:29 pm
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To:  gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com> wrote:

>  Though it wasn't something I originally had in mind, both the Paladin
>  and the Phalanx WOULD be pretty good mine-resistant designs - you'd
>  probably lose a wheel to a large enough charge, but if you assume
>  they can keep driving on 5 of the 6 (as I believe the Saladin and
>  Saracen could way back, and I presume most of today's 6-wheelers can
>  too)

Yes, yes they can.  :)

However, what you don't see as often "in-theater" as in publicity
shots of the vehicles is the externally-mounted spare tires.  They are
flammable, and most things that take out the tire also damage the
vehicle enough to require more than just a spare tire.

John
-- 
"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and again. We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani

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