Re: [GZG] Subject: Re: What are the pitfalls of standardised forces?

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y all,

Assault guns came about because;

1) Cost - far cheaper than a tank.
2) Manufacture - quicker and easier to build that a turret and no fiddly

turret rings to have to mill.
3) Gun Size - you can mount a far bigger gun on the same chassis (see
below)
4) Reuse of old hulls - an old tank that is obsolete can make an 
effective Assault gun. Take the German Panzer II from WWII. Obsolete by 
1940 being only able to mounted a 20mm gun, by 1944 it is being remade 
into the Hertzer assault gun mounting a pretty good 75mm. A similar 
story with the Panzer III and IV.

They are also smaller than a tank have better frontal armour for the 
same weight (leaving out the Jagtiger).

Gotta remember that the gun can still swivel but no where near as much 
as a tank.

Tony.

Adrian1 wrote:
> That looks disturbingly like something out of WH40K.
> I never got the point of assault guns.  If a guns main purpose is to 
> fire at rapidly moving targets then this is possibly the worst ever
design.
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