Hey there all,
My latest wargaming project is to wargame a fictional conflict in Europe, the
result of a soviet invasion of Germany and then France during the early 1980s
(After Milan enters service in the UK, but pre SA80).
While I hope there will be much discussion of the other facets of this, but
for now, I would love opinions on the Vehicle statistics for Russian and
British army vehicles for starters:
FV432 (with and without GPMG) Ferret
BMP (whichever model/s in service at this date)
I have done some small amount of research into this period, however I am a
25 year old sci-fi wargamer making his first tentative steps into
historical gaming, so there is a great deal that I do not know!
Your thoughts kindly received or post on The Gentleman's Wargame
Parlourhttp://xsorbit30.com/users5/wargamesroom/index.php?topic=1355.0
> At 11:42 PM +0000 12/30/06, Richard Kirke wrote:
Given that I own one of these.... The armor is good enough to stop.50 ball
from the front but NOT AP. 16mm and a steep slope to the front. The sides and
rear are thinner 12mm or so but will protect against ball from 7.62 NATO
(7.62x39 should find it tough). Sensors are minimal (mostly mk 1 Eyeball). By
then you're looking at a GPMG and the Mk2 modls have enough stowage for 10
cans of 7.62 belt. Plus more stowage for Sterling SMG's for the crew. A tripod
can also be carried for dismounted use of the GPMG, there's even a 'plug' on
the left engine deck to fit the socket on the tripod on.
I'd say armor 1 all around. High Mobility wheeled. Size 1 (2 man crew and it's
smaller than the footprint on Most US SUVs save for Jeeps). 3
man crew for the Mk1 ferret. I've seen Mk1/2
ferrets with 2 GPMG's mounted and extra stowage
for extra kit, but the Mk1s and Mk1/2s have less
ammo stowage since they put jump seats in place of the stowage bins for the
Oh, for artillery spotting (one of the uses of the Ferret) there are
provisions on the larkspur radio kit for up to 600 feet D10 wire to be
attached to the intercom/radio harness allowing
an observer on top of a hill say to talk over a telephone handset to the other
crewmember via the intercom or to the wireless set (A or B set) allowing the
terrain feature to mask the wireless signal and vehicle but still allow use of
the vehicle radio "remotely" via the R box (this allows a retransmit function
a well so a ferret can be used to act as a signal booster between two sets to
extend radio range. The spool of D10 is carried on the turret on a quick
detach
bracket. It's a send/receive function only, there
HAS to be someone at the vehicle to tune the
wireless set. You'd model this by allowing 1-2
crew of a 2 vehicle patrol to move from the parked vehicles up to the top of a
hill and use wireless comms from the vehicles. They could drop the D10 spool
and easily bug out with just belt order web gear and two sterlings allowing
for fast movement. No need to hump a heavier set up and you get some useful
transmitter power out of
the VHF C42/B45 set (15-20 watts 10 miles on RT,
.5 watts in low power mode). The second set, (B
set) is lower power B47/B48 is for communicating
with manpack sets the infantry used or with other vehicles in the troop.
For the time there's a smaller manpack set, the WS A40 which is equivalent tot
he Canadian
C/PRC-26
See
http://home.hccnet.nl/l.meulstee/larkspur/larkspur1.html#SEC5
The FV432 should be able to run 3 sets on the A/B/C channel setup they
had.