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Author Topic: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon  (Read 10359 times)

Offline Mr. Jape

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #30 on: April 30, 2012, 01:22:49 PM »
Love the Bazalgette.

On the Faraday Mk. II, what is the huge cylinder jutting out the front?

Offline Colonel O Truth

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #31 on: April 30, 2012, 06:25:43 PM »
Are you referring to the boiler?

It's a boiler.
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Offline Mr. Jape

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #32 on: April 30, 2012, 06:37:49 PM »
Are you referring to the boiler?

It's a boiler.


Aaah I suddenly see the locomotive element in your design... of a steamtank. I can be blind at times.

Thank you for clearing that up!

Offline Chairface

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #33 on: May 02, 2012, 07:16:30 PM »
Are you referring to the boiler?

It's a boiler.

 lol lol lol

Offline FramFramson

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #34 on: May 02, 2012, 10:25:53 PM »
I just want to know what intrepid member of the army design board decided putting an unarmoured boiler right out front would work out well under fire.   ;D


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Offline XCIV

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #35 on: May 02, 2012, 10:31:09 PM »
Please. This is what happens when you let the Army design a landship.

Navy should have done it.
J

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Offline Steve F

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #36 on: May 03, 2012, 05:48:14 AM »
I just want to know what intrepid member of the army design board decided putting an unarmoured boiler right out front would work out well under fire.   ;D

It's a cunning plan: if the enemy shoot it, they get sprayed with boiling water under pressure!

Offline Colonel O Truth

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #37 on: May 03, 2012, 08:20:20 AM »
Gentlemen.

We are talking about the past. My men have not yet had time to discover the fatal flaw in their design.

Give the poor boys a chance to learn for themselves! They'll figure it out pretty soon...


Or, to put it another way:

I don't care if it works, so long as it looks good! I never win anyway!

Offline The_Beast

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #38 on: May 03, 2012, 02:37:11 PM »
Bazalgette?  Are you taking the piss?   ;)

How sad! I'd heard of his work, the lives he'd saved, and yet I didn't recognize the name!

Noble name for a noble beast!

Gentlemen.

We are talking about the past. My men have not yet had time to discover the fatal flaw in their design.

Give the poor boys a chance to learn for themselves! They'll figure it out pretty soon...


Or, to put it another way:

I don't care if it works, so long as it looks good! I never win anyway!

I tend not to expect armor on every device around; I would, however, assume the front of the boiler is fortified, no matter how many rivets you count.  :D

Anyway, no one expects an enemy to be able to close with the fearsome Faraday!

As for if it 'works', if you're playing GASLIGHT, and roll start and sustain in the manner of our own Herr Rupe, no worries about it moving close enough to be in harm's way.  lol

Lovely. Just lovely.

Doug

Offline Steve F

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #39 on: May 03, 2012, 03:20:26 PM »
How sad! I'd heard of his work, the lives he'd saved, and yet I didn't recognize the name!

A descendant of his set up a TV production company which, among other things, created the Big Brother format.  It was noted at the time that one Bazalgette took the sewage out of your house, while the other poured it back in.

Offline Colonel O Truth

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #40 on: May 19, 2012, 08:14:34 PM »
Those Bazalgettes, huh? Crazy!

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #41 on: May 20, 2012, 08:47:04 PM »
Amazing builds! All of them!  :o
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Offline Colonel O Truth

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #42 on: May 21, 2012, 06:19:50 AM »
Thanks, Dr. The Viking... and all of you.

Here's the finished deal...



Had to do it. Sorry!

In the summer of 1867, the renowned engineer, poet, cricket captain and pig wrestler, Sir Rupert Wombly-Paddinton IV unveiled to Her Majesty's War Office his newest and most terrifying creations, the 'Lord Thomson' and 'Sir Percival' - two steam-driven tanks of the most advanced and up-to-the-minute design. Each was armed with a compact and deadly turret-mounted Mark II Faraday Cannon and twin side-mounted anti-infantry flux projectors. Each had iron tracks that would enable them to steam across the most difficult of terrain in pursuit of Her Majesty's foes. But most devious of all, each bore a hideous, grimacing face that would strike fear into the hearts of even the most savage heathens Her Majesty's forces might ever encounter...



More on my blog...

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Hope you can forgive me! I promise I'll be finishing some more sensible(ish) machines very soon!

All the Best!


Offline Old Goat

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #43 on: May 21, 2012, 07:24:55 AM »
Just brilliant.

Offline Diakon

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Re: New Steam Tank with Mark II Faraday Cannon
« Reply #44 on: May 26, 2012, 02:08:50 PM »
 :o Unreal. Love them lots.

 

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