Caterpillar D7 Armoured bulldozer DDay

[bluewillow]

Completed last week a Caterpillar D7 Armoured Bulldozer DDay Royal Engineers, decals are a mix with some hand painting also. A Raventhorpe model with PSC crewman.








Cheers
Matt

[carlos marighela]

Very nice work Matt!

[fred]

Nice work

I take it the numbers on the blade are to do with landing craft loading details? I’ve never noticed these on photos - but perhaps they don’t often show the front of the dozer.

[HerbertTarkel]

Cool and unusual model!

In the modern world, the IDF armoured version is something I’ve always wanted to tackle.

[CapnJim]

Well done.  My next-door neighbor, when I was a kid, was a navy SeaBee, and drove an armored bulldozer in the first wave at Okinawa...

[fred]

I know they were armoured, but I didn’t think armoured enough for first wave of an amphibious landing! Clearly enough protection to allow your neighbour to survive.

I wonder as a defender against a seaborne invasion, whether you would regard a bulldozer as a threat, or just some oddity and ignore it for the shooty stuff arrayed against you? In wargames engineer type units always seem to attract a disproportionate amount of fire.

[carlos marighela]

I suspect that if an apparently bullet impervious bulldozer, with blade deployed, was steadily advancing on your earthern bunker or slit trench, you'd probably have one or two thoughts about the continued nature of your mortality.

[bluewillow]

Nice work

I take it the numbers on the blade are to do with landing craft loading details? I’ve never noticed these on photos - but perhaps they don’t often show the front of the dozer.

Yes, I have only seen it on one dozer, they were chalked on so the first turn of earth they would be gone

[sultanbev]

In wargames engineer type units always seem to attract a disproportionate amount of fire.

Do your rules have target priority rules? Engineers on foot would count as infantry, engineer tanks count as well, tanks - this is what we use

All units being assaulted fire at their assaulters.

These are optional rules, but we argue that you should use them, to prevent long range flank shots of opportunity when other enemy are closer and more dangerous.

Where there is a choice of several equal priorities, the nearest must be engaged.

All units must fire at:
a) enemy within 50m that is facing them.

Tanks and assault guns must fire at:
a) tanks
b) anti-tank guns & AAA used as ATG
c) APCs
d) infantry
e) towed artillery

Infantry must fire at:
a) infantry
b) anti-tank guns & AAA used as ATG
c) APCs,
d) towed artillery
e) tanks

Anti-tank guns must fire at:
a) tanks
b) APCs
c) recce
d) infantry
e) other guns

OP directed artillery can choose any target.

Artillery Batteries on table must fire at:
   a) other artillery
   b) infantry
   c) tanks
   d) any others

Artillery assigned to an CHQ follow the fire priority of the CHQ type.

Recce must fire at
a) tanks (this is deliberate to stop/reduce people using recce tanks as suicide drive-by shooters)
b) recce
c) infantry
d) APCs
e) guns

AA guns must fire at
a) aircraft
b) helicopters
c) AFVs
d) towed guns
e) infantry

Mark