A little something for a Baku scenario?

[Hammers]

New ESLO Oil rig, pretty cool, but a bit stiff @ 32€.



A couple of those would look really good on a Baku style BoB game.

[swiftnick]

Unfortunately the wells in Baku don't look as good as that.

[Ataman]

Unfortunately the wells in Baku don't look as good as that.

Indeed, they did not. The image below should give you an idea of how they *roughly* looked like.



Realistically though, the oil derrick you posted should be fine unless you're playing with someone who is incredibly anal about historical accuracy.

[Hammers]

Realistically though, the oil derrick you posted should be fine unless you're playing with someone who is incredibly anal about historical accuracy.

Surely none of us is acquainted which such bores. 

[Mark Plant]

I think that posting a picture after the 1904 revolution in Baku isn't quite as useful as it might be.

I am someone anal about historical accuracy, and that rig looks sweet to me. (Apparently they were mostly wood, with asbestos and tin sheeting, but I only know that now because I looked it up.)



Incidentally there were other places in 1920 Russia with wells too, which I did not know about until recently. So they rig might have other uses.

[Stecal]

Actually in 1913 it looks quite organized (The German designed part that is...):




This still looks like a little piece of hell though:


Wiki actually a quite nice article on Baku.  There was even a very early 1898 film!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Azerbaijan

[Hammers]

I think that posting a picture after the 1904 revolution in Baku isn't quite as useful as it might be.

I am someone anal about historical accuracy, and that rig looks sweet to me. (Apparently they were mostly wood, with asbestos and tin sheeting, but I only know that now because I looked it up.)



Incidentally there were other places in 1920 Russia with wells too, which I did not know about until recently. So they rig might have other uses.

Now that I looked into it I find no evidence of 'nodding donkeys', although they seem to be contemporary and the Baku oilfields were technologically quite up to date according to some online sources. Perhaps bottom hole pressure was still sufficient to get the oil to squirt up the drill tower the classical way.

[swiftnick]

Sorry chaps I wasn't trying to be anal or a bore just jokingly commenting that the land wells in Baku are in a terrible state. They are however nodding donkeys.
Mike

[Emir of Askaristan]

They seem to have deteriorated somewhat from the time of that German photo too !!
It was over10yrs ago I was there tho'.
A wonderfuily chaotic frustration of a place as I recall, and a great setting for all kinds of BoB capers.
 
 

[Ignatieff]

Me likey!