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Offline Gunbird

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Fool me once....
« on: March 19, 2012, 04:07:03 PM »
KGN can give you the option (if it is in your list) to use dirty tricks. One of them is a Dummy Gun. Ruleswise you put one in your deployment area, and remove it when it is destroyed or if the enemy moves closer then 12 inch. I abhor removing casualties from play, after a heavy battle you end up with an empty battlefield. Mine is filled with dead men, craters and wrecked vehicles, and shows heavily contested areas and tells a story. In this case, if the enemy spots the gun and it is a dummy, this one is put in place.

Seems the Germans did this quite a bit, but they are not very well documented, I've had to make do with barely 6 pictures.

The gun is plasticcard, toothpicks, 2 wheels from a Sgts' Mess rubble pack and a spare muzzle from a 105 Stug I had lying around. Took me a spare hour to build and paint it, so time well spent.




Who is Gunbird? Johan van Ooij, Dutch, Mercenary Gamer, no longer mobile and happy to live life while it lasts >> http://20mmandthensome.blogspot.com/

Offline Weird WWII

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Re: Fool me once....
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2012, 05:17:26 PM »
Looks like a great dummy gun to me!  I'd send a couple HEs down range at that thing just to be sure.

Brian
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Online majorsmith

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Re: Fool me once....
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2012, 10:24:44 AM »
excellent! really like it, nice idea
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Offline stone-cold-lead

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Re: Fool me once....
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2012, 10:37:59 PM »
Neat idea.

 

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