Purpelia wrote:Crookfur wrote:Nah purp what you really need for 30s awesomeness is a pair of 75mm/40mm convertable guns! Like the various 25/75, 44/60,37/76 and 37/47/81mm guns.
basically a medium long 75mm that can accept a barrel insert for a high pressure 40mm.
Thus you cna have apair of 75mms or a pair 40mms and for the ultra lulz make the turret big enough to house the 40mm inserts so they cna be isntalled on the fly!
What's the point of that? If my crew has to dismount and engineer a new gun in they might as well just drive closer for the HE gun to work. Or hell just use that long 75mm.Yeah thats liekly far more lulz than you want so an over under 40/75 like some of the bofors combos and one Neubaufahrzeug layouts of the would work reasonably well and likely be easier to install and sight in than a side by side (no need to harmonise and elevation differences wouldn't be an issue as both tubes would need different rnage scales on the sights anyway).
That was my original idea actually. I would take the turret of the Neubaufahrzeug and install it on a Panzer IV hull. If you look at various images and blueprints it becomes obvious that the Neubaufahrzeug hull is just a Panzer IV stretched out to fit the smaller turrets. Or maybe the IV is a shortened NBF. The turrets are of almost identical size so they should be theoretically interchangeable.
The rest is just fluff. Like making the turret and hull a bit sloped and stuff.
Really it was just an idea for 1930s nuttiness flavouring as a the end of the day you are mounting 2 reasonably sized 75mm guns... basically you cna have 1 of each calibre so you can do both tank killing and he exploding or you can have 2 of one type if the expected conditions indicate an over abundance of one type of target (yes 2 40mm guns won't make a tank deader and the rest of the twin gun issues apply). The biggest lulz would be to keep the inserts under armour with racks and assembly that allows them to be slid in and out of the gun whilst in action...
It is really just a uber silly idea but very fitting for the 1930s so much so that Crookfur now definetly has at least one 20/30s universal medium tank that has a single combo gun instead of the usual entry from the 6pdr development tree.