Creating Your Own Everything Mk. V

[Taihei Tengoku]

An infantry company based around squadless infantry platoons and thirty grenade launchers

[Korva]

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This better or should i make it darker?

Looks good to me.

but why the long face D:

[Rhodesialund]

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This better or should i make it darker?

Looks good to me.

but why the long face D:

Well he was caught horsing around by his CO.

[EsToVnIa]

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This better or should i make it darker?

Looks good to me.

but why the long face D:

his face is the same as all the other flamscale heads :<

[Gallia-]

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This better or should i make it darker?

Looks good to me.

but why the long face D:

Flamscale heads are exaggerated because Flam lives in a country where people haven't grown in 100 years so they all have horse faces.

The original Flamscale was an impression of H.P. Lovecraft anyway.

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An infantry company based around squadless infantry platoons and thirty grenade launchers

>not just like 40 guys in PITMAN suits

[Taihei Tengoku]

Each of the five maneuver teams has two GM-94, pitman will become pit-quadruple amputee when he is hit by 43mm HEDP from multiple directions

[Gallia-]

>squishy flesh thing

fiberglass > electrolyte solution ):

e: also >not xm307

[Husseinarti]

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panzerkelin r kool

[Gallia-]

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panzerkelin r kool

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/88751629/
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[Husseinarti]

panzerkelin r kool

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/88751629/
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid= ... 8040&hl=en

http://www.strategycore.co.uk/site/assets/files/1097/silentstorm_wallpaper_robot_1024_uk.jpg

water-cooled vickers > dumb .22 plink gun

[Celritannia]

Finally pleased with the Directing officer ranks



I should think the visual problems have been removed now.

[Gallia-]

where is Director Director?

[Celritannia]

where is Director Director?

Sadly Director Director is not directing enough to be a Director rank.

[New Visegrad]

everyone's favourite Leopard variant is back
Still needs tracks, weathering, and gradient shading, and I'll probably do a "field rig" variant with blankets etc as well, but the basic shading has definitely really started to pull it together.

[Western Weyard]

everyone's favourite Leopard variant is back
Still needs tracks, weathering, and gradient shading, and I'll probably do a "field rig" variant with blankets etc as well, but the basic shading has definitely really started to pull it together.

Me like!
But... Why the searchlight? (I assume the box on top of the mantlet is a searchlight)

[New Visegrad]

everyone's favourite Leopard variant is back
Still needs tracks, weathering, and gradient shading, and I'll probably do a "field rig" variant with blankets etc as well, but the basic shading has definitely really started to pull it together.

Me like!
But... Why the searchlight? (I assume the box on top of the mantlet is a searchlight)

Many real Leo variants had a spotlight/IR illuminator (including the one I traced, eheh) since night vision gear at the time was not great. While it's no longer necessary for the tank's own benefit, thanks to advances in NV technology, the Leopard 1*'s role as a handout to irregular militias makes the spotlight useful for supporting infantry who are unlikely have NV goggles of their own.

[Western Weyard]

Many real Leo variants had a spotlight/IR illuminator (including the one I traced, eheh) since night vision gear at the time was not great. While it's no longer necessary for the tank's own benefit, thanks to advances in NV technology, the Leopard 1*'s role as a handout to irregular militias makes the spotlight useful for supporting infantry who are unlikely have NV goggles of their own.

Ah, okay.
Since I did my own not-Leopard not too long ago, I was somewhat confused to see one of those babys on a rather modern Leo 1.

[Purpelia]

The world needs a Leopard 1 with AMX-13-105 turret.

[Gallia-]

Me like!
But... Why the searchlight? (I assume the box on top of the mantlet is a searchlight)

Many real Leo variants had a spotlight/IR illuminator (including the one I traced, eheh) since night vision gear at the time was not great. While it's no longer necessary for the tank's own benefit, thanks to advances in NV technology, the Leopard 1*'s role as a handout to irregular militias makes the spotlight useful for supporting infantry who are unlikely have NV goggles of their own.

Flares exist.

[New Visegrad]

Many real Leo variants had a spotlight/IR illuminator (including the one I traced, eheh) since night vision gear at the time was not great. While it's no longer necessary for the tank's own benefit, thanks to advances in NV technology, the Leopard 1*'s role as a handout to irregular militias makes the spotlight useful for supporting infantry who are unlikely have NV goggles of their own.

Flares exist.

Wow, I had no idea! Thanks for that wonderful insight, you've changed my entire view of the world in general and night fighting in particular!

[Gallia-]

Flares exist.

Wow, I had no idea! Thanks for that wonderful insight, you've changed my entire view of the world in general and night fighting in particular!

Searchlights weren't common for obvious reasons when tank-mounted flares were available, see Strv 103 and Ikv 91, there are other examples. Their primary use was always intended to be a really bad infrared sight with a range of maybe 800 yards or something, which is why all searchlights were infrared lamps first. Not that it matters, since the range of a searchlight on most every tank except the beefiest of all lights is less than the range of a recoilless rifle.

If you lack the infrared intensification gear necessary to use the searchlight (you should, these searchlights were old 30 years ago, not to say today) you shouldn't have it. It's much better to just have a passive thermal sight, which literally every tank on Earth except the shittiest of all have nowadays, and moreso in whatever "futuristic" setting you have in mind for this thing. Infantry can make do with flares and tracer fire from your tank, and it's far more important that the tank is able to see what it's shooting at rather than the infantry anyway.

If you really want some kind of weird/outmoded infantry support thing on your tank, give it 71mm flare launchers like Ikv 91, a tank whose entire job was to follow infantrymen around and provide weird services to them like illumination of targets. You'll not only have greater range (a visible light searchlight like XSW-30-U or whatever the M48s had in Vietnam would see out to like a kilometer and change, you need beefier lights to get to respectable distances of 2-3 km) but you'll be less obvious a target to whatever isn't looking directly at you.

This is a bit like having a supersonic fighter jet with a pair of .50 caliber machine guns in the wings TBH. Or a collimating gun sight instead of a HUD/HMD. It's needlessly anachronistic and frankly useless when modern alternatives exist.

If you really need to spot targets for infantry for whatever reason (the reverse of what actually happens!), a medium machine gun with a FLIR and tracers is far more useful and less obvious. All mediocre tanks have this.

[New Visegrad]

Wow, I had no idea! Thanks for that wonderful insight, you've changed my entire view of the world in general and night fighting in particular!

Searchlights weren't common for obvious reasons when tank-mounted flares were available, see Strv 103 and Ikv 91, there are other examples. Their primary use was always intended to be a really bad infrared sight with a range of maybe 800 yards or something, which is why all searchlights were infrared lamps first. Not that it matters, since the range of a searchlight on most every tank except the beefiest of all lights is less than the range of a recoilless rifle.

If you lack the infrared intensification gear necessary to use the searchlight (you should, these searchlights were old 30 years ago, not to say today) you shouldn't have it. It's much better to just have a passive thermal sight, which literally every tank on Earth except the shittiest of all have nowadays, and moreso in whatever "futuristic" setting you have in mind for this thing. Infantry can make do with flares and tracer fire from your tank, and it's far more important that the tank is able to see what it's shooting at rather than the infantry anyway.

If you really want some kind of weird/outmoded infantry support thing on your tank, give it 71mm flare launchers like Ikv 91, a tank whose entire job was to follow infantrymen around and provide weird services to them like illumination of targets. You'll not only have greater range (a visible light searchlight like XSW-30-U or whatever the M48s had in Vietnam would see out to like a kilometer and change, you need beefier lights to get to respectable distances of 2-3 km) but you'll be less obvious a target to whatever isn't looking directly at you.

This is a bit like having a supersonic fighter jet with a pair of .50 caliber machine guns in the wings TBH. Or a collimating gun sight instead of a HUD/HMD. It's needlessly anachronistic and frankly useless when modern alternatives exist.

If you really need to spot targets for infantry for whatever reason (the reverse of what actually happens!), a medium machine gun with a FLIR and tracers is far more useful and less obvious. All mediocre tanks have this.

It's literally a cheap tank designed specifically to hand out to peshmerga and militias in the Middle East to fight ISIS with in 2019. Hardly a futuristic setting, and a searchlight is perfectly adequate for a vehicle that will essentially be functioning as a mobile pillbox at relatively short range.
In other words, you're overthinking it.

Here's a fun fact for you: the extra MG mount on the rear roof of the turret is designed so another spotlight can be fitted to it if desired.

Hell, since you mention it, I think I'll do a Canal Defence variant with some kind of Batsignal thing instead of a main gun.

[Western Weyard]

Hell, since you mention it, I think I'll do a Canal Defence variant with some kind of Batsignal thing instead of a main gun.

Yes, please.

[Gallia-]

Searchlights weren't common for obvious reasons when tank-mounted flares were available, see Strv 103 and Ikv 91, there are other examples. Their primary use was always intended to be a really bad infrared sight with a range of maybe 800 yards or something, which is why all searchlights were infrared lamps first. Not that it matters, since the range of a searchlight on most every tank except the beefiest of all lights is less than the range of a recoilless rifle.

If you lack the infrared intensification gear necessary to use the searchlight (you should, these searchlights were old 30 years ago, not to say today) you shouldn't have it. It's much better to just have a passive thermal sight, which literally every tank on Earth except the shittiest of all have nowadays, and moreso in whatever "futuristic" setting you have in mind for this thing. Infantry can make do with flares and tracer fire from your tank, and it's far more important that the tank is able to see what it's shooting at rather than the infantry anyway.

If you really want some kind of weird/outmoded infantry support thing on your tank, give it 71mm flare launchers like Ikv 91, a tank whose entire job was to follow infantrymen around and provide weird services to them like illumination of targets. You'll not only have greater range (a visible light searchlight like XSW-30-U or whatever the M48s had in Vietnam would see out to like a kilometer and change, you need beefier lights to get to respectable distances of 2-3 km) but you'll be less obvious a target to whatever isn't looking directly at you.

This is a bit like having a supersonic fighter jet with a pair of .50 caliber machine guns in the wings TBH. Or a collimating gun sight instead of a HUD/HMD. It's needlessly anachronistic and frankly useless when modern alternatives exist.

If you really need to spot targets for infantry for whatever reason (the reverse of what actually happens!), a medium machine gun with a FLIR and tracers is far more useful and less obvious. All mediocre tanks have this.

It's literally a cheap tank designed specifically

These are mutually exclusive.

The only "cheap tank" is one that has been built.

Not that Peshmerga are competent enough to use tanks anyway.

[New Visegrad]

It's literally a cheap tank designed specifically

These are mutually exclusive.

The only "cheap tank" is one that has been built.

Not that Peshmerga are competent enough to use tanks anyway.

I'm going to stop responding to you now since you apparently have difficulty framing criticism in a civil or helpful manner.