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Just for fun, what would you like to see in 'Late War Leviathans': obscure military vehicles of 1944-1945 and what attributes would you give them?

I'd like to see the A39 Tortoise

For me it would be the Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster, it had as a main arment a 800mm gun, two 150mm guns as secondary weapons,and loads of 15mm machine cannons, it weighed 1500 tonnes and had 250mm of armour on the front. Its stuff like this that proves that the all the Germans AFV ideas were mad (but they would be awsome).

Predictable but definitely a Maus. Landkreuzer is a good call too.

Da GeneruL wrote:Its stuff like this that proves that the all the Germans AFV ideas were mad (but they would be awsome).

That's a little unfair as the E series had some pretty good ideas. I'd go with the Maus as I already have one, the 128/75 version by Peter Pig, although trying to stat it up for FoW makes me think it's a little sub par in the gunnery department. I'd also like to see some of the unfinished 38(t) vehicles they were thinking of building such as the hanomag SdKfz 251 replacement built on the 38(t) chassis.

That landkreuzer was insane. Something like 5 times Maus sized? It would look like someone slapped a leman russ on a FoW table.

I've been working on statting up the Maus for Flames of War, here's what I have so far.

Schwere Panzer Platoon: 1 Maus (unique)

Points: Scenario only n/a (400+)

Armour 20/12/2

Turret Gun (128 mm KwK44 L/55) ROF: 2 Range: 48" AT: 15 FP: 2+
Coax Gun (75 mm KwK 44 L/36.5) ROF: 2 Range: 32" AT: 10 FP: 3+
Coax Machinegun

Special: Very Slow tank, Unreliable, Overloaded, Slow Traverse

M38 Wolfhound, the T29 Heavy Tank and the T28 Super Heavy Tank.

Da GeneruL wrote:For me it would be the Landkreuzer P. 1500 Monster, it had as a main arment a 800mm gun, two 150mm guns as secondary weapons,and loads of 15mm machine cannons, it weighed 1500 tonnes and had 250mm of armour on the front. Its stuff like this that proves that the all the Germans AFV ideas were mad (but they would be awsome).

The P.1500 was meant to be a railway gun without the rail, the P.1000 "Ratte" was the "combat" variant armed with two 280 mm, one 128 mm, eight 20 mm Flak38s, two 15 mm MGs and a whopping 360 mm frontal armor.

It's not armor but I think the Rotkappchen would be cool since everyone is getting fancy tanks, might as well throw in a fancy tank killer.