The year is 1925, and due to the threat of your nation's neighbouring powers, top brass has issued specification 82-F - the design and construction of a multi turreted tank with 2 to 5 turrets to serve one of the following roles - that of a reconnaissance tank, cavalry tank, and infantry tank.
Reconnaissance role - the tank must have a minimum speed of 15 miles per hour, and must have one machine gun at least.
Cavalry role - the tank must have a minimum speed of 20 miles per hour, with preferably more than this, 40 gallons of fuel, and at least one cannonand one machine gun.
Infantry role - the tank must have at least one machine gun and cannon, but only needs a minimum speed of 6 miles per hour.
each tank will be judged on the following categories and based on its role.
Speed for role - /15
Armament for role - /15
Utility ( size, layout, efficiency, ) - /15
Quirks - /15
CHALLENGE ENDS 1ST OF MAY
total score is out of 60, with 15 upvotes for first place, 10 for second, and 5 for 3rd.
All entries get an upvote as well :)
good luck to all!
Specifications
Spotlights
- asteroidbook345 2.6 years ago
- winterro 2.6 years ago
- airlinerbuilder 2.6 years ago
- Chich2000 2.6 years ago
- Icey21 2.6 years ago
- Kaiser7 2.6 years ago
- Panzerwaifu69 2.6 years ago
- WINGSIRONAVIATION 2.6 years ago
- DARZAVIATION 2.6 years ago
General Characteristics
- Successors 1 airplane(s) +35 bonus
- Created On Android
- Wingspan 49.2ft (15.0m)
- Length 4.4ft (1.3m)
- Height 32.8ft (10.0m)
- Empty Weight 1,893lbs (858kg)
- Loaded Weight 1,893lbs (858kg)
Performance
- Wing Loading 2,814.7lbs/ft2 (13,742.5kg/m2)
- Wing Area 0.7ft2 (0.1m2)
- Drag Points 148836
Parts
- Number of Parts 22
- Control Surfaces 0
- Performance Cost 52
EDIT - I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO JUDGE THE CHALLENGE AS I AM ABROAD FROM HOME VISITING FAMILY - SORRY IF RESULTS ARE LATE, ILL GET THEM OUT WHEN I CAN
Challenge has ended - good luck to participants!
Announcement: challenge ends first of may, so if you havent finished your tanks, make sure you get them done! In addition, if you cant have it as a post successor, please link them below and o will judge them individually and post results below
@AnHNWhiteCornet
It can be fictional or a replica, do whatever you wish - if anyone has comments on the judging and ideas of the challenge, please let me know so I can make more and better ones in the future!
If you have any questions you can leave them here
Here’s my entry, it didn’t auto credit for some reason though @Simplememes
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/xTpyS1/Saki-Liden-R25w-Reconnaissance-Tank
I couldn't finish it, and the auto credit didn't work
https://www.simpleplanes.com/a/329yH8/KV6
I guess that means that people don’t have enough time or everyone is making fantastic tanks that’ll blow anything I have out of the water @Lake
Wow i cant believe no one still started the challenge....
@Lake you can but as I am on mobile I cant judge the tanks driving and handling so if you could post / provide the speed that would work - I should still be able to overlook the rest of build
@Simplememes Can I put the tracks 2 Mod?
@Simplememes Ah I see
@Panzerwaifu69 special features that improve the tank, be it art, kill markings, extra details, just anything that makes it special
Umm...what is quirks?
@asteroidbook345 yeah
@Rymanx03 should you enter I wish you luck
@Obtheplanedestroyer nice
@AnHNWhiteCornet you can, but I will judge the latest one
I may not be a usual tank builder, but I think I like this. Time to see what I can do, who knows what'll happen?
I think it's KV-VI time
Can I submit multiple builds?
@winterro So infantry tanks are usually lighter vehicles like T-26s that are used for infantry support and may not even have a proper cannon, they’re just there to help cross fortified areas and have a little armor to protect against small arms fire. Cavalry tanks are medium tanks that are meant to work on their own ahead of infantry to break through fortified positions directly (or in some cases fight other tanks). Reconnaissance is like the M8 greyhound or M22 locust that are meant primarily for scouting and reporting intel back to the friendly base.
@Simplememes yeah lmao
really interesting, i'll join if i will find the time to actually build my entry
@winterro these are mostly based on british interwar period ideas except for reconnisance wich is a bit like a light tank for scouting
Cavalry tanks are designed as fast moving linebreakers to assault positions in force for infantry to occupy (think the crusaders 1 through 6), whereas infantry tanks (think Matilda 2) are designed to be heavily armed and specifically support infantry,as shown by the low required speed