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Post by yuritch on Nov 17, 2009 21:34:04 GMT 1
I'm making units for the Italian side for Spring: 1944, and I'm kind of stuck with the engineering vehicle. I need some kind of mobile crane, but cannot find anything like that which is both Italian and WW2. Maybe someone knows which crane vehicles (if any) Italian army engineers were using? Did they possibly used foreign-made vehicles or maybe some kind of tracked cranes?
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Post by Jagged Steel on Nov 18, 2009 4:49:37 GMT 1
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Post by yuritch on Nov 18, 2009 21:06:05 GMT 1
Thanks for that link, an interesting resource. But it has nothing resembling a mobile crane
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flak
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Post by flak on Nov 23, 2009 11:47:21 GMT 1
In 1944 there were 2 Italian armies. In the north the Army of the fascist Republic. They were using mainly scraps from the warehouse of former Royal Italian Army. In the south, the 5 Combat Groups, fighting along with Allies in late 1944 were using British uniforms and weapons and a mix of American and British car and trucks. No tanks, since the conditions of armistice did not allow Italians to have it. I remember that when I was in the Army in 1981/82, in my regiment there were still GMC american trucks used as mobile warehouse and workshop for transmission platoon and engineers. There was also an american Diamond T 969 truck as mobile crane and one Diamond T980/T981 as tank carrier. Then, until middle 60ies, it was used, as mobile worksop also the Lancia 3 RO (http://www.esercito.difesa.it/root/equipaggiamenti/mez_sto_ruo.asp#itaac)
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Post by yuritch on Nov 25, 2009 12:26:26 GMT 1
Ok, Lancia 3RO might do. Especially considering I already modeled a 90mm AA gun based on that truck.
As for 2 Italian forces: I'm aware of that. Italians pose a problem from balance standpoint anyway, so we'll pretend there is only 1 Italian faction in 1944 (since the project is mainly multiplayer oriented, that might work). That allows us to use less common Italian vehicles (P40, etc.) that were in fact comparable to other nation's tanks of that era (unlike M14/41, etc.)
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