m10bob
Posts: 8622
Joined: 11/3/2002 From: Dismal Seepage Indiana Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: Joel Billings In the ideal world there would be two Long Tom devices, one used by the Marine Defense battalions and coast gun units (that would be a Naval Gun) and one used by the Army Corps artillery and FA Groups (that would be an Army Weapon). This would account for the doctrine and training of the different units. Will Pry bother doing this, I can't say. Is it really that big of a deal? In going over this with Mike I found only 2 units with Long Tom's that probably should have Army Weapons that are in the game prior to 1944 (both available at start). Oleg obviously ran into one of them at Lunga. Since there are many more Marine coast defense units in the game, until two Long Tom devices are created, it's better to accept the extra 2 CD capable units then it is to elminate the capability from the Marine units. The Marines were not the only ones to use the 155 for coast defense,and here is a site that shows they did not even require special modification,nor "mounts".. http://www.pacificwrecks.com/douglas/gun.html another site with several examples of the same gun being used in different locations as a coast defense weapon,some maintaining the wheeled-mount,(with a picture of same). Obviously this is not a case of "a single incident" being used by "fanboys" to justify the 155 as a CD weapon.Notice the major complainant in this thread continually refers to the game weapon as a FA,(or similar),but this DUAL-PURPOSE gun is never referred to as such.Yeah,I gotta believe it's sour grapes over trying to assault an armed beach with too little prep and too many transports..(BTW,I'm no "fanboy",just big on accurate history..) http://209.165.152.119/panama/155.html
< Message edited by m10bob -- 6/11/2005 8:36:54 AM >
_____________________________
|