Armored Trains in ASL

[footsteps]

The world famous Horseshoe Curve is in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It is a stretch of train tracks shaped like a..... horseshoe!https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_Curve_(Pennsylvania)

That was... lucky.

 

[Actionjick]

That was... lucky.

Yes but if it's hung up incorrectly all the luck runs out!

 

[Ric of The LBC]

Yes but if it's hung up incorrectly all the luck runs out!

Don Cornelius concurs.

 

[Psycho]

Don Cornelius concurs.

 

[Gordon]

So now we're going to ape cheesy movies?

 

[Ric of The LBC]

So now we're going to ape cheesy movies?

Why? Are you getting feta up with these monkeyshines?

 

[Yuri0352]

Can't stand that movie. MP40s with unlimited ammo. How did the Germans ever lose with a weapon like that?

A key factor in their defeat in the war was the apparently constant tendency of their sentries to walk around their posts with weapons shouldered, and their backs to the stealthy allied commandos who would inevitably approach unnoticed from behind to slit their throats.
Of course the final decisive defeat of the Wehrmacht occurred when a handful of Americans rolled all of those fuel barrels down the hill on to the panzers during the final stages of the Battle of the Bulge.

 

[Brave Lion]

I am hoping for a scenario covering the only submarine attack on a train.

USS Barb The Sub That Sank a Train

This is the story of the USS Barb, SS-220, and her skipper, Admiral Eugene 'Lucky' Fluckey, who commanded a mission to destroy a train. Admiral Fluckey received the Medal of Honor and the USS Barb was the only submarine to 'sink a train'. For all his exploits, Admiral Fluckey said he was most...

www.eugeneleeslover.com

It was also the only time armed Americans attacked the Japanese home islands on the ground. The Japanese surrender precluded the full scale invasion of Kyushu and Honshu.

 

[sswann]

submarine attack on a train??
Yes, it is a one turn Prep Fire Phase with zero ROF vs a Moving Target.
Hit or miss = Game Over.

 

[Gordon]

See 1:13 in.

 

[Old Noob]

Using a torpedo on an innocent & unarmored truck? Shameful.

 

[Actionjick]

Using a torpedo on an innocent & unarmored truck? Shameful.

Waste of a perfectly good torpedo. Well maybe not so good a torpedo early on in the war.

 

[Old Noob]

Too true. The Mark XIV torpedo (developed in peacetime) had three major flaws:
1. Ran too deep with live warhead (dummy warhead used in trials)
2. Magnetic exploder too finicky in real conditions {maybe yes, maybe NO}
3. Contact exploder too fragile in combat conditions (90 degree hit very iffy, glancing shot so-so}

 

[Ric of The LBC]

 

[Ric of The LBC]

Armored Trains?

 

[Jazz]

Can't stand that movie. MP40s with unlimited ammo. How did the Germans ever lose with a weapon like that?

Pfffffft! That wasn't anything. Check out Where Eagles Dare. Changing out MP40 clips is only a plot device that happens every 2k rounds or so....and all those handy little trip wire bombs that they had to have another REALLY BIG BAG to carry all of them.

The music wuz stirring, and some classy mountain flying footage on the opening credits.

Three (four?) words: Blondes with automatic weapons....

 

[Gordon]

Three (four?) words: Blondes with automatic weapons....

Wait a minute. Neither Richard Burton nor Clint Eastwood were blonde in that movie ...

 

[Jazz]

Wait a minute. Neither Richard Burton nor Clint Eastwood were blonde in that movie ...

OK 5 words.....Blonde babes with automatic weapons.....jeesh, some people.....

 

[Jazz]

I hope that the OP doesn't get in a grand funk about his thread getting hijicked.

Even the best of threads go to seed eventually. Best to come to terms with it and just move on.

 

[Old Noob]

At least they kept close to the book's plot. Some movies 'based' on an author's book stray very far from the
original story.