Post by deltav on Dec 6, 2014 19:23:33 GMT
Because of the rough, uncertain roads, and the possibility that we may have to walk/climb the last 10 kilometers, the biggest thing we're bringing is a 2B 14 Podnos-style 82mm mortar. On the brighter side, we should have around 240 of them. They're lightweight (42kg each) and break into three man-portable sections. The shells weigh only 3kg each, so our warriors could easily carry one or two with the rest of their load, allowing us to lay down a fairly heavy fire pattern. They have a 4km range, which is plenty in mountainous terrain where the effective artillery range is often less than 2km. Their main function would be minefield clearing, bunker/autoturret destruction, and suppression of enemy return fire.
At one point , I toyed with the idea of having our engineers build a couple of ANFO-drum throwing trebuchets out of local trees just for the symbolic nature of it, but trees are heavy, and trebuchets easy to damage.
At one point , I toyed with the idea of having our engineers build a couple of ANFO-drum throwing trebuchets out of local trees just for the symbolic nature of it, but trees are heavy, and trebuchets easy to damage.
