Comments on: The French Are Coming: How G1R Started

By: cedtomcat

cedtomcat — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 03:26:55 +0000

Actually, this tank come from a project for the replacement of the B1 tank. The specification was to have a 47mm in the turret and a 75mm in the hull (like on th B1) but Renault come up with a 75mm in turret (an actually strange one as the gun is not fixed to the turret but it’s the movement of the gun that move the turret)

The 47mm version would have been the AT version and the 75mm the all purpose version (a little like the pzIII / pzIV couple at the begining of the war)

By: Madner Kami

Madner Kami — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 13:41:51 +0000

Exactly. As a matter of fact, french tank design was quite a noticable step ahead of almost everyone else. You wouldn’t know that from general historical bias, as german and soviet tanks get all the praise and french tank development get effectively stopped at 1940 (actually a bit before that, because of a number of problems in the frenchy’s socio-economic order), but if there’s one part of the french army that actually handed the germans their asses over and over again, it was almost always the tank groups. Superior or sufficent armor, superior or sufficient armament superior or sufficent mobility. Had the leadership of France stopped thinking in 1914-1918 patterns of warfare tactics (and were the moral situation of the ground troops in France not FUBAR’d like it was), World War II would have grinded to a halt in 1940, just where it grinded to a halt in 1914.

By: Rocri

Rocri — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 11:32:51 +0000

That comander hatch look like one of Madona’s bra.

By: NaharArkwing_SEA

NaharArkwing_SEA — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 07:45:26 +0000

Its French. Deal with it.

By: Mana Wolvenworks

Mana Wolvenworks — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 03:28:20 +0000

So it’s like an AMX 40 with more armor and same peashooter.

Behold, World’s Largest Peashooter.

By: Mr_Ekshin

Mr_Ekshin — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 02:28:55 +0000

I keep trying to figure out the tracks.

My first thought were that they are multi-pin coupled tracks, but there’s just no advantage to that.

Then looking closely at the third picture, we can see an inside row of teeth – at about close enough for a double complete set.

I believe it’s a complete double set of narrow tracks on each side. This DOES have one advantage. Harder to completely destroy the tracks off one side.

A similar benefit to large trucks that have duel wheels on the back (among a few other benefits).

The game doesn’t treat duel tracks individually (T95), but does (I think) make the tracks much more difficult to destroy.

By: Joachimjagpanzer

Joachimjagpanzer — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 00:01:02 +0000

Also: A lot of times designers still thaught about tanks as breaking through in the WW1 trench warfare, therefore if they were huge (mainly long) they could cross trenches more easily and were therefore more suitable for the situations the designers imagined they would be used in.

By: DolphinWorksGaming

DolphinWorksGaming — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 20:54:41 +0000

Dammit french people! Why do you keep having to build shit like that? ^_^

By: Leedar

Leedar — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 18:28:02 +0000

It seems only Soviet designers kept World of Tanks in mind when designing commander’s hatches on well-armoured turrets. Too bad they forgot about overmatching with the roof thickness (with the exception of Obj. 430 II, T-62A and IS-7).

By: Amos.P

Amos.P — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 18:06:13 +0000

I’m really curious to see how that turret handles in game.