I totally agree, Roy!
You know what’s funny as hell? The serious—and I mean serious— discussions taking place on some forums and even Facebook about the technical aspects and viability of this thing. Feelings getting hurt, people really getting defensive about it. I have to laugh!
I’m wondering if those 88s were meant for air defense- though considering a ‘tank’ the size of a city block you could probably bomb the thing with B-17s, B-24s, and Lancasters from high altitude…
DM: I think your flying saucer and death ray frankly makes more sense than the Ratt!
Karl: Lol the Ratt isn’t in WoT, it would probably take up a quarter of the map just by itself! The Maus is and it’s funny that while the Germans get crazy paper projects like it the other factions get Cold War hardware. I’d think in real life the Maus wouldn’t last too long against M48s and T-62s. I think you’re right about WoT inspiring some of the oddball stuff though, I think the Soviet SPG you’re building is in there as well as the M103, Conqueror, and a few others.
@Doog — that is really really funny! You gotta wonder if those geniuses have ever even planned a simple home project like replacing floor tiles or a kitchen counter. Right there, you know that you plan for the tools and materials needed for the job. Having 28cm guns with an 11 mile bombardment range to face what? Maybe coastal defense. But that’s it. But the idiocy to make it mobile and then to arm it as if it were going to skirmish other AFVs — mind boggling.
common sense seems to be absent in those debates for sure.
If I remember correctly (feel free to correct me) they were intended to be mobile fortresses. I don’t think there was much tactical value to them. Just a huge giant to park behind a hill and smash things with.
I agree, Roy! And what’s with the flying saucers in the box art?!?
Also, it bears mentioning that these things were never actually even built up to wooden mockups or the like. Just imagination on a piece of paper. Kinda like som of the Pentagon’s more ridiculous “weapons” ideas. (Remember that “Gay gas”?!) And yet here we have model companies producing them as serious proposals. I’m all for imaginative modelling, but at some point I have to choose exactly what I have room for in my display cases!