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pupecki

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Need help identifying tanks
« on: 02 July 2018, 21:32:27 »
I was wondering if anyone knew what these presumably heavy tanks are? My best guess with a Patton but I'm not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Re: Need help identifying tanks
« Reply #1 on: 02 July 2018, 21:33:40 »
Strikers and Schreks
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Re: Need help identifying tanks
« Reply #2 on: 02 July 2018, 21:34:30 »
Particularly, they're the Succession Wars era model of Striker.  The 3058 upgrade looks just a little bit different.
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Re: Need help identifying tanks
« Reply #3 on: 02 July 2018, 21:38:43 »
And maybe, just maybe, a Vedette in the foreground.
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Re: Need help identifying tanks
« Reply #4 on: 02 July 2018, 21:40:52 »
Quote from: Scotty on 02 July 2018, 21:34:30
Particularly, they're the Succession Wars era model of Striker.  The 3058 upgrade looks just a little bit different.

Like it didn't do anything between 3026 and 3058 but eat cake.  ;D
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Re: Need help identifying tanks
« Reply #5 on: 03 July 2018, 07:01:20 »
I was wondering if they might be Schreks last night but I couldn’t tell if they actually had three barrels or if that was a muzzle brake. It also threw me off because there appears to be an SRM 6 on the side of the turret.
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Re: Need help identifying tanks
« Reply #6 on: 03 July 2018, 08:23:07 »
Quote from: pupecki on 03 July 2018, 07:01:20
I was wondering if they might be Schreks last night but I couldn’t tell if they actually had three barrels or if that was a muzzle brake. It also threw me off because there appears to be an SRM 6 on the side of the turret.

The artwork for the Schrek also has that setup- I've always presumed it's smoke grenade launchers, like you see on real-world MBTs- with no use in-game, of course.

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Re: Need help identifying tanks
« Reply #7 on: 03 July 2018, 09:02:43 »
The tank in the foreground is not a Vedette- they have that weird turret set up- IMO figure its a Scorpion . . .

 . . . which also falls into line since this looks like its using HBS graphics.
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Re: Need help identifying tanks
« Reply #8 on: 03 July 2018, 09:09:10 »
The two big tanks look very much like Schreks to me too. The tripple barrel is a little hard to make out, but the front glacis is Schrek all the way.

The smaller tank in the foreground is much harder to identify. Scorpion seems like as good a guess as any, although I guess it could also be a Vedette with most of the strange double tier hull hidden below the bottom of the image.
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Re: Need help identifying tanks
« Reply #9 on: 03 July 2018, 09:18:20 »
The smaller tanks in the foreground are indeed scorpions. I’m on mobile right now but I’ll post the full picture for reference when I get home tonight.
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Re: Need help identifying tanks
« Reply #10 on: 03 July 2018, 14:06:18 »
What's the source of that picture?
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Re: Need help identifying tanks
« Reply #11 on: 03 July 2018, 14:41:01 »
One of the computer games, methinks. Yes, the Shreck barrels are easy to merge.
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Re: Need help identifying tanks
« Reply #12 on: 03 July 2018, 14:44:48 »
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Re: Need help identifying tanks
« Reply #13 on: 03 July 2018, 15:31:52 »
Just got home and was about to link the picture buy NeonKnight beat me too it
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Re: Need help identifying tanks
« Reply #14 on: 09 July 2018, 23:23:05 »
Schreks, Strikers, & Scorpions, oh my.


That isn't an SRM6,  if you look at the original 3026 drawing its actually on the side (rear) of the turret & not sticking out facing front.

My guess is some sort of heatsink port or something for the PPC's.

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/File:Schrek_PPC.jpg

http://ironwindmetals.com/store/popup_image.php?pID=6458&type=jpg&osCsid=94ct7eq6qpul3a4aosu17f2ts2
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