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Rad, wow! Great minds think alike! Holy crap man I never saw what you wrote, honest.

I should like to offer an opinion on the Tiger 1.

It's perffick as it is innit ?

Son of a gun-ner wrote:Well, it looks like Jack has confirmed it then Rad, having two 88's is the cool way to go two minds and all that.

Thanks Jack, shows how little I know about jagd tigers lol.

Mick.

Haha, twin 88mm is cool but a little too unconventional. I still need it to look like a tank.

I do like the idea of 128mm. However, its not the jagdtiger gun. That one is only L55. I want to make it even longer, L61. It only exist in wot game. But its damm cool looking on the "upgraded" jagdtiger and the "defunct" WTE-100. The L61 coupled with autoloader is so deadly that the developers could not balance the tank and decide to remove it. Imagine the game just started and you saw this tank. 1st round hit your tracks, you sitting duck. Remaining rounds in the autoloader finished you off. You only managed to hit it once and still reloading...then game over.

Haha, now i really like it. The new tiger will have autoloader!! I will redesign the turret.

seekaliao wrote:
Haha, twin 88mm is cool but a little too unconventional. I still need it to look like a tank.

IMHO a two barreled tank stills looks like a tank:

Hmm, I think twin 88mm does look pretty cool. I think I can visualise 2 long barrels (probably w/o muzzle brake) from the Tiger 1 turret. But mod to the turret is definitely needed. Make it longer so it will be proportional to the barrel, else barrel will look too big compared to turret.

However, I personally don't see any real benefits of having 2 barrels firing at the same time. Its like if 1 round can destroy a tank, why do you need to fire 2.

I am thinking it will be more of improving rate of fire or changing between type of ammo. Eg, you want HE instead of AP, you don't have to unload the round, just load the other barrel. Then you can fire 2 rounds in quick succession.

What do you think of this reasoning?

I don't like "reason" in fantasy tanks.. more barrels = bigger booms, and the mentioned rocketlauncher shóuld be added. "Bigger booms + rain of death". What's nòt to like.

Buut.. having said that. A "what if" post WW2, or extended WW2-tank should have the biggest caliber main gun technically possible. Armour was already improving at an accellerated pace late '45. Going further in the semi-realistic reasoning, 2 barrels would be double the maintenance, double the load, double the wear on drive-train, as wel as on the loaders etc. If it were a working option -apart from 2 barrel auto-cannons- they'd already have every tank equipped as such.

I wòuld, absolutely, add some kind of rocket launcher, though. Rockets already started to prove their worth with the Nebelwerfer and the russian Katusha's, though the Nebelwerfer had an entirely different purpose, and I am not even talking about the devastation that rocket-equipped Typhoons unleashed on Germany's trains and rail infrastructure.

Just my 2 cents, though.