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[tryrar]

Well, "reload" in this case means put a new 20-pound tube on a tripod. A horseman might carry a couple.

Yeah, "replace" might be the better verb to use

[Andres]

You forgot to tell us if we've made advances in the sky.

[QuakeIV]

No he covered that, he said things are starting to go our way.  (glory to arstotzka)

[10ebbor10]

Question : As they stole our aluminum industry, does that mean they need to utilize a revision to actually utilize it without incurring additional cost due to metric requirement?

[Happerry]

Time for an updated index! A little belated, granted, but here at last.

1910 Battle Report
1911 Battle Phase
1912 Battle Report
1913 Battle Phase
1914 Battle Report
1915 Battle Report
1916 Battle Report
1917 Battle Report
1918 Battle Report
1919 Battle Report
1920 Battle Report
1921 Battle Report
1922 Battle Report

[Andres]

What's the situation with their Mountain trains? Have our planes been able to take them out now that they have better ammo and the enemy planes are getting thinned by our flak?

[10ebbor10]

Apparently not.

[Happerry]

Apparently not.

We have cars carrying anti air machine guns, which kill your puny fighters.

[Ukrainian Ranger]

when did you revise your trains to have that?

[10ebbor10]

We're firing at the railroads. You don't have enough cars nor planes to save those entirely.

And a massive train, loaded with ore, coming down the mountain at full speed, is not easy to stop.

[Sensei]

We're firing at the railroads. You don't have enough cars nor planes to save those entirely.

And a massive train, loaded with ore, coming down the mountain at full speed, is not easy to stop.

Your 20mm rounds are ineffective at destroying rails, because they cannot accurately hit a railroad track. Sure, you might ruin some sections of rail but nothing a maintenance crew can't replace in a few hours' work. It'll take bombs or artillery, or infantry, be that reliable at cutting off rail access.

[Andres]

We're firing at the railroads. You don't have enough cars nor planes to save those entirely.

And a massive train, loaded with ore, coming down the mountain at full speed, is not easy to stop.

Your 20mm rounds are ineffective at destroying rails, because they cannot accurately hit a railroad track. Sure, you might ruin some sections of rail but nothing a maintenance crew can't replace in a few hours' work. It'll take bombs or artillery, or infantry, be that reliable at cutting off rail access.

WWI pilots used to literally throw mortar and artillery shells out of the cockpit for bombing runs. Couldn't our guys do the exact same thing?

[10ebbor10]

We're firing at the railroads. You don't have enough cars nor planes to save those entirely.

And a massive train, loaded with ore, coming down the mountain at full speed, is not easy to stop.

Your 20mm rounds are ineffective at destroying rails, because they cannot accurately hit a railroad track. Sure, you might ruin some sections of rail but nothing a maintenance crew can't replace in a few hours' work. It'll take bombs or artillery, or infantry, be that reliable at cutting off rail access.

The idea is that rather than attacking a train head on, you damage the rails in front of it. Since you're outside the effective range of his anti-air, he can't do anything to stop it.

Meanwhile, a fully loaded train can take several kilometers to stop (going to be worse in the mountains) so it will drive over the ruined track, derail and destroy the entire railroad.

[Taricus]

I'm actually surprised the recoilless gun helped in the mountains so much.

Though in regards to the bombing of railways, I thought we did that last turn, or did that just not go through?

[10ebbor10]

Your bombers were being shot out of the sky by our overwhelming airforce.