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Originally posted by thesmilingassassin
Heh, in the second link "Barbastro" seems like quite a lumbering beast akin to the Char B.

But the Char 1B had two thing that Barbastro monster didn't:

-Armor (and strong armor)

-Guns (The barbastro tank seems it was armed with just a LMG)

You missed on thing it didn't have that the Char did, that nasty port side radiator, at least it has one possitive feature!

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Originally posted by thesmilingassassin
You missed on thing it didn't have that the Char did, that nasty port side radiator, at least it has one possitive feature!

At least the Char had armor inches thick elsewhere...

the barbastro had plates 10mm thick...at the strongest point . It didn't need the radiator grill, lol

10mm, good greif!

I remember playing WW2 online when it first came out. Players on the German side who were not even well versed in WW2 armour quickly discovered the "sweet spot" on the Char. That said if two Chars stood off in the middle of a well defended city street with their radiators facing the other tank their were quite a nuisance to deal with if you had difficulty getting an 88 into a good firing possition.

The good thing is without a civil war you can acctually have the infrastructure to produce decent tank designs in significant numbers, rather than the historical ad-hoc designs.

Still that Sadurní is still a neat looking little design.