Thread:Cyprum xecuii/@comment-6191693-20130314043738/@comment-6191693-20130317190706

1. Nobody gives him any flak for being Blunt.

2. Petrol and diesel engines are allowed, but they were very inefficient and largely impractical at this time.

3. Not entirely true. This is just the first "practical" steam plane, but there were several questionable ones before it. The only thing that made gasoline more practical at the time was weight (boiler systems are heavy). Many very early ones were electric, too, but battery life limited range, which is why gasline won favor. In our world, though, issues such as these can be tweaked to suit our needs without messing with history and physics too much. Just takes a little creativity.

Using engines running on gasoline, diesel, or kerosine for ground vehicles is perfectly OK, but you need to understand the limitations these types of power would have had at the time. It doesn't take a lot of torque to turn an airplane propeller and it doesn't take much more to push a car that weighs less than 1,000 pound. Look at the old VW Beetle -- it weighed about the same as these early motorcars and only had about fifty-some horsepower. It was by no means a fast car, but it was adequate. Moving a tank that weighs tons, though, is another story.

Maybe find some middle-ground between the development of your tanks and/or push back their release 5-10 years or so. I mean, you're making a technological jump equivalent of going from the Model T to the Mustang in the span of a decade and a half.

4. My issue was not so much with the six-wheel thing (it's pushing it, but I can live with it), it was with what looks like a modern (1930s-40s) suspension setup above them. These early tanks barely had suspensions. They jittered about like pedal cars on hard surfaces and had comparatively poor grip (compared to later tanks) on soft ones.

5. Suspension and angled armor. Those are my complaints. Unless you mentioned specifically these anachronisms, there's not really anything to change besides an OOC description and possibly the picture (though we can "pretend not to see" certain things if you need us to).