>>5654013>I'll go out on a limb and say that the said sky boat doesn't seat an entire battalionWell, nobody except the Sky Queen has ever seen one, but yes, their passenger space is quite limited, even without the temptation to bring all your toys along.
>>5654045>I don't suppose I could rankle some specs for the m/32B out of you in the wrap up? Rough engine performance, gearing, armour distribution, length/weight/height, that kind of thing.Well, I'm hardly an engineer, so ideally at some point in the future I'd want to go through things and make it all properly match up (this would include an interior by necessity, something I'm loathe to do for its complexity), but roughly speaking with <span class="mu-i">plenty</span> of allowance for wiggle room. After all, this is...quite an old model. I'll definitely want to revisit it with the knowledge and experience I've gained over the years. Some character model sheets have been updated three to four times, after all, but the tanks? Not once.
Length/Width/Height- In a rare bit of foresight, I actually made a meter stick to go with the model, so I can speak for the model's measurements to a more certain degree than normal.
Engine- This is a bit of a tricky one, because I know next to nothing about engines nor their requirements and performance factors. The m/32B-010, aka Richter's tank, has been re-equipped with a significantly more powerful and reliable engine. The normal m/32Bs remain (at least, at the time of the events of the quest) with the same engines as the plain m/32s, which was already not particularly reliable or sufficiently powerful. So while they're not <span class="mu-i">slow</span>, they do have to work rather hard to get up to speed- to the detriment of their mechanical health.
Gears- See above for general knowledge- though the m/32 does have two reverse gears rather than just one. It isn't limited to crawling backwards, relatively.
Average Armor Distribution- It won't be universal, of course, with the lower front plate, turret rim, et cetera being less, but the glacis plate and turret are up-armored from the original m/32, which had about 40mm thick armor, to around 70 millimeters. Only the front aspects had this level of increase in protection, without factoring for balancing the vehicle, so the flanks are only boosted from 20 millimeters to 30, along the turret's flanks to 35.
Shell Caliber- Though the actual business part of the shell is 47mm, there's a lot of power behind that, and there's the factor of it being an armor-piercing high explosive type as well, rather than just a solid shot. As it was developed in response to the protection and durability of a Grossreich "landship" KT-28 Heavy Tank, the penetrative power was not skimped upon, even if the gun hasn't actually ever been fired at its intended target. So a decent baseline would be about 100 millimeters of penetration at 100 meters, somewhat better than the irl Czech 4.7 cm KPÚV vz. 38 it's somewhat based on.
