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| July 2008 General Naga |
| News Update #3 Coordination and Defence Hello and welcome to another update of Traction Wars. This month we have a small update showing three statics from our upcoming airfield map. The advanced tactics and air control (A-TAC) building was used to co-ordinate the squadron(s) both on the ground and in the air. Designed as a set of prefabricated moulds the building took a surprisingly short time to construct, allowing airfields to rapidly expand from small field bases to fully operational aerodromes. This ability to quickly construct buildings such as this proved to be vital in a war with such a fluid front-line. Maintaining the chain of command at the front would have proved to be very difficult without this technology.    These locations tended to be at the entrances to secure areas and the sides of roads. Mounting a solitary steam machinegun, these pillboxes were quick to build and would withstand small arms fire, they were however isolated positions and were used more as an outpost for early warning of enemy advances rather than as a serious defensive position.  and finally for this update we have a pillbox. Armed with 5 conventional machine guns this position was designed to be one of a chain of holding points for any enemy infantry advance. With wide arcs of fire covering most of 300o it proved to be a difficult obstacle to overcome. The use of conventional machine guns in this design was controversial. It was however eventually agreed that the use of conventional machine guns added a sufficient advantage in stopping power and independence from a regular supply of fuel for boilers (the weakness with steam machineguns) to be worth the expenditure in ammunition.    |
