You're a German officer in 1917. Suddenly, there's a flash, and the American line is replaced by the Killdozer. How do you take it out with WWI technology?
You're a German officer in 1917. Suddenly, there's a flash, and the American line is replaced by the Killdozer.
Grenades.
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I detrack it with frontline artillery
its dead in its track after a single close hit and don't care about it anymore, because the overpressure from the howitzer shells and the "shitty" protection will have probably vaporized the driver
Wait for it to get stuck.
Feds mad
Literally climb this contraption and shoot him in the face. What a Black person he was
you do realize he was literally sealed in right? even after he offed himself it took hours for the cops to punch through the armor and confirm his death
One artillery hit from even a shitty gun and he's either penned or detracked. Same goes for a couple grenades or a satchel charge in the right places
The cops didn't have a battery of sixty 3" quick-fire rifles, and couldn't just toss a half-dozen potato-mashers at him.
>The cops didn't have a battery of sixty 3" quick-fire rifles, and couldn't just toss a half-dozen potato-mashers at him.
and none of that would allow them to "just climb on top and shoot him in the face".
did you even read the thread?
Gas him, he's not reachable by bullets but the thing isn't airtight.
this
Would be a boon for them, simply because all americans on the front are now missing.
Just treating it like any other tank and liberally applying artillery should suffice.
I use chlorine gas.
Make fun of the person inside for being a whiny israelite who’s butthurt that he wasn’t able to extort his neighbors into buying his property for 20x what he paid for it just to build a shed on their own property. He’ll eventually kill himself.
Pathetic
Anon it was hard to deal with because they wouldn't treat it as a military threat. It was good against small arms, not real military force. It had effectively zero distance offensive power, even by the standards of late 1800s armies let alone WW1. Holy shit are you a fricking moron.
This. Mobile dozerbunker is gonna do okay against cops and construction equipment. But real anti tank weapons, artillery, the ability to not give a shit about what you destroy around it as you destroy it, other real tanks, and flammenwarfers are going to frick that dozer up really fast.
>flammenwarfers are going to frick that dozer up really fast.
Why do you think that?
Because fire is really hot. It destroys machines that rely on oxygen to operate and the flamethrowers were already meant to get into the nooks and crannies of bunkers to flush people out why wouldnt it work on some home made bullshit?
the Killdozer was much better sealed and protected than tanks of the era, was the standard response to those "use a flamethrower"?
Artillery was readily available and more than capable of pasting any tank. WWII bombardment density was epic and the terrain alone could stick a modern dozer. Men and horses drowned in WWII mud.
>A ww1 flamethrower is a great counter to it!
>Why?
>What, you don't think artillery would kill it?
Yeah of course artillery would kill it, of course it could get stuck somewhere, but that's not what we were talking about.
No, but that's because the tank is unlikely to get close enough before shooting you to bits, and flamethrowers weren't ll that common weapons to have lying around. They rarely used their trench knives against aircraft either, but doesn't mean pilots were immune to sharp edges.
Flamethrower.
It gets bogged down in mud after a few feet, then I wait to hear the muffled gunshot from within.
>It gets bogged down in mud after a few feet
This. Ain't no way that thing is crossing a trench.
Wouldn't even reach the trench. The Killdozer was 31% shorter, 22% narrower, and almost twice as heavy as a Mark IV.
anti tank rifles would pen, wasnt most of the armor concrete or something moronic like that?
Hardened steel follower by concrete..Barret rifle didn't pen the steel even.
I send him an offer of a house in bavaria, a german wife, and all you can eat life time supply of burgers and beer.
now i have a killdozer which i use the pave a way to paris and win the war.
gas or a flametrower
WW1 soldiers would be much better equipped to deal with it than the cops were.
Roll up a howitzer and shoot it with high caliber HE, the welds will break apart and plates will fly everywhere. Even if they don't the guy is now basically jelly.
Krupp 7.7cm Field gun firing HE over direct sights.
Even fixed-line MG08 fire would probably damage enough hydraulics to cause it to stop.
Killdozer was just commercial steel plate not RHA.
>Killdozer was just commercial steel plate not RHA.
Realistically you're not going to penetrate ten inches of concrete between two half inch steel plates with anything other than a direct hit from heavy artillery, and the Hydraulics were armored as well. Though obviously getting a mobility kill by damaging a track is substantially easier than trying to punch through it's armor.
Also "commercial steel" is not a power level. High Abrasion Resistance steel is a common "commercial steel" and is superior to RHA in ballistic resistance.
You can also just wait for the thing to run out of fuel for that matter. This is trench war no man's land in WW1, there is nothing but mud and destruction for miles and miles. There is nothing for the killdozer to do. It's not even very fast, and only has a few small arms inside. Everyone can just like, walk out of the way if they need to, or drive up armored vehicles and block it in, or throw a few grenades at the trackers. This is WW1 not 1812, WW1 tanks were obviously primitive but they existed and would do the job vs killdozer.
penetration isn't needed with a big enough HE you just need to slap it hard enough to spall the inner plate.
What this latest war needs is Polygonal forts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygonal_fort
The only way this would be interesting and a challenge is if Germany wanted to preserve it, which would actually be very reasonable. I was one of the anons saying "just hit it with arty or a WW1 tank" but I think the best way would be the anons who said to use toxic gas or convince him to kill himself.
In our era, killdozer was kinda neat as a DIY but obviously there was absolutely nothing the slightest bit interesting about it otherwise. However, in WW1-era, examining and reverse engineering the engine alone, as well as various allows used, electronics, and so on would yield unironically quite valuable insights. Nothing completely utterly game changing by itself, it's not a fighter aircraft or something, but absolutely worth going to some trouble to try to capture as intact as possible and take apart carefully.
We know that from a modern perspective, but from the outside to a German commander looking at it over 100m away through field binoculars, it's just a weird yellow Schneider wearing a concrete hat
>We know that from a modern perspective, but from the outside to a German commander looking at it over 100m away through field binoculars, it's just a weird yellow Schneider wearing a concrete hat
Nah, that thing would look very unique on the WW1 battlefield. And it's not like all sides weren't actively trying to copy and reverse engineer each other anyway, it was an era of much more differences in tech and dev paths and far more opacity and slower information travel.
Also everyone else fricking vanishing by magic into thin air would be somewhat suspicious.
I mean it's basically an A7V with a front loader.
That's not going to do anything.
flamethrower asphyxiation
top attack ATGM
Artillery, duh
Excavate a deep hole, camouflage it and get the moron driving it to barrel straight into it.
Chlorine gas.
Looks incredibly vulnerable to artillery.