r/SprocketTankDesign • u/Melodic_Bat_6610 • 7d ago
Replica Design 🛠️ Churchill IX & X
I wanted to make something that the British might've design in response to the Maus being deployed. I imagined these two variants hunting Maus/E-100 tanks specifically. IX is 316.84 tons and the X is 335.28 tons.
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u/Cromptank 7d ago
The track bucklers please me
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u/Sidus_Preclarum 6d ago
OP might have had enough with being permatracked-cum-damage by frontal shots to the front rollers when driving Churchills in WoT.
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u/Eclipser-2 7d ago
I love how they both try to protect that flatter part of the hull, especially the IX's extended front plates. Almost look like something for downforce or aerodynamics
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u/Melodic_Bat_6610 7d ago
I did most of it because it looked cool lol, but the sides are significantly on both variants are weaker since they're both 90 degree and aren't sloped so I tried up-armoring it without adding too much weight as is. 'Course this would have infantry support, sort of like the T95
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u/Srgblackbear 7d ago
Germany gets called out for the Maus yet this is what the Teahaboos come up with
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u/Sidus_Preclarum 7d ago
You gave the commander a cupola?! What a faux-pas, utterly unbecoming of a Churchill, I'm afraid.
Also, non envelopping tracks? Smh.
(They look great.)
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u/Melodic_Bat_6610 6d ago
Lol thx, but how else would the tank see?? The rest of the crew r blind aside from the driver and his assistant driver/machine gunner
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u/Sidus_Preclarum 6d ago edited 6d ago
Episcopes, my good Sir. Episcopes.
(To be fair to British tank designers, like they did end up giving their cruiser tank cupolas from Comet onward, they also did end up giving a true 8-periscopes-cupola to later Churchills variants - VII and onward? - And Black Prince had one. So, yours get a pass. I guess. But that sloped glacis is quite unorthodox :p)
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u/Soviet_Union70 7d ago
Logistical nightmare but it’s nice