"NI Tank for FoW" Topic

NI Tank

In the early stages of Barbarossa the Soviets cobbled together a number of 'tanks' based on agricultural tractor chassis. By far the largest number of these were the NI tank used in and around Odessa in Aug/Sept 1941 – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NI_Tank

Apparently 68 were built and had some small success including towing away an entire German artillery battalion !

I have several of these as 15mm models, and I was wondering how I should rate them for FoW scenario games ?

The best analogy I can think of at the moment is the Pz I for armour and movement, but with a variety of weapons (I've found references to HMG, 20mm and 37mm).

Can anyone offer any ideas ?

TIA

Pete

Unless Battlefront releases a model themselvs, you are unlikely to have "official" stats.
I would at least make it "Very Slow", since it was based on a tractor, and probably heavily burdened.
It "could" withstand small arms fire.
I would do what they did with vehicle stats in V1, and make it 1-1-0, Very Slow, and just plug in stats for hull mounted weapons from other comparable tanks.
A ROF other than 1 would be far too generous.

It might give the FT-17 a fair fight.

Reading more closely, it had a traversable turret.
OK, make it "slow traverse" instead of "hull mounted".

"We are the tanks who say…NI!"

Eric

And we want… A shrubbery!!!

An agricultural tractor loaded down with plate armor and weapons shouldn't be rated anywhere near as "good" as a purpose-built tank, even one as flimsy as the Pz. I.

My suggestion is:

(DshK-armed)
Mobility Front Side Top Equipment
Weapon Range ROF AT Firepower

Na Ispug Very Slow 0 0 0 Hull MG,Overloaded,Slow-
Traverse, Limited Vision
DshK MG 16"/40cm 4 4 5+

(with T-26 sub-turret)
Mobility Front Side Top Equipment
Weapon Range ROF AT Firepower

Na Ispug Very Slow 0 0 0 Overloaded, Slow-
Traverse, Limited Vision
Vehicle MG 16"/40cm 3 2 6

(with 37mm mountain gun)
Mobility Front Side Top Equipment
Weapon Range ROF AT Firepower

Na Ispug Very Slow 0 0 0 Overloaded, Slow-
Traverse, Limited Vision
37mm 15R 24"/60cm 2 6 5+

Mobility Front Side Top Equipment
Weapon Range ROF AT Firepower

KhTZ-16 Very Slow 0 0 0 Co-Ax MG, Overloaded,
Slow Traverse, Limited
Vision
37mm obr39 24"/60cm 4 6 4+ Anti-Aircraft

Mobility Front Side Top Equipment
Weapon Range ROF AT Firepower

KhTZ-16 Very Slow 0 0 0 Overloaded, Limited
Vision
45mm obr38 24"/60cm 1 7 4+

I will have you know my FT-17 tanks have put forth heroic efforts and thwarted several German attacks!

That was due to your very skillful use of them.

Thanks John, that's very helpful.

I've done well with FT-17s in afew games too. Strange, but true. And oh so very satisfying. Take that, you nasty Germans! Unless it's games where they've benn used as bunkers on the Mannerheim Line. In which case. Take that, you nasty Russians!

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