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WW1 Vehicles - WW1 Tank, Armoured Cars, Trucks & Field Guns
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WW1 Vehicles 2026-05-30
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Sweet! I've often thought about doing something like this. I have a question as I don't know the answer, were the armored cars from WWI or are they more 1920's to early 1930's?
Hi Kurt,
Stephen Wroble says this in the original First Eagles download readme file found at the CombatACE site:
A British Rolls Royce, built on a Silver Ghost car chassis and armed with a Vickers Machine Gun in the turret. If you've seen the movie "Lawrence of Arabia," this is the car they used in some of the battle sequences.
A German Ehrhardt, with two Maxim Machine Guns in the turret. These were used mostly on the Eastern Front.
A French Peugeot, with a Hotchkiss Machine Gun in the Turret. Peugeots didn't have turrets until very late in the war, but I thought this looked better than an open truck, and it was easier to build.
An Italian Lancia, with two Fiat-Revelli Machine Guns in the turret. The rails on the front were for ripping up barbed wire.
A Russian Putilov, built on a British Austin truck chassis, with Vickers Machine Guns in two turrets. The steel trough around the gun and the multiple turrets are fairly typical of Russian armored vehicles.
Stephen Wroble says this in the original First Eagles download readme file found at the CombatACE site:
A British Rolls Royce, built on a Silver Ghost car chassis and armed with a Vickers Machine Gun in the turret. If you've seen the movie "Lawrence of Arabia," this is the car they used in some of the battle sequences.
A German Ehrhardt, with two Maxim Machine Guns in the turret. These were used mostly on the Eastern Front.
A French Peugeot, with a Hotchkiss Machine Gun in the Turret. Peugeots didn't have turrets until very late in the war, but I thought this looked better than an open truck, and it was easier to build.
An Italian Lancia, with two Fiat-Revelli Machine Guns in the turret. The rails on the front were for ripping up barbed wire.
A Russian Putilov, built on a British Austin truck chassis, with Vickers Machine Guns in two turrets. The steel trough around the gun and the multiple turrets are fairly typical of Russian armored vehicles.