Incoming!
My lovely wife is sick with a nasty head cold that hit her out of nowhere. I'm pretty sure that I'm in the early stages of it myself, which is not going to be too much fun. I've spent most of the day in a daze. On top of which, I haven't been sleeping well, so I'm dead tired.
I hate being sick.
The Equipment Arrives
The Greek dropped off the new weight bench. It'll fit quite nicely in the space we have for it without taking up too much room or making the patio doors inaccessible. The carpet mats we have will be more than adequate and we won't be needing the huge, stinky rubber mat. We're going to go exchange it for a smaller, lightweight, non-stinky mat instead.
There's an impressive array of weights there and I can't wait to get into it. The Greek, you are the man.
The Weather Outside is Frightful
It's very warm out there. It's been raining and the snow is pretty much mostly gone. It's early January and I don't need mittens or a hat. Freaky.
Of course, everybody blames this on Global Warming, despite the fact that climate is a huge, poorly understood complex system which is expected to produce outlying events over time. Whatever. Anyway, if this is global warming, then give me some more. Jack it up!
The Mystery Revealed
Note to self: next time, rename the files.
The vehicle in question is a CV90, built by the Swedes in lots of variants, serving as everything from IFV to medical to light tank roles. This one is a CV90 AMOS. AMOS stands for Automatic Mortar System. Those two barrels are twin linked 120mm automatic mortars.
120mm is about as big as you can get and still be called a mortar. It can do the standard indirect fire support role, but because they're automatic you can lay down an impressive concentration of fire (14 rounds impacting time-on-target is doable by one vehicle). You'd need a few conventional pieces to get the volume of fire that this one vehicle can produce.
Moreover, it's also quite capable of engaging in direct fire support; either line-of-sight fire support with its usual explosive rounds, or loading anti-tank rounds and engaging armour with direct fire. That capability puts it into a class of its own.
They're also playing around with line-of-sight indirect fire with specialized anti-tank rounds, lobbing them onto the tops of enemy tanks where the armour is thin and the tank is vulnerable.
Some people would say that large-caliber automatic mortars are the way of the future. Could be.
Kudos on the guesses, particularly Prime's idea of duels between tanks sitting on the decks of aircraft carriers.
Geekery
After some experimentation, I've found that I can fit two normal unsleeved Vampire decks into my new 10th Edition tin. However, since I have deck boxes already, and I don't have a good way to store and transport my blood counters and Edge counter for Vampire (presently in a crude fabric bag with an open top that doesn't close or seal in any way), I've decided that the 10th tin is going to be my Vampire counter holder. Maybe I'll get the 10th Ed. set 1 and put decks in that.
I'm going to take my decks apart this weekend. The first deck I'm putting together is going to be called Guns and Butter; it'll be Toreador and !Toreador, Auspex for bleed defence and intercept, presence for voting (and it'll have lots of voting), celerity to back up the guns (and it'll have lots of guns).
I'll probably tweak my Lasombra stealth/bleed deck, but not really take it apart, and then make up a third deck which is entirely new. Not sure what the third one will be. I have ideas, though. Oh, I have ideas.
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