Polish-Russian War - Russian Tachanka

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Polish-Russian War - Russian Tachanka

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A tachanka was a horse drawn wagon or cart with a heavy machine gun mounted on the back. This made it possible to deploy machine guns quickly, especially on the wide, rapidly changing, Eastern Front. It was used by Russian cavalry in WWI and by Bolshevik, White Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish cavalry in the Russian Civil Wars. Germany used a similar vehicle on the Eastern Front during WWI.

My tachanka is a troika (three horse carriage) with a Vickers machine gun facing the rear. It functions in First Eagles as a Truck; drop it into your Ground Objects folder and First Eagles will assign it to some of your Armed Reconnaissance missions. The machine gun is set for AA and will fire at enemy planes that come within its field of fire.

The download includes three LODs and a destroyed version.

My thanks to Gepard for suggesting this interesting vehicle.

Installation Instructions
For both FE1 and FE2

Unzip the file and open my "GroundObject" folder. Copy the folder named "Tachanka" to your FirstEagles/Objects/GroundObject folder. Then copy the file named "TachankaDestroyed.bmp" into your GroundObject folder. Note that the "TachankaDestroyed.bmp" file should not be inside any other folder. 
 

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• Submitter
  Stephen1918
• Submitted
  12/17/2021
• Category
  First Eagles - WWI and Early Years - Object Mods

 

[+whiteknight06604 934]

very cool. thank you

[Gatling20 753]

Very nice little addition, thanks Stephen.