Laugh Off Land Mines With Bolt Action’s New Tank Option
August 7, 2012 by dracs
Are those pesky magnetic mines bogging down your precious tanks? Well don't worry as Bolt Action has a new German tank option to help avoid these deadly traps. The King Tiger with Zimmerit anti-magnetic mine paste.
Used by German tanks to avoid their own magnetic mines, the Zimmerit paste provided an extra layer of contact to prevent the mines becoming magnetically attached. Often ridged, the paste would prevent the mine from becoming firmly attached, allowing it to be shaken loose.
As you can see the paste changes the surface of the tank from a smooth metal plating. Warlord have said that this will "make painting panzers much easier as you can apply your usual techniques of drybrushing, blending or washes – something that can give a less than satisfactory result when applied to flat surfaces."
Will any of you history buffs be using this to stave off the hazardous mines of the battle field?
*cough* Magnetic mines are not classed as landmines….. Also, the Germans developed Zimmerit in the fear the allies may develop their own magnetic mines… Not to protect them from their own… which we didn’t bother doing to any great extent as it was just easier to lay a grenade or mine on the tracks of the tank and disable it. *cough* Bally nice looking tank though. Just starting to build a British Commando force for Bolt Action so I hope some of the local German players don’t get one of these (Saw a poxy Panther on the table last week!… Read more »
Sorry I got my degree in English not History as you can see. Although with my level of spelling and grammatical errors it might be hard to see that haha.
I wouldn’t worry, I only know that because I’m a sad geek and wargamed WW2 many years ago.
The British tried out some Zimmerit of their own (trialed it on my favorite tank, the Churchill) but decided not to bother as self propelled explosives made magnetic mines kind of less of a worry.
Think the Canadians did too, I think. Hold on……… Yep, according to Wikipedia that’s right so it must be true!
Can’t be worse than my spelling and grammatical ham fisted skills sometimes.