Meet The SS-Ki For Bolt Action – The Japanese Swiss Army Knife Vehicle
October 25, 2015 by brennon
If you're looking to get something built, destroyed, tweaked, or burnt on the battlefield and you play as the Japanese in Bolt Action see what you think of the SS-Ki from Warlord Games...
The SS-Ki...
"...was designed to perform a multitude of engineering tasks to overcome the fortified Soviet positions along the Manchurian border – including trench digging, mine clearance, barbed wire cutting, mass decontamination, chemical weapons employment, use as a crane/recovery vehicle, as a flamethrower tank, and as a bridgelayer – and it was therefor considered by the Imperial Japanese Army to be one of its most versatile multi-function support vehicles."
This frightening contraption has its uses in Bolt Action as a flamethrower tank. The real version of the SS-Ki actually had multiple flamethrowers around the hull all pointing in different directions. It is a little bit like a team designed a robot for Robot Wars.
What do you think of it?
"It is a little bit like a team designed a robot for Robot Wars..."
Very nice.
a very unusual looking tank never seen this before looks like 5 flamethrower’s on it.
http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/01/17/soukou-sagyou-ki-the-japanese-clawed-monster/
Kind of would like to see special rules that would allow the use of the engineering tasks of these kinds of vehicles. But maybe – historically – most engineering vehicles would not be used during actual combat.
You could create an objective around clearing a minefield maybe? Or setting a bridge? Maybe an escort mission through some rough terrain, where the Japanese have to cross a river under fire? I suppose these aren’t really rules, just suggestions of how to shoe-horn an engineering role into the game. I’m only just starting to think about playing the game myself at the moment so i have no experience of the actual rules in practice, maybe it wouldn’t work at all 😛
interesting looking vehicle it certainly has made me want to go and do a bit of research on it.
Darn, now I wise I had Japanese. Maybe I will get it for some other reason.
THE BOYZ IS LOOKIN’ TA LOOT ONE FER THE MEKS!
Very interesting offering. I’d like to pick one up but will do a bit of research first. Would like to see if it was used beyond the very early war period, especially against USMC or British, maybe Burma…
From what I can tell (from the article linked by zorg), it was made to be used in Manchuria against the Russians. It ended up all over though; Philippines, China etc.
Just remembered Manchuria IS China, so that was a bit redundant. I’d assume it was used other places as well as it says over a hundred were made. I’m dumb 😛