Mounted on the chassis was the Admirality-pattern armored hull, which featured 9mm thick plates all around (a weak spot being the wooden floor). The Rolls-Royce Pattern 20 and other designs such as the Lanchester Mk I or Peugeot Mle 1918 were very similar.ĭescription: The vehicle used the chassis of the commercial Rolls-Royce 40/50 Silver Ghost, unmodified except for the stronger springs. Many Pattern 14 armored cars were upgraded in 1920 by fitting improved wheels and tires. One famous unit was Lawrence's Hedjaz Armoured Car Section. During WWI, armored cars were typically organized in four-car batteries. Units of the corps operated in Ireland, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Persia, and India (all then part of the British Empire). In 1915 the division was disbanded and, except for one squadron, its assets transferred to the British Army Motor Machine Gun Corps (later the Tank Corps). The RNAC Division used these vehicles in combat on the Western Front, in North Africa, South West Africa, and East Africa.
The Pattern 14 was mass-produced based on a commercial touring car chassis. The mainstay of the division was the Rolls-Royce Pattern 14, but it also included armored cars and trucks of other makes, as well as machine guns mounted on motorcycles. These proved to be effective, and by late 1914, the Royal Naval Armoured Car Division had been formed. When the Germans overran Belgium in 1914, a Royal Naval Air Service squadron stationed there with a motley assembly of aircraft, cars, and riflemen armored some of their vehicles with boiler-plate. History: The idea to fit a car with armor and armaments pre-dates the twentieth century. "A Rolls in the desert was above rubies." This article works will with the earlier article "Heavy Metal - Four 20th Century Tanks for GURPS." Rolls-Royce Pattern 14, Great Britain, 1914 For each of the four vehicles, there is a historical introduction to help the gamemaster place it in a campaign, a detailed description and finally a reasonably realistic representation using GURPS Vehicles. Here comes a selection of historical vehicles that covers most of the 20 th-century, from early TL6 to late TL7. Light armor can make an exciting encounter in many action-oriented games. The engineers started to prepare the blocks of C4 and the fuses. While he was reporting to the lieutenant in charge, one of the ASVs fired a long burst into the tree line. When Hoffstetter and his team arrived, the M.P.
but a firefight on the way in was no good start for a commando raid. With surprise, they should be able to take both of them out. There were two BTR-60s on the embankment, covering the road. Lieutenant Holston eased his boat towards the center of the river.
He forced his hands to stay away from his stiletto it wouldn't help against a 20mm autocannon anyway. The checkpoint didn't look very professional, but if he turned around now, they had to wonder why. Sergeant Young took a deep breath and approached the Krauts.
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Behind him, the others tried to figure out how to load the machine gun. At least the armor should help with any fences that got in the way. The car was supposed to be a Rolls-Royce, but it wasn't like any Rolls he had seen before. Jake settled into the unfamiliar driver's seat. Roadblock Four 20 th Century Armored Cars for GURPS by Onno Meyer & Hans-Christian Vortisch
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