This stubby little weapon was one of the first German artillery pieces adopted after WWI and proved to be popular with the infantry battalions it equipped. Although it was overshadowed by larger guns later in the war, the light weight made the weapon very handy to use in action. Elevation is –10 to +73 degrees and the breech opened somewhat like a single-barrel shotgun. It was typically crewed by six men.
Subassemblies: Motorcycle Wheeled chassis +2, two off-road
wheels -1.
Powertrain: –
Occupancy: –. Cargo: 0.6 Body.
| Armor | F | RL | B | T | U |
| Body | 4/25 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Wheels | 2/3 | 2/3 | 2/3 | 2/3 | 2/3 |
Weaponry
76.2mm Very Short Howitzer/75mmL11 [Body:F] (0).
Equipment
Body: Universal mount.
Statistics
| Size: ?’¥?’¥?’ | Payload: 0 tons | Lwt: 880 lbs |
| Volume: 2.4 | Maint.: 170 hours | Price: $1,400 |
HT: 12
HP: 40 [Body], 15 [Each Wheel]
| gSpeed: * | gAccel: * | gDecel: * | gMR: 0.75 | gSR: 4 | GP: High (1/4) |
Design Notes
The cost, weight and HPs of the chassis were doubled; design weight
was lowered by 12% (leaving the chassis numbers alone would have required
an 18% increase in design weight and not given the design a robustness
it needed).
Variants
A mountain gun version, of which only around 100 were built, lacked
the gun shield and used spoked wheels in order to reduce weight. It could
be broken down into ten parts for transport. While the resulting chassis
was a bit too light for the gun, the weapon was still liked by those who
used it.
A paratroop version was designed, but only a few were built, as it was felt that recoilless guns were better suited to the role.