What Engineering Equipment would you most like to see??

[Holdfast]

I have built a British Army Armoured Engineer Troop dated late 1980's to 1993

3 x AVLB - GHQ Chieftain base with add ons from other manufacturers.
3x AVRE (Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers) - GHQ Chieftain base with additional frame and fascines.
3x Spartan (Troop Commander, Troop Staff Sergeant & Recce Sergeant vehicles)

Link to pictures below

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Holdfast

[evildrsmith]

If I'm limited to just one bit of kit:
Leopard I AVLB (Biber).

More broadly:
Current British Army Engineering and armoured recovery vehicles:
CRARRV
Trojan AVRE
Titan AVLB
Terrier CET
Warrior recovery / repair (FV512 and/or FV513)

Plus Gulf-war (1990/91) period Chieftain AVRE and AVLB (Both with the up-armour panels/ AVRE with dozer and carrying pipe fascines, AVLB with mine plough)
FV180 CET
Combat Support Boat (aka Bridge erection boat)
Stalwart (ok, it's not strictly engineering equipment).

[Brigade Commander]

One of the few pieces of equipment missing from a combat engineer battalion attached to a heavy division is the SEER or John Deere backhoe tractor (depending on time-frame). AVLB's, CEV's, dump trucks and the M-113's, trucks and jeeps / HMMWV's (depending on time-frame) are already modeled.

[Holdfast]

Couldn't let the Engineers disapear!!!

Just thought I would share a reply from GHQ about the Engineer bridging equipment ( bailey bridge, pontoon bridge & Ribbon Bridge) they are looking to produce as part of their building range.

GHQ Email

Unfortunately at this time we don't have release dates for the bridges. A good estimate would be something this fall/winter. The ribbon bridge will initially be released in the water, and will likely have the tug boats.

We will offer a land pack that will have the trucks and the bridge pieces. Please let us know if we can be of assistance to you again in the future.

Thank you for your support,
GHQ

Holdfast

[Schwerepunkt]

I would prefer that US and Allied Combat Engineer equipment includie personnel carrying or placing satchel charges (such as used at Normandy), bangalore torpedoes (such as used all over against barbed wire), individiduals on their stomachs crawling searching with knives for German teller and claymore mines, cranes using Sherman chassis, bulldozers, and of course the bailey bridges.
I would really like to see a Combat Engineer Comany issued for US, British, and German ground forces. I am not sure what would be usable for Soviet CEs.
Thanks for lisitening.
Schwerepunkt

[ROGER_HOUSTON2EMC-ENG.COM]

For the US
The SEE (OR THE NEW JCB replacement)
The D-9 Dozer
A real 5 ton dump truck (not pretend the current 5 ton cargo is a dump truck)
Assorted engineer equipment pack (grader,roller,scoop loader,scraper) (can be generic for any nation as an engineer unit)


For the UK
FV 180 CET
Chieftain AVLB/AVRE
M-2 Alligator Bridge

For the Russians
MTU-55
Kraz Dump Truck
TMM Bridge
MDK 2 BAT/M
IMR
GSP Ferry

[whoa Mohamed]

IDF D9R dozer like what was used in Faluja
Merkat Mine detection vehicle
Start mine roller kits
Indvidual dozer and blades for M113 and other vehicles.

[Mk 1]

I would prefer that US and Allied Combat Engineer equipment includie personnel carrying or placing satchel charges ... bangalore torpedoes ... individiduals on their stomachs crawling searching with knives for ... mines ....
I would really like to see a Combat Engineer Comany issued for US, British, and German ground forces. I am not sure what would be usable for Soviet CEs.

I think there is much to consider here.

It should be possible to develop 6 or 7 iindividual figure poses which, with only very minor variation (mostly headgear) could serve for almost all WW2 combatants.

The poses I would use would be:

1 ) Flame-thrower. Give me two cylinders on the back for a generic look. I can customize it to most nations' kit.

2 ) Magnetic mine detector. Give me a standing figure, minimal webgear, holding a mine sweaper with headphones over his bare head (or soft side-cap). Only real difference from German to US to Soviet to Italian to British would be whether the end of the sweaper had a circular plate, a wire loop, or a straight wand.

3 ) Manual mine sweaping. On the belly with a knife (usually a bayonet). Could be knealing instead. Give me a bare head (most folks doing this job did not want a helmet flopping over their eyes) and rolled-up sleaves. Put a rifle over his back. Still pretty generic, I'd think.

4 ) Roadworker / entrencher standing with shovel. Bare headed and bare chested, standing and digging. Probably two-thirds of what combat engineers did was dig. Put a rifle over his back if you want to. Very generic.

5 ) Roadworker / bridge builder with sledge hammer. Same as #4, but swinging a hammer vs. turning a shovel. Also with a rifle. Could also serve for digging (pick) and cutting wood (axe) with a little work of the tweazers. Very generic.

6 ) Satchel Charge. This one probably needs a helmet. Oh well. Holding sizable rectangular object in one hand, and rifle in other, in an action stance. I've made my own similar figs from the grenade tossers in a couple of the infantry packs. Useful to have for engineers, tank-hunters, supply bearers, or medics.

7 ) Pole / Line Charge. This one also probably needs a helmet. Knealing, pushing a pole in front of him. Good for blowing wires or bunkers, and clearing minefields. A snip or twist of the pole and this figure also works for construction, commo, or medic.

As with the arty crews I could easily see a set of poses that could serve many nations with only minor changes to the headgear on a few of the figs.

[rommel58]

What about a Goliath Tracked Mine for WW2 Germans? It would be rather small with possibly a separate fig holding some sort of remote control.

I am not sure if this is exactly engineering equipment, but still what i think would be a good idea.

[CG1]

I'm with Mark 1 on the engineers - the more generic, the more support and the more likely we are to get it.

I would like to see an additional figure with a detonator box in the set but otherwise I like Mark I's suggestions.

It would probably be more effective if we can all get behind 1 or 2 vehicles for each period - probably the D9 and M3 Alligator for moderns and I'll go back to my old suggestion of an add-on pack for Churchills (Mine Plough/Fascine/SBG/Crocodile Trailer) for WWII. With what we already have, this should get us past most holes,barricades,roadblocks,landslides and mines!

[Schwerepunkt]

Mk1 your ideas for figure types are excellent. I would vote for them. I realize that not all of what I proposed could be doable and I think some of the figures could be converted from regular infantry.
The US forces already have air crompressors, workshops, and a bulldozer for engineer work. I know that in most cases combat engineers did not have cranes to move the frames of Bailey Bridges and could not use them for floating pontoon bridges but a rig on the front of a Sherman tank was used I believe and would do for most purposes.
I hope we can all get a bit of what we want.
Schwerepunkt

[Cav Dog]

Great list Mk1. The only figures I would add are blokes with wire cutters, probably prone on their backs cutting through wire entanglements above their heads. I can make entanglements, just give me the guys with the nippers!

[Holdfast]

Hello GHQ,

Could you advise a general time frame for the bridging you mentioned back in May. What does "we have not set dates" mean???

Great you listen, would like to be able to buy the engineering equipment

Holdfast

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Posted: Fri May 20, 2011 2:31 pm Post subject:

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Thanks for the great comments, and for understanding that we try to keep as many people happy as we can, while trying to get a little something for everyone. As for items in our buildings line, we have not set dates yet, but they will include a Watch Tower made from conduit, a Bailey Bridge, a Ribbon Bridge, and a Pontoon Bridge.

Thanks again for sending in all of the great suggestions!

GHQ

[6milPhil]

Generic tractors, bulldozers and cranes.

[Brigade Commander]

I have this on another thread but it wasn't an engineering equipment thread so...
1) The SEE or
2) The John Deere replacement.
Or, of course, both to cover a longer time-frame.