Unlikely they would add it. Mainly because it would require them allowing 2 types of speed and travel.
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I hate what AI has done to the historical community.
https://digitalnz.org/records/22898511
https://digitalnz.org/records/48691531/schofield-hybrid-semi-tracked-tank-at-waiouru-1943
It’s surprisingly had a lot of photographs taken of it.
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ya its sad and its made youtube history really bad there are only a handful of good ones. Good news they tend to value shock so its mostly easy enough to avoid but its to milk Youtubes monetary system. I dont really like it in the suggestions out side of showing “what it could be in game” AKA profile pics and vehicle models. I used it for my first post in the discussion to demonstrate the crossover but it was a pain so I never did it again. But if it looks good enough in Gaijins PowerPoint to get them to do the event then it was worth it.
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Even Google searches are getting filled with AI “historical photos” thanks to things like Facebook “historical channels” posting fake content.
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ya its bad. There where always adulterated images of stuff but AI slop is something else with the scale.
Many people are slowly coming out to call this stuff out, thankfully. Except Panzerpicture, because their account was forcefully taken down by YouTube’s dumb AI system, but that’s not here nor there. That said, in terms of the Schofield, it could still be pretty fun.
Yeah I am like extra wary now, which sucks! For the first pic you have given though I should note that’s the first Schofield prototype, the one with only MG armaments. (It does raise a lot of confusion when researching this topic, admittingly)
That being said, I’m still trying to figure out how the wheel mode work, since the way the tracks are held up during all the wheel mode pictures suggest that the tracks don’t move when wheels are engaged (otherwise it’d chew through that cabling that holds the tracks off the ground), but at the same time the drive wheel is seemingly hard mounted on the drive sprocket…? And the picture Ogaly provided, it looks like wheel mode has steering mechanism on the front for its wheel mode, so it doesn’t rely on differential steering when on wheels…?
It’s got a pretty standard axle arrangement, the easiest way to understand it is the sprocket free wheels on bearings around the outside of it so it isn’t driven. To use the tracks you need to unbolt the wheel with the pneumatic tyre and then lock the driven hub the wheel was on to sprocket in some way to drive that instead. He had some different ideas about how to do this, like a plate to bolt one to the other, or a plate sliding on a spline. The prototype is quite different in form but works in a similar manner, just without the bearings, it uses a bolt on support plate to hold the sprocket when disconnected.
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