D7 Bulldozer
(US610)
includes one D7 Bulldozer.
The Caterpillar D7 series medium bulldozer began service with the U.S. military during World War II. With upgrades and changes, it has been a workhorse for the U.S. Military for over fifty years, fulfilling its primary earthmoving role as well as a host of other roles discovered for it, for example mine clearing with a special flail adapter kit. Although very versatile, the ability of the D7 to operate varies with soil conditions.
The D7 Bulldozer first started its military service with the US Army during the Second World War. Its primary role was as an earthmover for constructing fortifications such as Anti-tank ditches. Soon however, other roles were quickly discovered that the D7 Bulldozer could fulfil.
However, it ability to perform was highly dependent on the soil conditions and due to its poor mobility had to be transported behind the frontlines via trailer. Equipped with a LeTourneau bulldozer blade or Carryall scraper, the bulldozer proved so popular that the manufacturers could barely keep up with demand.
The D7 Bulldozer in Flames ofWar
Mobility: Very Slow tank
Armour Front: 0
Armour Side: 0
Armour Top: 0
Bulldozer, may assault bunkers
Burying Bunkers
Tanks fitted with dozer blades sometimes simply buried bunkers rather than trying to knock them out.
Tank teams fitted with Bulldozer blades can assault a Bunker in the same way as an Infantry team. If the Bunker is a Turret, it is automatically Destroyed if hit.
Gapping Anti-tank Obstacles
Bulldozers are particularly useful for cutting tracks down into and out of anti-tank ditches and burying other types of anti-tank obstacles.
A Bulldozer can gap Barbed Wire Entanglements, Street Barricades, and Anti-tank Obstacle in the same way that a Pioneer team gaps an Obstacle. It removes the Antitank Obstacle after one success, rather than requiring six successes. Pioneer Supply vehicles do not give Bulldozers a re-roll of their Skill Test.
Gapping Rough Terrain
Especially when armoured or fitted to tanks, dozers can also be invaluable in offensives across harsh terrain.
Bulldozers can create a Slow Going gap in Difficult or Very Difficult Going (such as a Bocage Hedgerow), other than Obstacles in the same way. A successful Skill Test creates a 2”/5cm wide gap in a Linear Obstacle or a gap 2”/5cm wide by 4”/10cm long in Area Terrain that no longer requires a Bogging Check to cross.
However, it ability to perform was highly dependent on the soil conditions and due to its poor mobility had to be transported behind the frontlines via trailer. Equipped with a LeTourneau bulldozer blade or Carryall scraper, the bulldozer proved so popular that the manufacturers could barely keep up with demand.
Description of Components
1x Exhaust stack sprue.
1x Bulldozer blade.
1x Resin bulldozer hull.
1x Right-hand side track.
1x Left-hand side track.
1x Blade assembly.
