Little Willie won't drive

[MacXimus]

I tried to take Little Willie for a test drive but it wouldn't budge out of it's starting position. The fluid levels are all good, the engine runs, the treads move, but the tank doesn't actually move forward or backward.

[Goozy]

We are aware of the problem, but thanks for the report. We are going to fix it asap. Sorry for that.

[Zenduz]

probably gave it too little horsepower and grip

[Desert Fox]

Originally posted by DeGeneralsGoozy:

We are aware of the problem, but thanks for the report. We are going to fix it asap. Sorry for that.

its a horsepower issue, i moved mine to the gun range and it drove but it has almost no power.

[devil_505]

It is a suspension issue. All tanks struggle on the testing ground since the big update. But here is almost no space between tracks and the suspension. So the tank is sitting upon the ground with its suspension and the tracks have no contact at all. You can see that problem if you look from the side in exterior mode. The tracks hang in midair and only parts of the suspension make contact with the ground.

But I doubt Little Willie would behave good on that terrain even if there were no problems with the suspension. It was built to drive the nomansland on the western front. That place was mostly flat terrain (aside from the occasional shell holes and trenches). The test track in TMS is way to rough and with huge slopes and potholes and is impossible to handle for a tank based on a caterpillar suspension.

So I don´t see Little Willie driving on the TMS test track at all.

[MacXimus]

Maybe we could install a car park for it to drive around on... A new update maybe?

[Goozy]

It is true, Littlie Willie is very hard to simulate with no drive wheels as the contact wheels, only roller wheels - we will revisit it.

Originally posted by MacXimus:

Maybe we could install a car park for it to drive around on... A new update maybe?

When we add steering wheels to the Little Willie, it probably will be able to handle test drive.

[Shogun]

another nit pick the hit detection when trying to disassemble the roller wheels is more miss than hit

[Cpl. Burden R 3294]

Originally posted by devil_505:

It was built to drive the nomansland on the western front. That place was mostly flat terrain (aside from the occasional shell holes and trenches). The test track in TMS is way to rough and with huge slopes and potholes and is impossible to handle for a tank based on a caterpillar suspension.

So I don´t see Little Willie driving on the TMS test track at all.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:After_the_Battle_of_Flers-Courcelette.jpg

Flers-Courcelette. Where the first Mk.I Tanks were deployed. I think you might have some misconceptions about the Western Front. "Occasional shell holes". The place was a moonscape in a large number of sectors, especially the ones where tanks were expected to be deployed (that was the point, to use them to break through areas where infantry alone could not).

[lubber333]

Originally posted by Cpl. Burden R 3294:

Originally posted by devil_505:

It was built to drive the nomansland on the western front. That place was mostly flat terrain (aside from the occasional shell holes and trenches). The test track in TMS is way to rough and with huge slopes and potholes and is impossible to handle for a tank based on a caterpillar suspension.

So I don´t see Little Willie driving on the TMS test track at all.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:After_the_Battle_of_Flers-Courcelette.jpg

Flers-Courcelette. Where the first Mk.I Tanks were deployed. I think you might have some misconceptions about the Western Front. "Occasional shell holes". The place was a moonscape in a large number of sectors, especially the ones where tanks were expected to be deployed (that was the point, to use them to break through areas where infantry alone could not).

Yeah, can only second this. The nomansland was shelled to kingdom come - rolling artillery barrages do that. Here's reddit link to a picture of Verdun today: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1q5p4t/verdun_still_visible_shell_holes_almost_a_hundred/

Little Willie would not be able to move through there