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German players will love Zvzeda's 1/100 King Tiger kit. This is the first King Tiger in plastic at this scale and it builds up into a fantastic and well-detailed model. But at 28 parts it is also more complex than other Zvezda 1/100 kits. The vehicle stats for Flames of War are listed and we briefly look at the rules aspects of this heavy German tank - some advantages are the heavy armour and hard-hitting 8.8cm gun, but liabilities include Overloaded and Slow Traverse. We also briefly consider some ways to defend against this armoured behemoth.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel-class_submarine
The Hotel class is the general NATO classification for a type of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine that was originally put into service by the Soviet Union around 1959. The Soviet designation was Project 658.

Development of the submarine, designed to carry the D-2 launch system and R-13 missiles, was approved on 26 August 1956. Work on the design began in September 1956, the technical project was completed in the first quarter of 1957.

The duties of the chief designer of Project 658 were originally assigned to the chief engineer of OKB-18, P.Z. Golosovskiy. In February 1958 project management was transferred to I.V. Mikhaylov, who in October 1958 had replaced S.N. Kovalev. The deputy of the chief designer was from the outset I.D. Spasskiy.

The Hotel design was based on the Project 627 November class[citation needed], the first Soviet nuclear submarines, modified by adding the missile compartment from the Golf class submarines. Additionally, the Hotels had small horizontal hydroplanes for better maneuverability, and more reliable electro-hydraulic command control surfaces for high-speed underwater operations with reduced noise.

The D-2 launch system on the Hotels placed three R-13 missiles in vertical containers directly behind the sail. The submarine had to be surfaced to launch, but all three missiles could be fired within 12 minutes of surfacing.

Submarines
Hotel I
The first Hotel submarine, K-19, was laid down on 17 October 1958, and would be given to Captain Nikolai Vladimirovich Zateyev, only to suffer numerous setbacks and accidents. The last of the eight Hotel submarines was launched 1 April 1962. All of them were built at Severodvinsk State Shipyard 402 (now known as the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise - SEVMASH - in Molotovsk (now Severodvinsk) shipyard[1] Russia. The eight Hotels were K-19, K-33, K-55, K-40, K-16, K-145, K-149 (Ukrainskiy Komsomolets), and K-178.
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The R-13 was a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) developed by the Soviet Union starting around 1955. It was assigned the NATO reporting name SS-N-4 Sark and carried the GRAU index 4K50.
Development of the R-13 was authorised by the Soviet Supreme Council on 25 July 1955 for use on the Project 629 and Project 658 submarines. The design work was started by OKB-1 under Sergei Korolev before being transferred to CB Miasskoe engineering / Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau (chief designer - Viktor Makeyev). Final technical specifications was approved by 11 January 1956. Serial production was undertaken at Zlatoust Machinery Plant in 1959. The R-13 was a single-stage liquid-fuel rocket and entered service in 1961.
In 1961, the Soviet Union launches its first ballistic missile nuclear submarine, the K-19. The ship is led by Captain Alexei Vostrikov, aided by executive officer Mikhail Polenin. Polenin, the original captain, and the crew have served together for some time but Vostrikov's appointment is alleged to have been aided by his wife's political connections.
"The Widowmaker" nickname was used only in the movie. In real life, the submarine had no nickname until the nuclear accident on 5 July 1961, when she got her actual nickname "Hiroshima". Producers later admitted that the title was "one of their biggest mistakes."
The Hotel-class submarine K-19 was portrayed in the film by the Juliett-class K-77, which was significantly modified for the role. Her Majesty's Canadian Submarine Ojibwa portrayed the Soviet Whiskey-class submarine S-270. HMCS Terra Nova portrayed the USS Decatur. The Canadian Halifax Shipyards stood in for the Sevmash shipyard of northern Russia.