Ever wonder what the first modern armored military vehicle was?
Was it the tank, which first appeared in 1916? Or maybe the
armored car, which first appeared in 1902? Not at all. It was an
armored road train, a tractor and several trailers, all armored,
which were sent to South Africa to protect supply columns in the
Second Boer War. The armored road train first appeared in 1899,
three years before various British and French designers
introduced their earliest attempts at armored cars. This booklet
details the concepts of military tractors and armored railroad
equipment, both predecessors to the road train, as well as the
brief military history of the Fowler equipment during the Boer
War. As usualy, this book includes appendices with statistical
data compatible with D20 Modern, Spycraft 2.0, and Savage
Worlds.