What a Tanker thread

[Buff Orpington]

I'm gonna have to work out a Girls Und Panzer list. Don't expect a fair fight though, one team has a WWI Mk IV and another has a bloody Centurion.

[Norman D. Landings]

First game today: two Char bis vs. two Pz III & a IV.

I had to watch mein Panzer’s 37mm shells bounce (almost) harmlessly off the garlic-muncher’s armour!

Our ‘heavy’, the Pz IV, was brewed up in spectacular fashion early on.
I took temporary damage and an optic hit, in exchange for scoring a couple of mobility hits... on opponents who were using ‘sit and shoot’ tactics, it was no real drawback.

Whilst I hid in a wood trying to roll sixes to repair my temporary damage, the French found some elan and advanced to pincer my remaining kamerad.
(As they did so, I peeked out of the woods and plinked ineffectually at their Gallic rumps - I doubt they noticed.)
Faced with the prospect of being the filling in a French sandwich, my teammate withdrew.
I slunk back into the bushes and that was that.

Very good fun was had by all.
There are distinct ‘tides’ to the game, in that success breeds success and conversely, failure can snowball, but crucially that can be turned around with a good command dice roll.
Bottom line was that everybody would be be happy to play again.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Given that most Char B1s lost in 1940 simply ran out of fuel and were destroyed by their crews, and the majority lost in action fell to 88mm and 105mm guns, that went pretty much to form, Norm. If it's any consolation you did better than 10th Panzer Division at Stonne, which lost two Panzer IVs and eleven Panzer IIIs to ONE Char B1 (which then also took out two anti-tank guns for good measure).

[Etranger]

Baron, you're becoming a Francotankophile...

[levied troop]

Char 2c for the win

As long as they don’t have to cross a bridge.

[Norman D. Landings]

Jesus Jones, WTF were they THINKING?
It’s a beast!

I can’t recall the WaT French tank progression ladder off the top of my head, but please tell me that thing’s not on it!

[Etranger]

30% of the total production run of the Char 2C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDfiX_xu7bE they don't need no steenking bridges! Basically the same gun as the Sherman, 4 MGs, 90mm of frontal armour (on the uparmoured Lorraine) & carried it's own chef .. Be afraid, very afraid...

[grizzlymc]

Are they vertical launch SSMs in the midsection.

[Norman D. Landings]

Just NO. It’s bad and wrong and massive and wrong. And bad.

To get back on track - my first choice Burma being limited by rubbish Jap panzers, do I want North Africa, or Ostfront?

[grizzlymc]

North Africa. You can extend it to Italy later. Then use your Italy stuff for Normandy. Ost front is just a bunch of T34s fighting ever bigger panzers.