Italy, 1944

[Etranger]

here you go...
The British Army in Italy 1944. Sexton 25pdr self-propelled gun of 1st Royal Horse Artillery, operating as part of 'Porter Force' on the Adriatic coast near Ravenna, 1 December 1944. (IWM via Wikipedia http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/47/772/large_000000.jpg)

and a biography of a gunner in a Sexton RA regiment in Italy https://www.custermen.com/AtTheFront/Bi ... sworth.htm although there are some silly errors in the entry.

[Essex Boy]

That's a splendid looking game, Donald.

[ochoin]

And kept it because it was 10mph faster than the rest.

Funny you should write this Fred, because the speed of the Cromwells in the game might have been a game winner. I was able to spring various ambushes with Recce & infantry & then rush the Cromwells up to deal with them. In the BKC rules it goes 3 times as fast as a Churchill. It was the bad luck of losing both FAC & FAO in the first moves that cut off my air & artillery support: both vital to my plan.

So thanks for all the good information, canny comments & interest.

I don't really know much about WW2.......I'm not sure I had to write that.

donald

[FreddBloggs]

I remember reading about the incident, they were astonished at the bullet marks a 20mm aa gun had left on it, so maintenance checked the serial number and found it was a training tank, but he refused as troop commander to let them swap it out.

He also commented on Comets, from their change over period, they took them out to a disabled panther and found the new gun (vickers 77mm (actually 76.2mm but not same ammo, hence different designation)) no better than the old 75mm cromwell gun.

[Etranger]

I remember reading about the incident, they were astonished at the bullet marks a 20mm aa gun had left on it, so maintenance checked the serial number and found it was a training tank, but he refused as troop commander to let them swap it out.

IIRC the 20mm round was embedded in the 'armourplate'. It's in Bill Bellamy's "Troop Leader" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obit ... 82676.html

[FreddBloggs]

That's the one, could not remember if it was him or Steel Brownlie.

[grizzlymc]

That's a splendid looking game, Donald.

That's a real B&W photo of Italy EB.

[Essex Boy]

That's a splendid looking game, Donald.

That's a real B&W photo of Italy EB.

Git

[MarshalNey]

Life is a game.

[FreddBloggs]

And I have lost the rule book, the dice are loaded and all my betting chips are in another dimension.