Produktbeschreibung
Have some fun at a time when men were men and tanks were on the smaller side!
The mid-war period was a time of learning and experimentation for all the countries as they were struggling to get their heads around what assets they needed to bring the war to a swift and victorious conclusion. It was this premise (and some of the wonderful things created) that started us looking at all those odd vehicles that were being developed for the period but were never put into mass production as the tactics and realties of the war began to take shape.
A 48-page book with a difference!
It is not a book of armies but a book of platoons of experimental vehicles that saw limited action in the period. Some, like the Boarhound, were ordered in their thousands and then withdrawn after the first 30 were delivered, as the idea of a 30-ton armored car in Italy was not a great fit. Others were prototypes that saw service for the briefest of moments as either technology moved on or the higher commands of each country made definitive choices to not make heavy tanks but produce more medium ones faster.
The book gives you a choice of 18 such vehicles ranging from heavily armored machine gun carriers like the Panzer IF to land battleships like the British TOG 2*, more in keeping with the ideas of WWI.
Each vehicle has its own double page spread covering its history, the reasons behind its conception and failure to become mainstream, and its unit characteristics in mid-war and how they are fielded. Each vehicle has its own platoon and effectively becomes either a support choice or swaps out for an existing choice in the armies that you would expect. The idea is not to have a table full of experimental vehicles, but to be lucky enough that your command was issued that one unit on this particular day to see how it fared combined with the usual forces.
The book also has a great little scenario, "Breakdown Rescue Mission", where you are tasked to recover the valuable unit, as the latest technology falling into enemy hands is something you simply cannot let happen. |
