I'm still enjoying the background reading for What a Tanker! and have just started reading this book on the US tank destroyer contribution to the campaigns in North Africa, Italy and NW Europe. I've got some 1/72nd scale Armourfast TD's in the kit pile for the Battle of the Bulge project and I'm looking forward to building them, especially as you can really go to town on the stowage and detailing. In WAT, I've found tank destroyers to be really effective but the downside is that they are comparatively weak in terms of armour, so shoot and scoot is definitely a good idea!
Your right about TDs being good in WaT. We still reminise about the little Marder that could. He took out three Shermans including a the Firefly to win the game whilst (predictably) the Jagdpanther got brewed up straight away....
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Pete.
I've not played WaT, but Hetzer blitzes on World of Tanks were so much fun ... especially when you had the BIG gun
ReplyDeleteTank destroyers are also pretty cool..No excuse needed to have a few!
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