March 13, 2012 by dracs
Warlord have a new Brit tank to help you take down those German Panzers, the Achilles 17pdr SPG!
This tank will provide your British and Canadian armies with the fire power you need to deal with the Axis heavy tanks.
Do you think your forces could be in need of this tank?
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Nice looking tank.
That doesn’t look like an Allied design – can any history buffs confirm that’s a captured later mark of Panzer? It looks like the Panther to me – same sloped armour shape on the hull.
It’s a modified M10 tank destroyer, the only real difference being that it has the British 17pdr main gun. The chassis is the same as a Sherman tank.
From Wiki “The 17 pounder, Self-Propelled, Achilles was a British variant of the American M10 Tank destroyer armed with the powerful British Ordnance QF 17 pounder anti-tank gun in place of the standard 3″ (76.2 mm) Gun M7. ”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17pdr_SP_Achilles
Cheers for that, guess going by silhouette only gets you so far… 🙂
Any chance of some unboxings of the Bolt Action kits (but with an Imperial Guard/Ork in for scale :))
To clarify. The M4 chassis was used with a lightly armoured upper hull made of angled 3/4″ plate. This made it lighter and faster than a Sherman. The Americans called it the M10 when it was armed with a 76mm ATgun. When the British recieved the vehicle they already had plans to convert the turret to accept the 17pdr ATgun. The vehicle is designated an SPG (Self Propelled Gun) and was tasked with moving in to areas where armour was anticipated and fire at ranges up to 800 yards. It would then use it’s speed to relocate and take up… Read more »