The French Rumble into WWI from Warlord With New Tank
February 1, 2015 by stvitusdancern
Seeing that a large portion of WWI was fought on French soil, it is only appropriate that Warlord Games releases some French Tanks.
This time they have released the St. Chamond Tank. This was a heavy tank weighing in at a mighty 23 tonnes and incredibly powered by a tiny 90hp motor! It also had a crew of 8 and one could think of it as a land battleship.
Unfortunately it had several design flaws other than the under-powered motor, such as short narrow tracks and weak armour. It is designs such as this and others that led to constant improvement in the evolution of the tank as the designers continuously looked to improve upon previous designs and models.
With all of this activity from Warlord will we be seeing a WWI version of Bolt Action Soon?
That is one strange looking tank. Then again it’s french design.
I always find it surprising they managed to go from this to the FT 17in the matter of few months ,which was the first turreted tank produced that saw active
I thought it was a new Forge World production.
@torros – interesting historical fact that I did not know.
So Bolt Action makes tanks for WWI, but do they make any troops? Or a rule book?
I would say there is more than enough WW1 in 20 and 28mm out there already