Flames Of War Roll Out Two Boxes Of WWII Shermans
October 10, 2014 by brennon
Flames of War have already released two rather awesome Sherman Tank boxed sets for you to pick up. The first is the M4A3 (Late) Platoon and the other, for this month, is the Sherman Armoured Platoon...
The M4A3 was meant to be a rather good improvement across the board when it came to tanks but it had one fatal flaw. The ammo used to catch fire, quite the problem for a tank loaded with high explosive shells. Thankfully the crews came up with 'wet' ammo racks and even added another hatch on the top of the tank so they could escape quicker. Sounds like more of a hazard than a help!
The Sherman Armoured Platoon on the other hand is a heavy hitting team of deadly armour. As well as the Shermans it also comes with Firefly variants matching up the two awesome tanks into a great team. The Firefly will begin pounding at the enemy tanks which quicker tanks flank them for a killing shot.
Tanks, tanks and more tanks for Flames of War then this month!
Nice – BF is adopting plastic at an accelerating rate. Kind of funny in a way as they were berating it not so long ago 🙂 I suppose we have PSC and some others to thank for the revolution.
Nice stufff, nice details…..
Shermans for everyone. Sanders High School from Girls und Panzer would be proud of these.
Great job with the UK platoon. I like how the kit gives you a choice to build either Fireflies or “vanilla” 75mm Shermans, allowing historical-fanatic players to build “historically accurate” UK style armoured troops. 🙂 (1 Firefly, I think, and four 75mm Shermans).
Also, I don’t have these yet, but FoW plastics are a great improvement over their resin and/or metal. These should be awesome.
Good to have a mix of types in a unit.
Yes, sadly, historically accurate troupes had only one Firefly. But, and counters are easy to “build”, I made some all Firefly five-tank platoon counters for one of my Goodwood replays and….wooooeeee. I though five easy eights packed a punch…