Tanks & A Motorised Platoon Ready For FoW Action
October 31, 2013 by brennon
Flames of War has more to come as the beginning of November begins to roll around. First up let's take a look at some tanks with the Sho't and AMX rolling to provide some armoured support.
The Sho't might sound like a name given to a tank from a sci-fi background but it's actually the code name given to the Centurion tanks that ended up in the employ of the Israelis. They were viewed at first as unreliable but this turned out to be due to the way they were maintained.
The AMX is a tank supplied to Israel by the French and is based on the Sherman design with a gun that was as powerful as that of a Panther. It played more of a reconnaissance role during the conflict.
If you'd like to give your army a lived in feeling then the Halftrack Stowage set might be good for helping with that. However to keep things themed on their recent theater of war they have tailored it to be specific to an Israeli kit. I'm sure bags are bags however and they would work on any vehicle.
If you want some infantry support to help your tanks then you might want to take a look at the Ch'ir Mamochan Motorised Platoon. This heavy duty squad comes with mortars, anti-tank weaponry and machine guns for dealing with anyone who might try and pop up to attack your position.
That's a fairly good selection for this weekend and the next!
Wow Flames of War is rather gutsy doing a game around such a hotly divided topic as the middle east. Good for them 🙂
Kit bags on the side of a vehicle are a very bad idea, and therefore you almost never see it. But every junior officer, it seems, gets it into their head at least once that rucksacks should hang from the side of the APC to save room inside, and you can’t tell them otherwise. One ‘crash move’ later, after you’ve torn through underbrush and clipped the side of a building, you’ve got kit stretched out across the landscape for 5 km lol.
I guess miniatures sculptors need to learn that lesson too lol.
I wonder if they will ever make rules for the AMX, Sherman hybrid Its one funky looking tank…
I Picked up a copy of Wargames Illustrated at the weekend and it contained a booklette called Fate of a Nation with the stat lines for all the tanks/ infantry for the 6 day war in it. Hope this helps.
Oh I know about Fate of Nation…. Im kinda up on FoW stuff. I was more thinking of future projects,,,,
Here is the tank look out for conversions from yours truly later:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/M4A4-AMX-13-latrun-2.jpg
sorry misunderstood coz im not upon FoW 🙂 will look forward to some crazy tank conversions