20mm turreted halftrack mods x2 & marder x1

Do you have something for France for G40 that doesn’t use USSR pieces in Blue?

@panzerpainter:

This Marder has:

8 Hand ground shells, made from brass. My own resin cast fuel cans and spare tracks. Metal barrel with 3-piece heat-shrink tubing muzzle break. Paper utility racks on each side of superstructure. Spade shovel made from paper and brass. Flat-nosed shovel. Antannae made from fine brass wire. Radio. 2 crew. Folded-down rear gate. Tarp. Tent roll.

Very nice!

Crane made with brass rod and round & square brass tubing. Fixed superstructure is balsa. With my use and love of engineering in my game rules, heres a MUST HAVE for my Americans. Now I can get up behind my “Super-Pershing” and when it gets hit in the treads (since no frontal body shot can kill this freak) I can fix er up and manouver again in a couple turns.
  The sweet thing about these is that they carry a front mounted mortar on the hull. It can fire its own smokescreen to get close to patient, and fire again without interupting its repairs when the smoke starts to clear. I also dont need to locate a different unit to provide smoke cover.

I’m gonna have a game soon, with engineers galore. Demolitions men, construction crews, recovery vehicles, demolitions vehicles, rafts, bridging tanks and portable bridge sections, and a few amphibious craft. Thier mission will be to outsmart and outmanouver a superior armored company.
  The engineers will be able to make or remove obstacles and even construct bunkers during a prolonged battle.
  Of course this means lots of flamethrowers running around too (in haft-tracks).

After using my Sd251s and Sd234s I realized I needed a couple more, cheaper units, to throw into battle as “disposbale guns” that I didnt mind losing if they never got a shot off. I also got tired of my 75mm AT guns being too weak, and my 88 flaks being too easy to hit, so I made my fav gun, the low-profile 88mm high-velocity AT gun by adding a nashorn gun to the base of a 75mm gun. I included a 75mm gun in the pic for comparison to my new 88. No worries, the Nashorn which lost its gun to make this, was put to good use - it became a Hummel.
  I was short on 75mm guns too, so 1 of these RSO’s is short a gun yet, to be made and added later.
  I made the RSOs by chopping Marders down to just the treads, and enough of the front and back hull to hold them together. Clear plastic (cut from a football card protector and sanded so glue would work on it) is the base for the superstructure, and provides the surface to mount the gun on. Balso is what the superstructure is made from, and paper is used extensively in it, especially to makes the hull sides smooth. Brass is used for the drivers seat. When I used my reference pics I noticed thier is stuff on the sides of these, not sure if it is loose legs for the guns, or some form of apparatus for folding the sdies of the vehicle down. But in either case, I just used some pieces from old model ships that gave an approximate look, and they are not 100% accurate. I just didnt like the completely flat sides I had, and had to add on something.

While my German army has 2 hunting tigers, 2 KTs, 2 Elephants, 4 Tiger Is, 6 Panthers, 3 Jagd Panthers, 2 Panther MKIIs, etc, etc, etc, the Sd251s are the crux of my German army. In my armor rules, each Sd251 can carry 2 troops. Versions with 37mm, 75mm, and mortars can still carry 1 troop. This makes them able to also tow an artillery piece with its crew, or to carry a superbly armed panzer grenadier.
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I line them up and on my 1st turn all the mortars and 75mm short guns fire smoke (which lasts for 3 turns). All the other Sd251s take off full speed. Blinded by a continous line of smoke right in front of them, the enemy is helpless to stop these halftracks from racing halfway across the battlefield and setting up thier 75mm AT field pieces and a few 88mm AT guns as well. When the smoke clears, the enemy is faced with a line of artillery all in critical killing range, and a solid line of halftracks charging them - all which carry troops or thier own AT guns. The enemy is overwhelmed by both numbers and the tough choice of picking off the halftracks or the guns.

Not to worry, it wasnt taken as a negative. Over in the “other” forums “scale” is kind of an issue. And an issue that a lot can not agree on.

Looks good, heluvalot better than I could do.

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