General Liederkranz Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 I'm curious about something I hope better-informed grogs can help with . . in the board game Advanced Squad Leader, there's a halftrack variant called the SPW 251 sMG, which unlike the ordinary 251/1s carries two MG42s--there's the normal pintle mounted MG, and another, hull-mounted, MG-42 that the game gives extra firepower as an HMG. You can also dismount the pintle MG as a tripod-mounted MG-42. According to the ASL designers' notes, each PzGd company (gepanzert) had two in the HW platoon. As far as I can tell CM doesn't have this vehicle; instead you just get ordinary SPW 251/1s carrying infantry heavy MG teams. Accounting for different game mechanisms, the big remaining difference is there's no halftrack in CM with a hull-mounted MG42, which would be something useful to have if it existed. Does anyone know if this is an accidental or deliberate omission in CM, or a mistake by ASL (which is after all based on 30-year-old research)? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 I am far from any kind of expert but my searches only pulled up hits on that vehicle type in reference to ASL. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Liederkranz Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 1 hour ago, IanL said: I am far from any kind of expert but my searches only pulled up hits on that vehicle type in reference to ASL. That’s all I’ve been able to find online too. I don’t have any books on halftracks, but I’ve learned a lot about SPWs reading this forum! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Wenman Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 (edited) Chamberlain and Doyle do reference both with the 250 referred to Sd Kfz 250/1 ( s MG). No specific designation is given for the 251 In both cases the vehicles is identified as the carrier of the HMG group of an Armoured Infantry Det. For the 250 it is stated Crew 6. This version carried the support Halbgruppe with two MG34 in heavy field mountings. For the 251 Crew 11. Armament two sMG34, one MG34 or 42. Ammunition 2010 Difficult to determine whether these had different mounts for the MG from which the weapons could fire when mounted in the vehicles or whether they were just the carrier for the sMG teams P Edited October 21, 2018 by Pete Wenman 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Liederkranz Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 Thanks! This is helpful. Perhaps the ASL and CM designers simply interpreted this info, or info like it, in different ways. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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