Sgt.Squarehead

I'm guessing Warts 'n' all is on the mark, the Canadian RAM Cruiser Tank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_tank http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/canada/Ram_Cruiser_Tank.php http://www.mapleleafup.net/vehicles/cac/ram.html

Useful for cleaning large calibre tank guns, I guess, and if the rations ran low.....

In relation to the other Tiger thread, notice that both of the hits are to locations specified by those documents.....As I said there, the gunner knew what he was doing.

Let's be honest fella, the degree of synchronicity has been quite high throughout the design process.....Which is lucky really because as you know, I didn't have a clue where I was going at the start. All things considered I think it turned out OK.

This might be of interest: http://spioenkop.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/the-islamic-state-going-diy-122mm-d-30.html

The Soviet 85mm & 122mm tank guns are almost certainly what happened to it.....The Soviets had no time whatsoever for the Tiger and used captured examples as range targets to test their new toys.....While I believe this image is probably 121, I strongly suspect it also demonstrates the fate of 100.

In the link in my previous post there's an image of the Smolensk tanks deployed in the field at the time of their capture, so they were definitely reactivated.....I suspect they were little more than barricades in Berlin though. PS - I'd call this: & this: Pretty thorough verification of their involvement.

The excellent Beutepanzer site has a whole section on the Mk.V in WWII: http://beutepanzer.ru/Beutepanzer/uk/MK_V/Mk_V.htm It seems to suggest that the tanks seen in your image are in Smolensk, they were subsequently captured by the Germans and eventually ended up in the Battle of Berlin! http://talesanecdotesandtrivia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/estonian-vintage.html

I'll send you a pm when I dig it out.....Might be a awhile. Some applied Google-Fu will probably find you most of the same information.

For the Tiger I, these are the way to go:

Possibly too early for the 85mm gun, I'm going with the theory that the shot to the gun-sight was deliberate (6pdr gunners would do similar in NWE), as both of the visible hits are perfectly placed to penetrate a Tiger I and the hull and turret are not peppered with non-penetrating hits.....So whatever he was using, the gunner knew exactly what he was doing. It is my recollection that the high-velocity 57mm ZIS-2 Guns were reserved to deal with German heavies, hence my wider theory. The camo scheme of the Tiger in the picture is quite unique (I know for a fact that Dragon have kitted this vehicle, but sadly it's the one 1/72 Dragon Tiger I kit that I don't have).....So tracking it down shouldn't take me too long (I'll probably just ask over on ML TBH).

Oh yes.....Finally! The vehicle most likely to turn 'ISIS' into 'WASWAS'.

I'd like it more if you swapped all the Russians & Ukrainians for Head-Choppers, set it in the desert and called it CM:SF II.

We've come a long way from AVLBs gentlemen.....Maybe we should create a 'Tabletop Wargaming Nostalgia' thread?

Looks like a 57mm hit to me.....Could be 76mm, but I think not. Pretty sure the full story of this Tiger is recorded in a book somewhere, if it is I can probably find it.....Eventually.

I believe the image was taken in Cannes.

The Mk.Vs are real.....I've got a bunch more images of them but the books are too big for the scanner. These old tanks didn't do very much though, IIRC they ended up as part of a barricade.

Looking forward to it. I just finished a CM:A mission with a platoon on one side, and a couple of HQs & teams on the other.....It took ages to get it right.

Interesting article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/world/middleeast/mosul-iraq-isis.html Very much backs up Combatintman's earlier statements about the misemployment of CTS.....What I hadn't realised is that these were the very same guys who cleared up parts of Ramadi. Here's one for LLF:

Sounds hectic.....Strong current maybe?

Bersaglieri were good too.....I'd rate them somewhere around Regular/+1/High on average, with a good smattering of Veterans.

The final phase seems to have begun, CTS are still in there: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40317917 It also seems that CTS have managed to avoid the excesses currently attributed to the ERD and Shia militias.....This makes me very happy indeed. The Mosul battle seems to be quite hard on tanks, this is one seriously bashed looking Abrams: This T-55 has seen better days too (this shot is actually from a district just to the east of the territory covered in 'Ashsh al-Dababir'): Then, there's this: PS - @LongLeftFlank I think I just found my Cover-Shot for 'The Crusher'.

Blimey Ian, you've developed a virtual stutter! The crazy stuff was in various add-ons for the game, especially "Twilight-Nightmares" IIRC. It later spawned a pseudo-cyber-punk game, Dark Conspiracy: I've got that one too.

GDW have a history of doing such things, the one they totally missed was the IT revolution, very few saw that one coming TBH.....I blame the nerds! Still, not an AVLB, but closer: Probably the best picture of a T-95 that's currently out there.

@Mark_McLeod How did you get on with Baba-Amr? If low intensity warfare is of interest to you, I'm working on a very large H2H concept set in a country not entirely unlike Sudan.....I'm using a cut down version of the superb (but PC taxing) 'LJF Huge Rural' map. Al Shebab are the Red force, while Blue are the various local militias plus a company sized unit from a larger pro-government force, with a couple of regular army units to back them up. It's not something I can easily test myself (there's only one of me and I know about all the surprises), but it might be fun and it's certainly different.....Still working through the force balance and puzzling over VPs at the moment, I'd very much welcome welcome some input & feedback if the idea is of interest to you.