Little used but great weapons?

[Lt. Ketch]

Originally Posted by Mobryan

Ok, a little thread necromancy here

For close in battles, I've fallen in love with the Russian KV-8s, the ones with sabot ammo for the 47mm main gun, and the FT. I had a defend against late war Romanians, and put a 3 tank platoon of KV-8s into a small hilltop grove of trees, they ate everything, and belched fire. I admit, it was the Romanians, but the 47mm was a deathray against anything they fielded, and I think the sabot ammo would have rung a few German bells, too.
Matt

I used the KV-8 (or an eariler version of it) in a Stalingrad battle and it came in very, very handy. In addition to the good armour and flame thrower they have more ammo for the flamer (20 as opposed to 4)and the 45mm is goog enough for most of the medium tanks.

I've fallen in love with the Russian 57mm AT pop-gun. Cheap, mobile (movement of 1), accurate, and good enough for most German armour. Everybody probably knows this, it's just new to me.