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.

[gila]

The autoblinda43 faster,better armored than its predecessors and with the 47mm gun probaly the best AC in the war IMO.

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by gila

The autoblinda43 faster,better armored than its predecessors and with the 47mm gun probaly the best AC in the war IMO.

Nope - nice bit of kit, but only equivalent to a Daimler really. The GE Puma/50L60 and the UK's AEC with the 6 pounder + APDS are probably the best armoured cars (for fighting stuff) IMHO.

Post war, the Saladin of course is my all-time favourite.

Andy

[Lt. Ketch]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

The GE Puma/50L60 and the UK's AEC with the 6 pounder + APDS are probably the best armoured cars (for fighting stuff) IMHO.
Andy

Amen! I love using the puma to shoot up US HT and Shermans from the back and side. Next time I run a Germ. camp. I'm upgrading that extra gun APC that comes in some of the mech platoons to a puma as soon as I can.