I would like to know if anybody would take into consideration of making some of these tanks from World War Two.
Crusader Mk 2
A tank used in World War Two by the British
Fast and low profile, the A15 (Crusader II) was an evolution of the A13 with slightly better armor. It still bore the same QF.2pdr cannon that was used on many British tanks of the period … and which was quickly becoming obsolete against the up-armored Pz.IIIH’s and Pz.IVG’s that the German armed forces were beginning to field in numbers. The initial productions of the early version Crusader II included another crewman serving a bow-mounted machinegun in a weird sub turret at the left front; this was found to be cramped, poorly ventilated, and nearly impossible to escape in an emergency and so was generally removed. Having a heavier and more complex mantlet in addition to the sharp sloping of the turret armour gives the A15 or Crusader II better turret survivability than the A13 it replaces … however this is deceptive, it is still not sufficient to allow the Crusader II to take hits as enemy tanks (armed with 50mm and 75mm guns) can penetrate it. Cruiser type tanks remained fast and did improve in armour to some degree as time passed, but they were always best employed in ambush situations.
M3A3 Stuart
A tank used in World War Two by the French
The Light Tank M3 series, called the Stuart, was fast both on and off road, and carried the best 37mm anti-tank gun of the war, which combined small caliber with an extremely high muzzle velocity to produce an effective result. The M3A3 variants and the later M5A1 Stuarts were lend-leased to the Free French, and performed well as long they weren’t expected to engage the heavier German tanks at stand off positions. As the war progressed, the Stuart's small turret ring prevented the upgrades to a bigger gun that it needed to take on the newer, heavier enemy armor that was becoming commonplace.
Where numbers of these fast little tanks could be amassed, a popular tactic resembled an old-style cavalry charge. With speed and sheer audacity, a company of Stuarts would race straight through the parked ranks of heavier enemy armor and fire their high-powered small guns at close range, gaining entrys from the sides and rear they could not have made in ranged combat. The Stuarts would disappear before before the enemy could properly range their own guns.
PzKpfw III Ausf. F (Panzer III F)
A tank used in World War Two by national socialist Germany
As a result, Germany developed the first prototype vehicles of the Panzerkampfwagen III secretly, at first under the auspicious name of Mittlerer Traktor (Medium Tractor) and later officially as the Zugfuhrerwagen (Platoon-Leader Vehicle). The initial requirement specified a weight of approximately 10 tonnes and armament of a 20mm cannon. The Heereswaffenamt (Army Weapons Branch) evaluated several foreign tank designs and, with direct input from General Oswald Lutz and Heinz Guderian, decided to develop a vehicle that straddled the light and medium classes of tank.
The final specification, although termed a “light tank”, called for an approximately 15-tonne vehicle armed with a 37mm cannon. Guderian and Lutz agreed to the 37mm-cannon requirement as long as the turret ring would have sufficient diameter to allow for the recoil of a 50mm gun. This would turn out to be an extremely wise and inspired decision.
Information on these tanks history were found and written by World War Two Online Wikipedia.http://wiki.wwiionline.com/index.php/Main_Page
