You Can Never Have Too Many Tanks
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Tanks of the New Anglican Confederation
take on Panzers of the BUF |
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| The BUF flags clearly visible across the rear of the BUF panzers |
A bit of a change of pace. The What If question posed by a 'Very British Civil War (VBCW)' make any interesting starting point for a number of alternate history games. And a great excuse to mix up a number of pre war and early war forces. I particularly interested in mixing up a number of different tanks of different nations. There was a great deal of experimentation in tank design between the wars and it wasn't until the second world war did the designs crystallise into truly effective designs.
Most of the games of VBCW I have seen focus on a larger scales but even at the pre-war levels there were reasonable numbers of tanks were in service with the British army. And looking at parallels like the Spanish Civil war both the Russians and Germans happily supplied their respective sides. So it is not inconceivable that they would supply their respective allies in a VBCW. Likewise France might find that it would have to support one side or other to prevent another potentially hostile state on their borders.
So I have been thinking about large scale actions such as a raid on tank regiment base by several sides or tank regiments on different sides coming into conflict could have great potential for larger scale actions.
Bovington Tank Museum : Pre- War / Early War British Tanks
A few years ago, we went to Tankfest at Bovington Tank museum, which as the name suggests was a great day out for those interested in all things to do with tanks. With a number of great working displays throughout the day. Anyway it was a great opportunity to get some detailed photos.
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One of my favourites : Light Mark II.
Not a powerful tank by any standard but I like the idea
of these tanks acting like fast moving cavalry force.
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| Vickers Medium Mark II |
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| Close up of a Vickers Medium Mark II |
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| Close up of Vickers A1E1 Independent |
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| Close up of Vickers A1E1 Independent |
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| Another Light Mark II - I think! |
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| Rolls-Royce Armoured Car |
Vintage Reference Pictures
A quick trawl around for some relevant photos.
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| Vickers Medium Mark II being inspected |
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| Vickers Medium Mark II Tanks on masse |
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| An interesting heavier variant. |
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| Vickers A1E1 Independent |
One thing is for sure, and it's that of course you can never have too many tanks! I like your take on this, please give us more!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the many photos of the tanks in the museum, and for the historical photos. We have always been intrigued by the oldest forms that tanks took around the First World War. What era did the models on display at Bovington date back to? Is it a state museum or a private collection?
ReplyDeleteWe were struck by the fact that, during the WWI, the FIAT car company in Italy started producing tanks, and it is interesting to learn that Rolls-Royce did the same.
Bovington is the national tank museum (I believe it has largest collection of different armoured fighting vehicles in the world) based on the South coast of England. The vehicles date from the 1920s to the early 1940s.
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