Tank Destroyer lecture vidoes

A couple of weeks back I posted about the Tank Destroyer Lecture.   For the people that could not make the lecture here is the three part video of it. Enjoy.

M-10 rolling at of Ford plan.

Battle of Naseby. The 1970 movie Cromwell

This is for my buddy Anton.  This should inspire his upcoming campaign. Grab you beer and sit down, enjoy.

ECW miniature comparsion

Since my ECW army is made up of Warlords miniatures.  I have been thinking about rounding out my Army with some other manufacturers figures. I found this on facebook.  But lost who posted the picture, my bad.

M-48's in Vietnam

I claim no right to these picture. The picture are posted for educational purposes. Plus to remember the men in these picture who serviced and died in  Vietnam 50yrs ago.

Fighting in Hue

Tercios mounting bases.

If you haven't noticed my friend Anton is going to launch a new campaign for ECW period.
He has determine that large battles will be fought using Tercio and small skirmishes Pike man Lament will be used for those battles.  To help out the campaign I posting what the bases will look like for Tercios.

This napoleonic trooper must of passed his saving throw.

This is post by Erik Salvador.  HMM I wonder if he rolling double sixes?
A small, but interresting exhibition of Napoleonic uniforms there.
I call this one «saved by the bell-top shako»!!🤭An Austrian Officers Shako from the battle of Leipzig 1813. The owner apprently survived. I am sure that would leave most of us a bit shaken afterwards...

The Toyota War.. Chad vs Libya..

Okay I'm not crazy. This is a real war  Dec 16 1986 to Sep 11 1987.   The war Chad with is Toyota's. They kick the Libyans butts.  It was like the wild west except the Indians kick butt.  Maybe Rich Uncle Pat could gin up a mini skirmish with Toyota's

The Toyota War (Arabic: حرب تويوتا‎ Ḥarb Tūyūtā, French: Guerre des Toyota) or Great Toyota War^[9] was the last phase of the Chadian–Libyan conflict, which took place in 1987 in Northern Chad and on the Libyan–Chadian border. It takes its name from the Toyota pickup trucks used, primarily the Toyota Hilux and the Toyota Land Cruiser, to provide mobility for the Chadian troops as they fought against the Libyans.^[10] The 1987 war resulted in a heavy defeat for Libya, which, according to American sources, lost one tenth of its army, with 7,500 men killed and US$1.5 billion worth of military equipment destroyed or captured.^[11] Chadian losses were 1,000 men killed.^[8]

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Oxford University has an aerial study of English and Irish Hill forts.

Okay one can spend hours just looking at this amazing study. They are using satellite photos .





Link to article.

Link to Oxford study.

Orange dot indicates a Fort

Click on the dot for information.

Every wondered what a smooth bore cannon shot looked like?

I bet the majority of the  people think at during the Civil War the loader just tossed in a cannon ball.  Not really as the most of the shot was a shell.   The smooth bore was liked for is quick loading.  The exploding shell made up for it lack of accuracy.   Below is an original confederate shell.

Nice view of the Bormann fuze

 

Grosse Pointe Public library presents. Tank Destroyer in World War2

This will be Fred's second presentation.  His first one was on the Sherman in WW2.   In order to attend you must register with the library   Here:Tank Destroyers

US Army Tank destroyer

Need to share this with my fellow wargamers.  This is the information most of us miss.  Here is what companies made them during WW2.  The American cars companies where the back bone of the Tank Destroyers.   Let me know what you think about this chart.

Ford M-10s builrt in Highland Park,MI

Ford built V8 for the tanks

Lincoln built tank engines

Inside the Highland Park plant.