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Tanked June 11th, 2008 05:38 AM
17 pounder
 
Is the 17 pounder AT piece already in-game? If not will it be included in the next update and will we have APDS as a selectable ammo type?

Captain Pyjama Shark June 11th, 2008 05:43 AM
Re: 17 pounder
 
17 pounders weren't used in North Africa, they were first used in Italy. Might be in the Normandy patch, though.

General_Henry June 11th, 2008 05:52 AM
Re: 17 pounder
 
death to axis tankers :(

Tanked June 11th, 2008 06:00 AM
Re: 17 pounder
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by General_Henry (Post 4380973)
death to axis tankers :(
Yay! ;)

Quote:
Originally Posted by Captain Pajama Shark (Post 4380964)
17 pounders weren't used in North Africa, they were first used in Italy. Might be in the Normandy patch, though.
Ah yes you're correct, I thought they were used at the end of the North African campaign but they first saw action in Feb 1943 in Italy. Ah well, will just have to wait to give those Tigers some 17 pounder APDS love. =p

General_Henry June 11th, 2008 06:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Tanked (Post 4380983)
Yay! ;)
noooo i am too scared of even just a 6 pdr. but hopefully 17 pdr got lower reload rate and is less deadly that way :p...


but i think it would be fair, you got 17 pdr, we got Pak 40

LIGHTNING [NL] June 11th, 2008 06:24 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tanked (Post 4380983)
they first saw action in Feb 1943 in Italy.
The first allies landed in Sicily in July 1943. :p

Tanked June 11th, 2008 07:02 AM
Re: 17 pounder
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by LIGHTNING [NL] (Post 4381001)
The first allies landed in Sicily in July 1943. :p
Correct, I misread the wikipedia page on the 17 pounder, however my initial assumption that they were used in North Africa was kind of correct, from the Wikipedia page:

Quote:
A prototype production line was set up that spring, and with the appearance of Tiger tanks in North Africa, the first 100 prototype 17-pdr anti-tank guns were quickly sent off to help counter this new threat. So great was the rush that they were sent before proper carriages had been developed, and the guns had to be mounted in the carriages of 25-pounder gun-howitzers. These early weapons were known as 25/17-pounders and given the codename Pheasant. They first saw action in February 1943.

Kubador June 11th, 2008 07:10 AM
Re: 17 pounder
 
Sometimes wkipedia lies.

Tanked June 11th, 2008 07:14 AM
Re: 17 pounder
 
So is the above quote incorrect? Were the 25/17-pounders never used in North Africa?

Kubador June 11th, 2008 07:18 AM
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I don't know that... We'll have to wait till vM wakes up.


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