British FV215 Heavy Armoured Troop - 3 Tanks

Contains:

• 3x Highly Detailed Plastic FV215 Tanks

Description:
As tanks became heavier and increasingly well-armoured, commanders demanded heavier and heavier designs to counter them. For the British this meant the introduction of the Conqueror tank and then on to the even heavier FV215.

The FV215 adapted the Conquerors heavily armoured chassis and mounted a huge 183mm gun in a large boxy turret. The gun fired a massive High-explosive Squash Head (HESH) shell that weighed 72.5kg (160 lbs).

Explosive Shells
The HESH round worked by creating a shockwave on detonation that causes the targets armour to spall and send fragments flying around the interior of the tank. Unlike traditional kinetic energy rounds, these HESH rounds do not lose their effectiveness at longer ranges.

Big Shells
The size of the shells and the separate propellant cases made loading the 183mm gun difficult under even optimal circumstances and required two loaders to maintain a rate of fire of one round per 25-30 seconds.

Clash of Steel is based on an alternative history where the war in Europe finishes in 1944 with the surrender of Germany, but restarts just four years later in the face of Soviet aggression. Players take to the tabletop, fielding their chosen force in epic tank-on-tank combat using highly detailed multi-part plastic miniatures; battling over objectives in an attempt to control the battlefield and defeat their enemies!