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Awesome new releases!

M-ATVs are a definite. M-19 SPAA is a probable and even though I don't do WWII I may get one of the gunboats because they just look so cool. Excellent Job GHQ.

Paul

P.S.
What is the current Micro Bucks discount word?

av8rmongo wrote:Awesome new releases!

Indeed!

A real jackpot of new stuff. Nice pics up too, from the start.

The new PzIVf2 looks really good. I don't have cause for any, but it sure is tempting, even if just for target-practice for my Tunisia campaign Sherman M4A1s!

The BKA1125 looks really nice! I must have some. While I think the T-28 turret. is great for the early production, over the course of the war they were more commonly-built with T-34 turrets. I hope that I can swap turrets easily enough, as I always have extra T-34s available for kit-bashing. But I think GHQ missed an opportunity -- they could have (or still could?) packaged it with a choice of 2 turrets.

The Malaxa (UE) is a nice addition. Useful for my Romanians, and even for my French forces. German WW2 forces can use them too -- they were not uncommon in PAK units on the Eastern Front, and even Panzer Armee Afrika had some!

The M19 looks great! AIUI a few made it to ETO before the end of the war (although SPAA was not much needed by US forces by that time). Would have been a key piece of kit in any "Patton vs. Zhukov, 1945-47" scenarios, and is useful for Korea. If you have Pershings and Chaffees (like me!) you probably need some of these, too.

But I must question the listing for the BB Tsessarevitch. It says "Beautiful Design".
WTF, over?!?!!? I mean yeah, beautifully modelled perhaps. But that has to be one of the ugliest ships ever floated! Worth buying and painting up just for an "ugly duckling" display.
Beautiful design indeed. Who do you think you're kidding?Probably tell us Shermans are heavy tanks next ...

Yah, Malaxas, and 6 per pack is really good too with these tiny things.
But no mention of the trailers included?
edit on 7/20-I just looked at the listing and see that it now includes and shows trailers in the Malaxa pack. Whether this is an addition to the pack, or just a clarification in the listing I don't know; but-
Thank You,GHQ.

Those were standard issue with them; they couldn't haul diddle-squat without it.
Even part of the AT gun crews rode in them, and they carried fuel & supplies in them for the motor-cav units...
I hope we don't have to order them extra from the French pack...

edit-well,after days of searching I've found one brief reference to these being used by RO.as "tows" without the trailer;but not one photo of one "in service" that way to back it up.
(may not mean much;photos of them aren't too common exept in museums & captured vehicle parks...) Anyone else have any?

Hey-watch what you say about that French-designed Russian tub!
It's so ugly it's beautiful, and resulted in the almost equally "beautiful" Slava's.
Be nice if they included the old "fighting tops" to back-date them too...
I've got to admit-it's much the same reason I like the IJN so much...
(entirely "tongue in cheek", but I expect you know that)

The M19 will be useful for the India-Pakistan wars, the Pakistani army had a regiment of 18 of them in the 1965 war. Not sure if they actually saw combat though...

I can safely say for myself that a couple of packs of M-ATVs are going into my expenditure soon.

That is for sure. Might do a Jungle camo for it too.

Good job done on the detailing of the M-ATV from its picture in the catalog.

And I like that T-72 with ERA.

Looks a bit useful.

Wonder if GHQ would do different 'Styles' of ERA packs? I'm thinking of the 'wedge' grouping on the front of the turret, a bit like T-64s sometimes have.

Hmmm - extra bits in the pack maybe?

'Pimp my T-72' anybody?