Did anyone notice that some one posted they have 500+ Shermans!??!?!?
Yes, I noticed... and no, it doesn't surprise me at all. Consider how many variants of the Sherman are modeled by GHQ alone! And if Gort has a few platoons of each variant, the total number could be rather large...
Of course, it is possible that a wee bit of exaggeration may be involved -- like "if I told you once, I told you a thousand times"... But, no, 500 of what could well be the most produced tank in history, with so many different variants, wouldn't surprise me at all.
And if one considers the old saw about "the more, the merrier" -- well, then, I'd say that's one happy army!!
Regards,
Tom Stockton
Actually it's 524 Shermans. Made up of 24 different variants.
I'm not quite sure how to take the commentary tho.
I build units in 1:1 scale. The combat echelons anyway, I have no use for hundreds of trucks on the game board. For US and UK/CW the minimum size is the company/squadron. Some units are built out to battalion/regiment. Over the past 30+ years I have acquired approx 4000 vehicles in this scale. The Shermans are a substantial, but not dominant, part of my collection. Absent the post war Israeli Shermans and the WW2 component rounds out to 500 vehicles (300 UK/CW and 200 US).
Besides, you can't really appreciate the concept of armoured mass until you've seen 200 Shermans charge across the countryside. Did it a couple of years back. 11th Armoured at Goodwood. Big terrain board, a dozen participants, and lots of orange and black yarn.
Gort wrote:
Besides, you can't really appreciate the concept of armoured mass until you've seen 200 Shermans charge across the countryside. ... Big terrain board, a dozen participants, and lots of orange and black yarn.
What is this? A DATING SERVICE or something? I would SURELY like an introduction to THIS guy!
(Kidding! I'm JUST KIDDING! But I sure DO like the idea. )
-Mark 1 Difficile est, saturam non scribere. "It is hard NOT to write satire." - Decimus Iunius Juvenalis, 1st Century AD
Jeez, and I didn't even mention the Combat Command I use to keep my US Shermans company : an Arm'd Inf Btn (oy! so many halftracks!), an Arm'd Cav Troop (M5 or M24 as required), and a TD Cpy (one set of recon elements, three sets of guns - M10, M18, or M36). Unit identity being determined by which Shermans make up the Arm'd Btn. Odds and ends attached as required, arty usually off board.
I was in 2/33 Armor when I was stationed in Germany in the 1980's. I actually had command of C Company in 1983 - 1984. Of course we were using M60A-3's at the time and not Shermans but I think it is cool that JB modeled my unit in its former incarnation.
Based on looks alone, I would pick the Panther as the GHQ model I like the best and they did a great job on that one. So many choices here for me as I have quite a soft spot for the T-34 as well, especially the '76 gun armed ones in various flavors. I also like the Pz III series and Tiger I as well - the boxy look has an appeal all its own.
The Crusader is a fine looking tank -- I've put together a model of the 22nd Armoured Brigade (at 1/5 scale) -- ready to smash the Ariete Division at Bir el Gubi! (Or at least that's the plan.)
i have 3 favorites that i hold dear to my heart.
1) The T-35. WHAT A BEAST WITH ALL OF THOSE TURRETS. I went so far as to actually purchase enough so that i have the exact number that were actually made, somewhere between 60 and 62.
2) The Tiger II. That beautiful Henschel Turret can make even the mightest Allied tank seem like a little PzIb!
3) KV-2. TURRET. MASSIVE. Enough said!
"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of
us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time"
- Lewis B. "Chesty" Puller, USMC
But I sure DO like the idea. 
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