How about a real wild card and have an American unit either encounter or capture a FV 4101 Charioteer tank destroyer from the Finns? They still had 38 of them in usable storage until 2007 in the real world.

You could easily see them being pulled out of storage and put into the line. Definitely would be something unique for them to come up against. And while a M1 would make easy meat of it I would hate to be in a Bradley or LAV25 and run into one of them and its 84mm anti-tank gun.

Could also see them in the hands of marauders in Finland or Norway as well for players who have campaigns in those areas

How about the Daimler Dingo/Ford Lynx as a vehicle for your group to encounter? There are a ton of them that even today in 2014 are still being operated by private collectors. They made such great recon vehicles that they werent replaced in the British Army till well into the 1950's. And they would be perfect vehicles for someone like New America, a marauder group or one of the breakaway armies/marauder groups in the UK to be operating.

Not sure if Paul ever worked up stats for it but running into one would be a real possibility in the UK, Canada or the US given how many were in collectors hands.

Even before the cold war ended it seems like every other medium-sized town had a Cadillac-Gage V100 or V150; the "RV" the LAPD uses in Die Hard is an M3/M5 Scout car (making the ATGM the bad guys used on it - on its top deck no less! - entirely overkill).

Something else to consider.

The assorted vehicles in stores at the various depots in the US.

Remember, a lot of these depots service vehicles from other nations as well.

And then there is storage. The DRMO process is long and slow. For game play, we could probably toss in some old M3 Halftracks being found.

And if one can get a depot, you have the ability with machineshops, tools, spares, schematics and most likely local talent (since most towns in the vicinity have a large portion of their people working there) to build any form of vehicle that that place would of serviced.

Something eles to ponder

Would European Defence companies relocate certian plants to the US or Canada, so they could manufacture items away front line atttacks and bombing, if so you might see european vehciles around ports, and rail hubs

The issue is getting those plants going and recruiting the talent. Starting from the ground up could take a lot of time. Even retooling and existing factory before everything goes up.

And also, the fact that talent, resources to build the factory and the materials to turn out their products would most likely go to the host country first.

"It's a mother beautiful tank!"
 

This could be its own fun, with players falling on a cache of say 3 or 4 tigers or panthers... and then spend several hours of excitement trying to get them started, or find anything useful that can be done with them at all.

"It's a piece of junk!"
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