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Originally Posted by Olefin
Actually three T-80's getting dusted while the M1 is still standing sounds just about right. In my first campaign I had an M1 - and ran up quite the count on enemy tanks, APC's and other vehicles, especially as the usual engagement was one on one except during our breakout.
M1 is a very tough tank to kill
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That was the expected kill ratio in a square fight if the balloon had gone up, 3-1 or 4-1.
The Soviets were rightly scared of the M1. We'd screwed around so badly on tank design for so many years. Well, more
doctrine than design, but even after we sat down and said "Yes, we need a main battle tank designed to kill other tanks and get hit and survive" we still couldn't get it right.
I think someone here posted that Creighton Abrams' first design criteria was "I want a
PzKpfw V that actually
works."
Aaanyway...
Yeah, it was a neat bit of gunslinging. Now that I've shaken the dust off of my combat system skills I really don't see what the big issue with vehicle combat in 1e is; it doesn't seem wonky to me. But I also like to play Hero System and 1e AD&D so who knows what lousy opinions about game systems I have!
