Just wondering...

[mikeo80]

Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer

Tangentially, I have an old TSR wargame here called Tractics which is skirmish-scale infantry and armor (and aircraft) combat rules. Mostly it's concerned with WWII era (and Korean) but as it was published in 1973 there is a section for "modern" weapons including both the M60A2 and the Sheridan and I'm not sure why but someone decided that the Sheridan was nuclear capable - per the rules its main gun can fire a nuclear artillery shell!

I think that mistake probably stems from the fact that there is (or was) a nuclear 155mm shell which had a W48 warhead. The M81E1 (the Sheridan's main gun) was a 152mm gun, so perhaps Dave Megarry or Gary Gygax made the assumption that there was an extant nuclear shell for it, too...

I am sure that the shades of former Sheridan tankers are GRATEFULL there was no nuke ability. Max range on the Mgm-51 was 2000 yards. To borrow from Heinlein's Starship Troopers, "No one wants to be bunkmates with a cosmic calamity"

My $0.02

Mike