Continuing with the extra armoured vehicles for WW2 here we have an M3 Grant used by the British in the desert war. This model is once again from Perry Miniatures and features a cast resin hull with separate turret and guns for both. The turret did need a fair bit of filling to get it to fit into the hull without being too tight.
As with the other tanks it is once again a nice model and given it's large size should be a focal point on the battlefield.
As the V for Victory rules are mainly focused on the 44-45 European war there aren't any stats for the Grant so I've had to make some up. I'm slightly undecided on if the 75mm gun should be rated as a medium anti-tank gun or medium howitzer, but that can be tweaked as we do some play testing.
Here you can see how much taller the Grant is than the Panzer III and get an idea of how much larger it's cross-section is.
I've also completed a 25pdr for the Commonwealth forces with this being a Rubicon Models kit. This is a proper old fashioned kit with lots of parts. But the instructions are clear so whilst it took a while to build it all slotted together just fine.
I suspect this most likely end up as a scenario objective (like the DAK 88mm) so I left most of the crew as separate parts rather than mounting them on the guns base.
The Grant had a shorter barrel 75mm than the Sherman but did fire the same AP round. It might "feel" right for the 37mm top be the primary AT gun and the 75mm for infantry / defences.
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