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Re: Panzerkampfwagen III & IV Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #50 on: October 02, 2023, 01:52:02 AM »
Apart from a broader scenario whereby Germany is more successful/fights longer and thus either exports weapons or has more allies in Africa, perhaps the best scenarios I could see would be perhaps before the surrender/collapse in Tunisia, Germany ranges to get some Hummels to Nth Africa which are then captured and conceivable eventually end up in local use - say with Tunisia, Morocco or even Libya?

Or perhaps more are sent to the likes of Syria which then potentially offloads them further to others.  The problem with this or the earlier scenario would presumably be access to spares/ammunition at some point...I would think.

I suppose an even more radical solution might be if Germany somehow retained/reclaimed its African colonies (see below) and thus had Wehrmacht and/or allied forces there which thus used such equipment.  That raises potentially even more interesting scenarios and opportunities.

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Re: Panzerkampfwagen III & IV Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #51 on: October 02, 2023, 03:01:44 AM »
Or double-down on the whole "March to Baghdad, 1944" theme
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=782.msg186340#msg186340

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Re: Panzerkampfwagen III & IV Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #52 on: January 14, 2024, 03:06:29 AM »
Captured Mk IIIs






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Re: Panzerkampfwagen III & IV Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #53 on: January 14, 2024, 03:10:34 AM »
I like the idea of one or more of these being captured and sent to Australia to provide a different basis for a local tank production.
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Re: Panzerkampfwagen III & IV Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #54 on: January 14, 2024, 07:10:01 PM »
Aberdeen Ordnance Museum use to have scads of period publications on how-to-operate captured Nazi weapons (this actually came into play when US units in the Italian mountains were difficult to resupply and it was easier to just turn MG34s and the like against their former owners).

I forget where I picked up on the breadcrumbs, but someone related playing on Panzer Mk IIIs at an East Coast steelmill not far from a port city. This goes towards your notion of Australian-copied Mk IIIs and whether it'd been more economically feasible to set up rebuild facilities in Europe rather than starting from the ground up. Fodder for a couple of WIFF builds, fo' sho'.

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Re: Panzerkampfwagen III & IV Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #56 on: February 25, 2024, 10:57:13 AM »
 :smiley:
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