Comments on: Tank Chats with David Fletcher: A13

By: Elgbert

Elgbert — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 16:13:22 +0000

Manually aimed gun (with shoulder pads)… oh dear! :D

By: Duncan Hamilton

Duncan Hamilton — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 22:30:37 +0000

That particular tank was the commanding officer’s of The Queen’s Bays. They were sent in to attack dug in AT guns at the woods near Huppy, accompanied by a couple of A9 Cruiser CS and two troops of Vickers Mk.VI. Predictably it didn’t go too well as the hidden German AT guns shredded them.

The Bays had the tradition of naming their tanks after Grand National winners. I’ve long forgotten the name of this tank, but there’s a much better photo of it, and others involved at Huppy if you search the IWM achives online;

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=Huppy&submit=&items_per_page=10

By: Madner Kami

Madner Kami — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 19:25:53 +0000

Nice guy and also so very british :)

I really had to laugh hard, as he said “It’s the best tank we had in 1940″. Poor, poor Tommies. I mean Pz III and IV were already borderline useless in their configuration during the Fall of France, but imagining to be a british tanker and having to use this… Oh me, oh my… At least it works within it’s tier ingame…

By: Bob_Mackenzie

Bob_Mackenzie — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:01:06 +0000

If you can get them his three vols on British tank development are a must

Mechanised Force
The Great Tank Scandal
Universal Tank

The Osprey vols he has done are good too – but a bit short

By: Elgbert

Elgbert — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:33:17 +0000

+1
History Channel, Discovery…rubbish.

By: Elgbert

Elgbert — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:32:03 +0000

Maybe it was one on the vehicles left at Dunkerque?

By: Balc0ra

Balc0ra — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:30:52 +0000

David Fletcher has worked with tank history more and longer then most. If he says it is so. Its def so. His word is law. Its not without reason that when Discovery, BBC and National Geographic is making a military documentary with tanks in em… There is a 99% chance he is in it and they called him to talk about it. Cus they know he knows his shit.

By: Elgbert

Elgbert — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:30:41 +0000

Yes, the think tank panel was great! :)
Really hoping WG could do something like that again, all in all a excellent panel the first time around, perhaps hard to top it, actually kinda surprising they had no Russians there (then again I guess WGUS was the organizer), so there was little talk about Soviet tanks (then again Zaloga could have covered that more, if needed).
Especially David Fletcher and Kenneth Estes did make a good impression on me, both grandfather types I could have listened more to :)

Definitely gonna subscribe to these, Fletcher has a great style, so much knowledge readily available, while at the same time he’s not pulling punches; if a tank was rubbish, he says so.

Thanks for the tip!

By: Balc0ra

Balc0ra — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:28:10 +0000

I don’t mind the fact that Cutlands movies are 100% scripted and read of a board behind the camera since his eyes never look at the lens. Its like the C&C movies back in the day. None of em look at the camera either as they read of the board behind it. But yeah, he waves his arms around constantly. And its freaking annoying.

By: Elgbert

Elgbert — Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:23:21 +0000

Agreed, its the best output from WG EU when it comes to videos…but that’s not saying much.
Compared to the Chieftain’s Hatch, the Challenger is very meh.