LAST EDITED ON Oct-12-18 AT 04:25 PM (EDT)
 
>On another note, and not really a tankette: I'd also like to put
>forward the Bob Semple tank, about which even Wikipedia puts tank in inverted commas that
>feel more piteous than sarcastic. It's got that clunky, homemade,
>jerry-built charm to it that to me is entirely precious. Certainly
>more charming than purpose-built machines.

Ah yes, the Bob Semple! The kind of tank you get when you lock the A-Team in a shed, assuming that in addition to the tractor and everything else you left in there, they also use the shed itself.

>I want a New Zealander tankery team which fields this sort of thing
>due to a total misunderstanding of how the rules work; not that
>they're bad tankers or cheap, but because they're under the impression
>that you have to build the tank yourself.

A Tankery squad deploying all-improvised/homebuilt equipment would be pretty funny, although one assumes they'd have to sign even more waivers than usual before they could ever get a team equipped with proper tanks to fight them. Let's see, in addition to the Bob Semple, what else could they have from history? The Russian NI and KhTZ-16 tractor tanks, of course. Maybe a platoon of Toyota Hilux technicals for scouting and fire support, although they're not really armored beyond being Toyotas and therefore indestructible. And, as a hole card for a special match that has building destruction as a win condition, Killdozer.

(Killdozer is unarmed, and very slow, so it must be escorted closely at all times, but boy can it knock buildings down. Just, uh... scout ahead to make sure they don't have basements first.)

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