Other weird/obscure designs that might see use in the Cleghorn Stanley outfit:-

T13 B3: The tank-hunting tankette. Yes, really. It's from Belgium, and Cleghorn Stanley uses Allied tanks exclusively, so there's room for it on the docket. It used a 47mm indigenous Belgian AT gun to considerable effect against Panzers of all contemporaneous stripes, and its small size and manoeuvrability made it difficult to draw a bead on in the Ardennes forest. Of course, it's got sod-all armour, but such is the lot of the tankette. In Tankery matches that use large amounts of forested and other kinds of rough terrain, I think it'd make for a sterling addition to a lineup. Sure, that kind of armament was outmoded by the end of the War, but it's perfectly serviceable as an ambush weapon.

Cromwell VII Tulip: At first an adaptation to the well-known Sherman Firefly tank hunter (after a little inspiration from Canadian troops upgunning a Staghound armoured car), the Tulip system was so named for the resemblance of its payload to tulip flowers. The payload in question was RP-3 60lb air-to-ground rockets that had been mounted on brackets stuck to either side of the turret. The Firefly had two, but the Cromwell prototype had four of them, along with proper pointability rather than guesswork. Given the general levels of rocketry and similar pyromania on the Cleghorn Stanley squad, it seems fitting to give them some assault rockets rather than just jump jets. "Just" jump jets. What the hell even is this school. =]

M4A2 Sherman M17 Whizbang: Aside from the superlative name, there is much to recommend the M17 variant of the Sherman. It's a descendant of the much more famous Calliope system, in which an angry pipe organ is nailed to a tank turret and barfs rockets at the enemy. The M17 is smaller, having only 20 launch tubes, and has a much shorter range. The tradeoff is the use of 7.2" demolition rockets for extra up-blowing of stuff, as well as a fully armoured shroud for the launcher itself. Additionally, the launcher's direction of fire is controlled by the main gun, and has the same degree of traverse. I don't know just how legal such a system is in Tankery, but the idea of a fusillade of giant rockets just appeals to me on a base level, you know? And to the girls of Cleghorn Stanley, whose pyromania is beyond reproach.

Are these sensible entries into the Armoursport arsenal of a well-to-do British boarding school? Probably not. They're deeply satisfying ones, though, at least to me. Cleghorn Stanley's team, in my mind, wants to lean into the weird shit. Tankery is a fundamentally silly sport, and therefore they favour armour doctrine and battle tactics that vary from unconventional to certifiable, all in the service of putting on a better show. They go for close-range engagements with bombs on spikes and assault hedge-cutters because it's more fun, and that's more fun for everyone. And if they win? All the better. =]

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

Also I am unnecessarily proud of the reference in the school name. =]