AHC: Matilda II as the main British tank

Artaxerxes

Banned
I`m nor sure what in current desire is to kill and main as mnay Allied tankers as possible

Its felt that the allied commanders and civil service could have been much more efficient at killing large numbers of tankers and supplying poor quality tanks.

We can do so much better than they did.
 

Pangur

Donor
Its felt that the allied commanders and civil service could have been much more efficient at killing large numbers of tankers and supplying poor quality tanks.

We can do so much better than they did.

Yeah but God help us its not like as if they tried
 
Don't forget that there were only a few Matilda II in France. So, even if they had been fast and reliable, they'd still not afect the outcome...
Except that might just make the difference between an evacuation form Dunkirk, or one from Calais, and that would make a dramatic difference, not to the battle, but to the rest of the war.
 
Except that might just make the difference between an evacuation form Dunkirk, or one from Calais, and that would make a dramatic difference, not to the battle, but to the rest of the war.

As long as the germans had air superiority it wouldn't matter; Calais' harbour would be wrecked from the air, like Dunkerke's.
 
As long as the germans had air superiority it wouldn't matter; Calais' harbour would be wrecked from the air, like Dunkerke's.
Calais is also closer to the UK, so the RAF fighters have a shorter turn-around time, and more over-target time.
 
I`m nor sure what in current desire is to kill and main as mnay Allied tankers as possible

That's the spirit. Now let's forget the Matilda II (otherwise known as 'unreliable tank', or 'costly mistake', depending whose posts one reads) in any iteration, and field the known war-winning machines, like Convenanter, Centaur and Cavalier.
 
And this tank design - does it improve the chances of Frankforce achieving its mission had they been armed with it?

In fact had the entire Allied force replaced all of their tanks with it does it change anything - do the Germans still win?

1. No. 2. Yes.

Not hard to agree with your point here. This whole thread is a study in how technical details are obssesivly focused on and the more significant issues of tactics, doctrine, correct decisions, communication are misunderstood or ignored.

The Brits had a decent suite of equipment & weapons 1940-41. When they lost battles it was because of poor decisions, & tactics or combined ops skill. About all the German tanks of 1940-41 had going for them was a slightly higher reliability, & even that was more due to support organization than the machines themselves. The same goes for a number of other German weapons as well. But at the tactical & more importantly at the operational level they used what they had better & made a few more good decisions at the operational level.
 
No! No! No!
Scrap the Mathilda, and adopt the vehicle that more than any other embodies the spirit of the British army....
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the TOG!
 
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