Challenge: Largest Armoured Clash in 1937/39...

MacCaulay

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...you heard me. I'm looking at my PanzerBlitz and PanzerLeader counters here (kick ass wargame for those not fluent in 70s-boardgamese) and with the variants I'm kind of wondering what crazy thoughts could pop into people's minds about any large armoured clash in the pre-WWII period.

You're allowed to use some sort of handwavium with the politics if you must, that's fine.

At least one side has to have two or more armoured divisions. (I'm picking that since it seems a rather large amount by mid-30s standards)
 

MacCaulay

Banned
Really? Nothing? Come on, guys! I'm going to tighten the focus a little bit: it has to take place in continental Europe, or in northern Africa.
 
The only one I can think of was when the British Mobile Force deployed to Egypt as Italy invaded Abassyinia in 1936. But that would at best be 1 armoured division and I don't know what armour the Italians had to oppose it.
 
Not in Europe or Africa, but how about an Anglo-American war in which the Canadians manage to hold down a front line for some time? You said we could handwave the politics, after all... and if the US can't beat Canada early, it'll need to build up a tank corps to fend off any counterattacks.
 

MacCaulay

Banned
How about...Germans build up Panzergruppe Drohne in Spain to something like a small division, and the Italians and Spanish each put armoured regiments together into a loose division to attack Madrid in 1938 after Socialist France decides to throw it's weight in behind the Republicans?

So a French force with an International Brigade backing it breaks out of the north towards Madrid and there's a tank battle somewhere in Spain? Maybe?
 
Hmmmm, 1938 Sudet crisis doesn't end with Munich agreement but rather war and Soviets intervene on Czech side?

Hey, if we can have socialist France openly intervening in SCW why not Soviets being able to move across Poland? :rolleyes:
 
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