While doing my watchkeeping shift today at the local Military Museum, I read this article:
http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/vol10/no1/09-mantle%20zaporzan-eng.asp
...which has anecdotal evidence that the track pieces welded onto Shermans did work to prevent penetrations...albeit as a temporary measure, seeing as they were blown away warding off the hit. Maybe the way to represent this is SSR that has a Sherman start as a Jumbo, but have it get replaced by a regular one after surviving a hit by an Original TK >16 gun?
The same article also notes that placing a sandbag on the bottom of the fighting compartment dropped casualties to Teller mines.
Also has nice notes on dedicated FOO and the usefulness of smoke screens on the attack.
Part I of the article did not seem to have much in the way of juicy ASL-ish tidbits, but I only just skimmed it.
http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/vol10/no1/09-mantle%20zaporzan-eng.asp
...which has anecdotal evidence that the track pieces welded onto Shermans did work to prevent penetrations...albeit as a temporary measure, seeing as they were blown away warding off the hit. Maybe the way to represent this is SSR that has a Sherman start as a Jumbo, but have it get replaced by a regular one after surviving a hit by an Original TK >16 gun?
The same article also notes that placing a sandbag on the bottom of the fighting compartment dropped casualties to Teller mines.
Also has nice notes on dedicated FOO and the usefulness of smoke screens on the attack.
Part I of the article did not seem to have much in the way of juicy ASL-ish tidbits, but I only just skimmed it.