tbh

it was

100%

It was once you got the 20pdr on it

VC Firefly was decent engineering

WW2 British tanks are pretty shit

Sherman with a 17pdr

Not that shit

It was desperate and it worked like ass cause of the smoke cloud it kicked up

But the gun was needed

tho they called it a Universal, not an MBT 😉

we didnt have the 76mm at the time

Matilda was slow, but still gave the German's a shit ton of trouble.

so it was a good idea

Matildas are well armoured

but holy fuck it was slow

The matilda was such a strong tank for what it was used for

I think fireflys fucked off mostly in place of Achilles, Jacksons, and M4 76 shermans.

Oh and the comet.

North africa it had massive success

yeah

UK always had an aversion to APHE rounds for some reason.

Jacksons/Achilles along with all SPG/TDs are cheaper in general to produce

@soup dad iirc the qf 32pdr was meant for casemate tank destroyers

it would've never fit a turret ring

I think it was when they tested it, it was an APHE round on a 2pdr , and it was trash, so they assumed all types were trash.

They fucked removed the HE filler from our rounds .

and the short term Caernarvon

Fuckin knobheads.

and I think early models of the Conqueror

32pdr was a massive AA gun so it was pretty bad to fit in anything.

Decent at AT and amazing with HE rounds

A very american gun, tbh

lul

Don't the British still use HESH rounds?

Yes. Most of us do.

Or some varient of it.

HEAT is an HE round too, if your creative enough.

Good morning my guys

RIP rifled barrel though