So glad they are doing Italians!!!

The North African campaign has always appealed to me...a tanker's war! Can't wait to see what Tanks plans to use for the Italian national special rule....and I have come up with stats for the Semovente and M14/41, so it will be fun to compare those to the official stats.

Awwww..who asked you ? :-)

You make a good point as the selection of vehicles in plastic likely wouldn't support a full faction. On the other hand, if they don't release them, that means we will be going almost six months with nothing new - US Desert (soon) followed by UK 8th which seems to be early 2018 for FoW.

I'm staying optimistic.

Could be that I am being overly optimistic; but, when I first read the article on the FOW site it was not too much of a leap to think that we probably would be seeing those plastic Italian units in Tanks eventually.

After all; the hardest part is making the molds, which will already be done for FOW. They already have the clamshells & they would only need to create & print the cards. Not to mention that at this point it would seem that the majority (if not all) of plastic armor kits are being offered in TANKS.

IF I am not mistaken; a lot of the Italian units ended up in German service after the Italians surrendered. IF I am in fact correct; then if nothing else, they could make them part of the German forces.

Gotta get me some Semovente's. (I just think they look so cool.) They also were not terrible as assault guns.

Next we could use some Churchills.

Hell Yeah!

On Italian numbers, I got a feeling that GF does not want to release anything breaking 10 pts. per tank threshold, see recent treatment of British and American Stuarts (which is great btw. as instead of copy-paste under a different flag, they gave a small nod towards history). So I'd expect that when/if Italianks will be released, they'll come with some flavoursome keyword bumping their cost (and capabilities) to some reasonable level.

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I made cards for several Italian tanks. I posted them on the Tanks variants page of the Boardgamegeeks forum. I did the Semovente and the Carro Armato.

I gave the Italian tanks my own trait, "Crack Shot", which allows them to reduce one of their opponent's defensive rolls by one. Essentially this allows a 6 to be reduced to a 5 which would prevent a block of a critical hit, or you could change a 4 to a 3 preventing a block of a regular hit. Since I gave each Italian tank only three offensive rolls this isn't a terribly powerful effect, but it is different than the other nationalities. I have heard that Italian tankers were pretty good, but had had pretty poor tanks, so "Crack Shot" seems like an OK idea to me.