As a person who spends a lot of time looking at the cards from Tanks, I thought I'd write a little guide to the misprints that I'm aware of. I do this for a few reasons: first, so that people unfamiliar with some of the more confusing ones can have clarification, and second for simple trivia. This will cover all of the misprints I know of on the actual game cards, but NOT on other material such as OPS kits.
This guide isn't intended as a jab at the Tanks team, but only to entertain and inform.
See if you can spot the errors without peeking.
Without further ado, let's start things off with...
IS-2 Promotional Card
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This promo card was printed with four crew slots, while the regular card has only three
ISU-152 Promotional Card
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The promo 152 also fits one too many boys.
Achilles
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This rather famous misprint gave the Achilles Coordinated Fire,
a Russian-exclusive ability. You can read all about it and its controversy
here.
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The first Tank with the Recon ability, Recon's explanation contains the wrong Defence symbol. Card text for other cards uses smaller symbols for the four attributes (Initiative, Attack, Defence, and Damage Capacity) within small black circles. This card uses the same symbol as the attributes on tanks themselves, which is the wrong size. As a result, the lines of text in the Recon rule are slightly farther apart than they would normally be, because the symbol is too tall.
Honey
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The Honey has the same easy to miss error as the Puma, in that it uses the wrong Defence symbol for Recon's text. Interestingly though, the symbol in this case was vertically centered on the line so that it would not push the lines of text farther apart like on the Puma. This means that the person making the card noticed that there was something wrong with the symbol, but didn't quite catch what it was.
Stuart
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Continuing our run of early-war misprints (both axis and allies were still figuring things out) the Stuart of course contains the same by now familiar error:
the wrong symbol used to represent Defence. We have a hard time remembering the bonus Cavalry grants in our games, but it's not fair to blame it on this subtle misprint.
Lee Turret
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Although it's an Armour upgrade, the Lee Turret lacks the "THIS CARD MUST BE PLAYED FACE UP" text (with accompanying all-seeing eye) printed on the back of all other Armours. This isn't much of a problem however, as it's presently the only card in the game with a negative point cost.
Daring Driver
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Well it had to happen eventually: Daring Driver is the only card known (to me) printed with the wrong type (it's printed as an Upgrade, not a Crew!).
Erwin Rommel
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"a you may"
Erwin Rommel Promotional Card
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A you may indeed. Interestingly, this card changes the tense of the flavor text at the bottom from "is" to "was"
Which is more correct? You decide.
Panzer IV Short Promotional Card
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This panzer has an awful lot of base Defence for such a cheap tank!
That's all for now, hope you had fun playing!
Edited by user Wednesday, November 8, 2017 7:05:22 AM(UTC)
| Reason: Added Panzer IV short misprint