Wallpapers Wednesday : Tide of Iron
© Fantasy Flight Games
Stylized illustration of a German Pzkpfw VI ‘Tiger I’ along with three other American war machines from the board game Tide of Iron published by Fantasy Flight Games.
During the course of identifying that unassuming looking truck in the wallpaper, I learnt something interesting which the other three vehicles - Medium Tank M4 Sherman, GMC CCKW-353 (Truck, Cargo, 2 1/2 Ton, 6×6) and the Light Tank M5 Stuart - have in common (other that they’re American, of course 
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Thanks to the might of American industry, all three vehicles were produced in mind-boggling quantities. The M4 Sherman was the most widely produced American tank with 48,966 manufactured in WWII. The Russian T-34, however has the distinction of being the most widely produced Allied tank with over 57,000 units (!) produced during the war.
General Motors built 562,750 CCKW trucks out of over 800,000 2 1/2 ton cargo trucks (other trucks in this category include the Studebaker US6 and International Harvester M-5H-6) fielded by American forces during WWII. More information on these 2 1/2 ton trucks can be found at olive-drab.com.
The M3/M5 Stuart was the most numerous Allied light tank with 22,710 M3 and M5s produced - see American armoured vehicle production data @ Wikipedia)
German tanks were produced in significantly lower quantities - only 1350 Tiger Is and a combined total of 50,439 tanks, assault guns and tank destroyers were manufactured during the war (Wikipedia)
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I tried to get into these types of games once, it was D&D, but looks like it plays the same as this…. anyhoooo I could not invest the time for it.
Blew my mind how in depth those games are.
I still like the figures tho’
Some of them are pretty cool.
Yep, I’m currently on a boardgame rulebook collecting spree and some of these board games look incredible - I like the figures for Operation Tannhauser also distributed by Fantasy Flight Games.
I don’t play them though, much prefer PC games since they’re faster to get into.