Reminding me a little bit of the "Battle of the River Plate" where the British ships are played by either the actual ships involved in the battle, or sister ships of those ships...while the Graf Spee is played by an American heavy cruiser that if actually there would have probably wiped the British out due to superior fire power in numbers over the original German armored cruiser (Panzerschiff).

The American heavy cruiser in question was the USS Salem built at the end of the war. While it "only" had 8 inch guns...there were automatic 8 inch guns and would simply overwhelm the British with weight of fire form her nine guns as oppose to the German's six 11" guns.

Specifically this is a reference to the 1965 film "Battle of the Bulge" where Spanish M47 Pattons were used to portray the King Tiger and the M24 Chaffee was used to portray the M4 Sherman.

The film was also shot outside of Madrid in Spain, so as I recall, there's no snow in the battle scenes.

Uh... I thought the regulations stated that if the design could be built with the materials available to the major World War 2 powers before August 15th, 1945 then the tank was permissible. Now I am unsure if the M47 falls under that qualification but I would point out that some post-war tanks like the British Centurion and Russian T-54 do.

IIRC, at the very least, the design (or is it prototype ?) of the tank have to be from before end of WW2. They also can't use materials not available from that period (of course, barring the crew safety measure to avoid casualties).

psnuker said:
Uh... I thought the regulations stated that if the design could be built with the materials available to the major World War 2 powers before August 15th, 1945 then the tank was permissible.

That's only half of it, as Seika notes the unit has to also have existed in blueprints, production or prototype form prior to that date. So while a Mark I Centurion or the Pershing would count, the Patton wouldn't.

Wait- does that mean that you could field a Ratte?

I didn't think this show could get much better, but somehow it just did.

Prototypes are admitted on the say so of the sport's federation committee. But even if allowed, the school that wanted one would have to have it fabricated somehow. For instance, Someone had to have built the Tiger(P) they use in Episode 10, as none of those survived the war (only one saw combat, the rest were converted to other uses).

Plus the student council was able to affort a Hetzer convertion kit. You don't go to a museum to get that sort of thing...so someone is building old tanks still in this world.