Today its time to talk about a new vehicles for the Allied side in the game,

For the Americans the M18 Hellcat had a very interesting and untypical tank-building design. Actually it was a designer breach to a great extent. Yet it was the first American series-production tank with a new suspension and a low silhouette.

Immediatelly the crews felt in love with the M18, it had quality exploitation and required little service. If necessary a power-plant and transmission could be refitted in record times, also it delivered a cross-country constant high speed and its low silhouette added additional survivability in combat. The M18 Hellcat had succeeded quickly and successfully to take cover from artillery barrages and mobile scouts.

It was deployed in anti-tank battalions of tank and infantry divisions, nevertheless, as a tankdestroyer the M18 Hellcat soon reached its boundaries. Though during the stages of prototypes it was armed with a 76mm gun instead of a 37mm, it still was not capable of destroying all German tanks which had an enormously upgrade of their armors compared to their predecessors.

In order to increase the usefullness of the tank, the crews start to use a new tactic, they very famous "hit and run".

Some additional screenshots of the North Africa campaign:

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