Great looking game. I too am a big fan of early war gaming, and have put on both 1940 French v. German and French v. Italian games.
One item of note, though. In multiple points in the AAR there is mention of the Panhard armored car engaging and suppressing one of the German AT guns with it's auto cannon.
But … the Panhard 178 (AMD 35) armored car didn't have an auto cannon.
It mounted an SA35 25mm cannon. This gun had a semi-automatic breachblock. You fired 1 round, it kicked out the empty cartridge and remained open waiting for you to put the next round in.
As it was a reasonably small cartridge, a good gunner/loader team could probably put out 5 shots in 10 seconds or less. But that is far from an auto cannon, which might fire a 5-shot burst in one or two seconds.
It had pretty good penetration for it's caliber and it's time. But it's destructive effect was little more than a big AT rifle. It punched small holes in armor. If there was something soft and squishy on the other side, it might do some squishing. If there was hard stuff on the other side it might have enough residual energy to break some stuff. If there wasn't something immediately behind the armor, all it did was make small holes.
I don't know if the AAR description comes from simple embellishment to add some "color" to the story, or it reflects how the rules played for this weapon. If the rules played this as an auto cannon, there's a bug in the system.
Just in case anyone wanted to know…
-Mark
(aka: Mk 1)
