Win action-packed Panzer sim Tank Squad

I spent yesterday evening in the company of Steam’s youngest armour game and during three hours of exciting Eastern Front action managed to engineer the downfall of numerous Tigers and Panzer IVs. If simcade Tank Squad was a T-34 or KV-1 sim, this trail of destruction would have been a source of considerable pride. As the game is played from an exclusively Axis perspective, you’ll understand why I tramped off to bed somewhat red-faced.

True, by the end of play session #1, I’d learned some valuable if fairly obvious lessons:

1. Give anti-tank ditches, bands of marauding Molotov throwers, and unsuppressed AT guns a wide berth.

2. Even Tigers need to be wary of T-34-76s.

3. Dismounted scouting, while sensible in certain situations, is suicidal in others.

4. Playing with enemy markers and the third-person camera deactivated is not for the faint of heart or feeble of eyesight.

By the time I embark on a review (expect something analytical this time next week) I’ll have tried my hand at campaigning and repairing, and will, I suspect, be perishing much less often on Tank Squad’s roomy maps. If all goes to plan I’ll also have helped three Cornerites acquire Tank Mechanic Simulator’s violent progeny.

DeGenerals have very kindly donated drei Tank Squad Steam activation codes to the Corner. To be in with a chance of winning one you need to correctly ID at least six of the WW2 AFVs pictured below.

Send your guesses to me (tim at tallyhocorner dot com) by midnight GMT, on Monday, and, assuming at least half a dozen of them are correct, your name will go into the hat for Tuesday’s prize draw. Correctly ID all nine angry houses and your name will be inserted twice.

As usual, no multiple entries or answers in the comments, please. Not heard anything by the end of May 13th? Either your tank identification skills weren’t up to snuff or – more likely – heartless random.org failed to pluck your name from the THC forage cap.