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The impression I get from rubicon is that every single variant of the Sherman will be available in some way and all the parts would be interchangable so you could make those weirder variants and the bastardised bodge Jobs, sorry, field repairs.
How they accomplish this I don't know, but I'm very excited to find out.
We know that the M4A3 76mm is out in December (and that turret looks so much better) and I think we can safely assume that an M4A3 75mm/105mm would be out shortly after (as that's the more useful tank gaming wise) giving us two boxes like the T34-76/85. I like the idea of that as there's too much crammed into the current kit and it appears the new 76mm has crew.
From there, who knows how they'll do it (well I guess/hope rubicon do...), but expansion packs similar to the 250/251 half tracks would be cool with the main kit being the base kit (would work nicely for jumbo/easy 8, etc) or maybe as they said earlier they will have a Sprue with the base parts that are common to all Shermans and the have mark specific kits that have the correct front glacial plates, sides, exhausts, hatches, too plates, turrets, tracks, etc. Potentially we could have serval boxes if that was the case which gets me very happy.
I might make one tank with bits that would never have gone together just for the sake of annoying some people
This is probably the project I have got most excited about so far. More so than the greyhound! And maybe this opens it up for the various panzer marks as well?
