Canadian Armour Passing Through Ortona, by Dr. Charles Fraser Comfort.
Have been working a wee bit on Alpha 8. Have fixed a minor rendering error in the main menu screen, and have changed for procedure for firing machine guns in the Fire MGs phase. Now you select which MG you want to fire from a list that shows you if one or more are unable to fire. Targets are selected according to the selected MG, so if you’re firing the co-ax, only targets in front of the turret will be selectable.
I’ve also added an “Abandon Tank” order that becomes available to all crewmen once one or more crewmen have become incapacitated or worse, or the tank has been incapacitated. Giving this order means in the next Action Phase your crew bails out, and although they skip the first wound roll of the bail-out procedure, they can still be wounded on their way back to friendly territory. The tank, however, is lost.
Image today is from Wikimedia Commons, Canadian Sherman IIIs (M4A2) rolling through Ortona, Italy, in late 1943.
