Sprocket – Allied Italian Forces Pack

Italian Styled Fictional Tanks Pack

All credit goes to chills!

Foreword

This tank pack has three Italian styled fictional tanks designed by Italy during WW2 after they capitulated and switched over to the allies.

History

After their inauguration into the allied forces the Italian government had made a deal with the allied forces to produce armored fighting vehicles for the allies with resource and funding from the allied forces.

The reasoning behind this commissioned work from the allied forces was due to the fact that the allied forces (Mainly Britain and the United States) wanted to be able to use the resources that Italy had to offer and also needed more lighter vehicles to focus mainly on fighting infantry. Since the U.S and Britain’s homeland companies were already busy developing tanks for combat against other AFV’s both countries would use Italy’s companies to design vehicles that were light, mobile, and had multiple defensive armaments to assault lightly fortified positions so heavier more armored vehicles could be more focused on heavily fortified fronts.

Now of course at the time the allied forces had many light tanks to fulfill this role but many were not making it up to the allied forces requirements and the easiest way they could develop more light tanks without interrupting the development of other tanks already in the process they gave Italian vehicle industries certain requirements that needed to be met for a tank to be fielded. Doing this allowed production of tank not entirely meant for tank on tank combat but rather infantry fighting purposes without disturbing allied companies with tanks already being developed. This would also allow for the vehicles to be produced at a much faster rate as Italian vehicle companies didn’t have much of a workload since they ceased production of tanks to fight the allies with after their capitulation.

Vehicles

The Fortezza 29-30 is a medium tank with a design derived from the Italian M13/40 medium tank

• Is 29 tons.
• Can reach speeds of 40 Km/H forward and 30 Km/H reverse.
• Is armed with 4 7.62mm Breda machine guns 1 12.7mm Browning HMG and a 30mm Breda quick firing cannon.

Armor Values

Hull

Front:

• 55mm Upper Front Plate
• 50mm Upper Glacis
• 30mm Frontal Strip
• 50mm Lower Glacis

Sides:

• 55mm Upper/Lower Side

Back:

• Entirely 30mm

Turret

Front:

• 70mm Front
• 55mm Cheeks

Sides:

• 30mm

Back:

• 25mm

The Fortezza 22-37 is a light landship type tank with large similarity’s to french early war heavy tanks and this tank:

• Is 22 tons.
• Can reach speeds of 30 Km/h forward and in reverse.
• Is armed with 4 7.62mm Breda machine guns 1 12.7mm Browning HMG and a 37mm Breda quick firing cannon.

Armor Values

Hull

Front:

• 40mm Upper Front Plate
• 30mm Upper Glacis
• 25mm Front Strip
• 25mm Lower Glacis

Sides:

• 20mm Upper
• 15mm Lower

Back:

• Entirely 20mm

Turret

Front:

• 45mm Front
• 30mm Cheeks

Sides:

• 20mm

Back:

• 10mm

The Carro Armato Celere Aggressore M41-57 is a medium/heavy tank with a design derived from the Carro Armato Celere Sahariano M16-43 but unlike that tank this tank:

• Is 41 tons.
• Can reach speeds of 26 Km/h forward and 36 Km/h reverse.
• Is armed with 5 7.62mm Bred machine guns 1 12.7mm Browning HMG and a 57mm Breda semi stabilized gun which allows accurate fire at slow speeds.

Armor Values

Hull

Front

• 80mm Upper Front Plate
• 120mm Front Strip
• 35mm Lower Glacis

Sides:

• 50mm Upper
• 40mm Lower

Back:

• Entirely 30mm

Turret

Front:

• 105mm Front
• 75mm Cheeks

Sides:

• 20mm

Back

• 20mm

Download

The file will contain a, “Readme” note in it that will instruct you on how to put these into your game for you to use.

• Download

• If you’d like to put these vehicles in the the enemy spawn lists you can follow this guide.