Japanese Infantry Guns

[Huib Versloot]

Mr. Roadrunner,

In regards to American SP artillery. Some time back, I did see that we got a new unit (M12 Direct Fire) into the Matrix game. This unit has a much stronger hard attack value than your regular M12 SP gun. It was quite common for the U.S. army to employ them in direct fire missions against bunkers and heavy armor. It's my understanding that they were extremely effective when called on to do either or. The M12's 155mm gun solid AP shot projectile weighed an astonishing 100lbs. This type of shot didn't just give it the ability to penetrate a tanks armor. It was known to actually demolish the German tank. As I remember this new M12 direct Fire unit has a max strenth point value of 2. This enables them to effectively perform select direct fire missions without being too strong in the game.

In the role of direct fire the M12 was aimed, by looking through the empty barrel. Effective against pillboxes from short distance where the shell's trajectory was flat, but near impossible to hit tanks that way. I would be interested in an account of a tank hit by an M12 in combat since it seems very unlikely to have ever happened.