AIW British Post War Tanks.

by David Myers
version 2, dated August 4, 2010
Some notes:
The unit values for the Comet were taken from the identical unit on the IMSTRAT board, in
Commonwealth Units page 5. The other unit AF and DF values were calculated using the Arvold
formulas and the data on this page (as of July 20, 2010): http://collinsj.tripod.com/protect.htm
which is Jack Collinss page of armor and penetration data, largely aimed at miniatures. 20
pounder data can also be found on the following page:
http://www.wwiivehicles.com/unitedkingdom/penetration-tables.asp. The L15 penetration value
is given in the Wikipedia article on armor piercing discarding sabot rounds (355mm RHA
@1000 meters). Tanks are not assumed to be firing APBC except in the case of the stock Comet,
Centurion (20 pdr) and Centurion Mark 11. The Chieftain Mks 5 and 9 are firing L15 and L23
ammo respectively. The Challenger is using L26 ammunition in these calculations. The
Challenger 2 is using L27 ammunition.
Unit movement factors were calculated in the usual way for AIW, which is to divide max road
speed by 5. The values were found in a variety of sources, but often in The Centurion Tank by
Bill Munro, and Chieftain by George Forty. Range factors are largely guesses, or based on
precedent. The one where the range is stated is the Chieftain Mark 5 shooting L15 ammunition,
which is given on page 58 of George Fortys book. Suggestions that longer ranges than 3000
meters are possible are given in references such as Richard M. Bohannons article Dragons
Roar: 1-37 Armor in the Battle of 73 Easting (Armor, May-June 1992), and Stephen Zalogas
Osprey book on the T-72. I suspect that a good WEC handling these shells would provide some
kind of lowered efficiencies past 3000 meters, much as Byron Hendersons alternate WEC steps
down attacks further than 1500 meters in the WW 2 era.
Fire control: prior to the addition of a ranging gun, fire by the Centurion in ranges of 1000
meters required 3 ranging shots (Munro, p74). This was eliminated by a ranging machine gun,
but this gun itself had a limited range. The full range of the Chieftain could not be exploited until
the addition of laser range finding in version Mark 3/3 of this tank (circa 1971-1972). Decade
specific UFTs and WECs probably should be used if these tanks are to be incorporated into
serious scenarios.
G attack reduction ratios
To the right of the Challenger DFs is a ratio. That is the ratio you need to multiply the AF of G
class weapons with in order to get a real attack value on this tank. These tanks have composite
Chobham armor, and is more resistant to shaped charge weapons than it is to kinetic energy
penetrators. This factor represents that increased resistance.