I don’t know much about the 25-pounder, but as regards the famed German 88: it was excellent in both its original role as an anti-aircraft weapon and in its later additional role as an anti-tank gun, but I’m not sure how well it would work as “traditional artillery”. Anti-tank guns and anti-aircraft guns are both intended to work as direct-fire weapons, which basically means shooting in a straight line at a target you can see (at virtually no elevation for an anti-tank gun and at a very high elevation for an anti-aircraft gun). The 88’s high muzzle velocity was well suited to both jobs. Field artillery and divisional heavy artillery, on the other hand, are often called upon to deliver indirect fire: plunging fire against targets which can’t be seen (a classic example being WWI artillery barrages). This requires lower muzzle velocity and different sighting mechanisms than the 88 had.
Mk III Valentine vs Panzer III
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The condition we are dealing with:
The Mk III Valentine vs Panzer III Face off is in the Deserts of Africa.
-Tons of Sand
-You choose your Tank and may Upgrade it with Parts available till April 1943.
-Set up and explain your way of engagement.
-No support.
-Panzer III is only available to Panzer III Sonder Ausf. JGood Luck Commander!
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The IIIJ has a 50mm L60. I would take that against the Valentine any day.
Might need to hit it in flank, but with the extra 10MPH I would hope I could manoeuvre around it, if my first shell(unluckily) bounced off the frontal armour.
Its puny 2 Pounder would not bother me much I suspect.
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