[Rules] T-34A/B/C? And T-34/57? And ZIS-30 57mm SPG?

[larry marak]

Hi again. I come to you with a couple of questions on the workhorse of the Red Army.

1) T-34A/B/C?

In the earlier releases of the system, every T-34 depicted by the various countersheets was a "T-34A":



Usually, the T-34A designation corresponded to the T-34 M1940 with the shorter L-11 76.2mm gun. But there were not many of these, and production had already switched at the start of the war to the M1941 model, which sported a longer, more powerful F-34 gun. But somehow every early T-34 in "Eastern Front" is depicted with a T-34A. Even those with Katukov's 4th Tank Brigade, which were new M1941's from the Stalingrad Tractor Factory with the F-34 gun.

Later models with the 76.2mm gun were represented with the T-34C model, which I assume is the three-man turret, Kurk-era M1943:



It has a better armor and especially a longer range (F-34 gun) than the "T-34A".

Only recently, with the appearance of "Kursk South Flank" and "Burning Tigers" IIRRC, the intermediate "T-34B" model has appeared:



It has the early model armor mated with the later long-range gun ("5-6" instead of "5-5"). I assume this counter portrays the M1941/1942 models that were the majority of T-34's seen in combat during the first half of the Eastern Campaign (including Barbarossa or at least from the Battle for Moscow on). And, if my assumptions are correct, that would mean a lot of the "Eastern Front" and other early war modules should have these "T-34B" instead of the "T-34A".

Is that correct?

Comerade Zhukov, from Heroes onward, the T-34/76 A and T-34/76 B have been in the system.  They were originally misprinted as T-34 and T-34A respectively.  The very first PG game extended all the way to Kursk.