Redefining canon for Shermans

Poll: What should Sherman canon be? You do not have permission to vote in this poll.
Armor 4 Shermans should be the new normal, backwards and forward.	15.38%	2	15.38%
Armor 4 Shermans unbalance things too much, leave them in "Specials".	7.69%	1	7.69%
Armor values should vary by time period. (Please specify in a reply.)	53.85%	7	53.85%
Armor 4 should be standard with armor 3 as an alternate.	15.38%	2	15.38%
Armor 3 should be standard with armor 4 as an alternate.	7.69%	1	7.69%
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Redefining canon for Shermans

08-21-2021, 02:56 AM,

plloyd1010 Offline

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Redefining canon for Shermans

Another systemic glitch may be coming up, this time with Sherman tanks. Are Shermans going going to have an armor of 4 from now on? After Belton's Bane, the suggestion floating around the forums gravitated toward replacing all Shermans with 4-armor versions. Then that sort of died out. Now, Black Panthers seems to revive that idea (though the M4/76 on the webpage is still a 3).

This is important to me because of how I would redo the Vassal counters and the September update is coming. Right now uparmored Shermans are in the Allied Specials extension. If 4-armored Shermans are the new normal, I should move them into the regular OOB extensions. If they are not the new standard, I should leave them where they are or make alternate versions within the counter (menu code).

I asked about this on the APL support page. I thought I would a poll here too.

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