Looks like you both safe so far It may be the New Years Holiday, but I haven't seen any of those slash and burn responses we use to get about which was the better tank. We have Tamiyas, Bandais, HL's, and Trumpeters battling on our field. As long as it can play nice with the Tamiya Battle System, it is welcome. We actually have had a few people new to the hobby come out just to run their armor on the terrain between battles. There is even a modified 21st Century Halftrack and a couple of scratch built armored cars we hope to see in the new year.

bhop73 - there is talk of a battle sys that might drop into a HL coming out of Taiwan next year. A member of our club, and forum poster bullyhys, has modified his HL Tiger to fight it out using the battle circuit shown on the Tankhobby web page.

Quite a few of our club members, including myself, are interested in HL Panzer III. If HL was to come out with a Sherman with the older VVSS suspension and narrow tracks, and it actually held up, there would also be a lot of interest from both HL and Tamiya drivers. It seems to me that HL has been sticking with the easier torsion bar suspensions, and staying away from the bogie type of the Sherman and Panzer IV. HL took a bad turn with the 'PanTiger', forcing a Panther's narrow hull onto the Tiger I's wide frame. NOT EVEN CLOSE. They seem to have gotten the message, and the Panzer III appears to be a respectable model.

In the end it come down to having fun. If you are the only person in your area with a tank, and you enjoy driving it around, I'm not going to argue with that.

Kevin O'C
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