Taking a break from indexing a book for a moment...

I've got some ideas for upping our game at Aquino this year (more developed than my last post on the subject).

We have enough tanks of various types to not just do a general battle, but actual historical scenarios from WW2.  So, I've got three initial scenario ideas (two inspired by Fury and one inspired by Reid's book on Operation Totalize, No Holding Back):

1. Tiger ambush (requires at least 1 Tiger and 5 Western Allied/Soviet tanks). Fury depicts a German ambush on an armoured column, but gets it wrong.  Here, we show how it's done right: the Tiger takes out the first tank in the line, then the last, and then the middle tanks.

2. Tiger hunt (requires 1 Tiger and 5 Western Allied tanks).  The opposite of scenario #1 - five Shermans (or Churchills, etc.) find and manoeuvre around a Tiger tank to kill it.

3. Killing Michael Wittmann (requires a small force of Tigers and Panzers, and two small forces of Western Allied tanks).  A re-enactment of the ambush that killed Michael Wittmann during Operation Totalize.

There are probably other scenarios that come to mind.  We'd probably also want somebody to serve as an announcer giving commentary as they are acted out.

The thought occurs that it may be best to do these scenarios without the IR receivers, just to avoid accidental tank hits when tanks are in formation.

And, that's my thought, for what it is worth...