M8 Scott

2023-02-27T08:05:18Z

2601:1C0:5000:CFF0:D8E0:EDE:E68C:BEF2: It's a 75mm howitzer! that aint .38

{{Topquote|Peace won by compromise is usually a short lived achievement|Winfield Scott}}
[[File:M8 Scott.png|thumb|Snub-nosed]]
[[wikipedia:The Twilight Zone| Imagine if you will]], the stereotypical WW2 American soldier.
<br>[[Squat|Now imagine him as a midget]].</br>
Now imagine him running at 35 mph, up to the nearest [[Panther|Aryan]] [[Tiger|Germanic adonis]] and capping them right in the knee with a magnum.

That is the '''M8 Scott HMC''', basically a 75mm howitzer mounted on the fastest light tank chassis the Americans could produce and featured as a unit available for US forces in [[Flames of War]]. The M8 can serve in its intended role as an infantry support gun, or be used as an anti-tank option for direct fire.
==Mid War==
[[File:M8 Scott Statcard.jpg|thumb|left|The stats]]
==Late War==
==IRL==
[[File:M8 Scotty.jpg|thumb|Call me cute, I dare you]]
The M8 was created from a need for a close-support light tank, early experiments with an M3 Grant Chassis were abandoned when it was found that an M116 Howitzer combined with an M3 Stuart chassis created a small, fast, and sufficiently powerful howitzer that could assault enemy positions and provide adequate support to the infantry. With '''-20°''' of gun depression, the M8 could literally roll over the top of a hill, and [[Creed|surprise the enemy with sudden 75mm explosive shells]] from a safe position.
The M8 proved to be a highly adaptable and frankly long-lived machine, serving all the way to the Yugoslavian wars 49 years later with partisans. In US service, it was succeeded in spirit by the Vietnam-era M50 Ontos, with it's [[Dakka|SIX 106mm recoilless rifles]].
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