![]() This, of course, provided many challenges to artillery units on both sides – challenges that would take whole books to describe, but to sum it up: modern mobile infantry needed mobile and fairly accurate fire support – that meant providing artillery not only with the means to move around swiftly (in other words, a tracked or wheeled self-propelled chassis), but also with protection. In other words – the tactics had changed since the Great War – where hundreds of massed guns used to pound mostly static lines, the Wehrmacht was now advancing through Europe with pace previously unheard of. The interwar period saw some limited development of the self-propelled guns, but it was the Second World War that firmly established the importance of the self-propelled guns as the means to provide by now highly mobile armies with fire support. It was, however, the Great War that saw such vehicles being actually used on the battlefield for the first time and even though the majority of the artillery of the time still consisted of guns towed by horses, the potential of self-propelled guns did not escape the keen eyes of military strategists. The idea to put a gun on a chassis with an engine is as old as cars themselves with the first attempts to build such vehicles (usually consisting of civilian trucks with a gun crudely screwed on top) appearing even before the First World War. Of all the classes in Armored Warfare, the Self-Propelled Guns have, in their most basic form, the deepest roots in history. What the name does not imply is, however, the armor part – that came a bit later. Of the five Armored Warfare classes, the Self-Propelled Gun class is the one with the fewest vehicles and with the changes of Balance 2.0, it has lost much of its earlier prominence – but that doesn’t mean it’s any less important than the other ones.Īs their name suggests, Self-Propelled Guns (furthermore referred to as SPGs) are howitzers, installed on a tracked or wheeled chassis.
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