| Full Name | Tank, Light, Mk VI |
| Class | Heavy Vehicle |
| Movement | 6 |
| Armor Value | 1 |
| Vs Infantry (RNG / FPR) | 5/4 |
| Vs Vehicle (RNG / FPR) | 4/3 |
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| Period | 1936-1942 |
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This Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. light tank evolved from a long line of tanks from the 1920s. The British Army deemed it the most effective light tank in the world when it entered service in 1936, and used it extensively throughout the Empire before WWII. During WWII, the type was in front-line service into 1942. It was the most numerous type of tank in British service at the outbreak of war, and served during the German invasion of France; in North Africa; during the battles of Greece and Crete; and even in defense of Malaysia and the Dutch East Indies against Japanese invasions in 1942. The Germans converted captured vehicles into self-propelled guns, the Geschützwagen Mk VI 736 (e) which mounted a 10.5 cm leFH 16 howitzer on the Mk VI chassis. Its fully-rotating turret carried a main armament of one .50 inch (12.7 mm) Vickers (or 15 mm Besa) machine gun and secondary armament of one .303 inch Vickers (or 7.92 mm Besa) machine gun. A crew of three operated the tank, and it had a top speed of 35 mph. Vickers-Armstrongs produced 1,682 units from 1936 to 1940 in a number of variants with mostly minor modifications. This unit represents all variants.