M1 57 mm Anti-Tank Gun

The British Ordnance Quick-Firing (QF) 6-pounder 7 cwt 57 mm (L/50) gun served as a primary anti-tank gun of the British Army during World War II, beginning in April 1942. It replaced the 2-pounder as an anti-tank gun, allowing the 25 pounder gun-howitzer to revert to its intended artillery role. A variant of this gun served as the main armament for a number of British armoured fighting vehicles (including up-gunned versions of the Churchill, Valentine, and Crusader tanks, plus the Cromwell). Both armor-piercing and high-explosive, anti-personnel rounds were available for this gun. In 1942 the U.S. Army also adopted the QF 6-pdr as its standard ant-tank gun in the European and Mediterranean theaters, with the nomenclature 57 mm Gun M1. U.S. industry produced 15,637 units from 1942 through 1945. These stats represent the base ToI unit. [OPTIONAL: Increase this unit's Firepower Against Infantry to 6, to reflect the fact that the QF 6-pdr (57 mm) gun had high-explosive, anti-personnel rounds and so would have been more effective than the QF 2-pdr (40 mm) against soft targets.]