As a kid the Haunted Tank stories found in GI Combat were a great inspiration to me. Every issue was a potential wargame scenario. A US Army tank crew lands in North Africa and fights their way from their to the end of the war in a Stuart, Sherman, Pershing and their own tank cobbled together from destroyed US, Soviet and German tanks. The Stuart was their first tank and went through most of the war with them.
Despite the little 37mm gun they would knock out Tiger Is from the front from great distances, not too realistic, but then it is a comic book about a tank that is haunted. Now there are two volumes of Haunted Tank stories, each one hundreds of pages long and in order. They are in black and white but each volume is about the price on one of the old original comic books. I am enjoying reading them, but only read two or three at a time. They tend to run together if you try and read six stories in a row.
Each story is a potential wargame scenario. One they faced Tigers that appeared out of nowhere. It seems they were in an underground tank repair complex. Late in the war the Germans did move many facilities underground so this is not a bad idea. They only discovered it when they got really close. Good stuff.
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