WW1

United Kingdom · Heavy

The definitive British rhomboid tank of the First World War and the first to be produced in genuinely useful numbers.

GunMale: two 6-pdr (57 mm) QF guns; Female: machine guns only

France · Light

The first tank with a fully rotating turret, a rear engine and a front fighting compartment - the layout every tank since has used.

Gun37 mm Puteaux SA 18 or 8 mm Hotchkiss MG

German Empire · Heavy

Germany's only tank to see service in the First World War, a towering 18-man box on Holt tractor running gear.

Gun57 mm Maxim-Nordenfelt gun

United Kingdom · Medium

The fastest British tank of the war, conceived to exploit breakthroughs that the slow rhomboids could only create.

Gunnone

United Kingdom · Heavy

The first tank ever sent into battle, fielded on the Somme in September 1916.

GunTwo 6-pdr (Male) or machine guns only (Female)

France · Medium

France's first tank, a boxy Holt-tractor conversion with a hull-mounted 75 mm gun.

Gun75 mm Blockhaus Schneider

France · Heavy

Long-hulled French heavy with petrol-electric drive and a full 75 mm field gun.

Gun75 mm field gun

United Kingdom · Heavy

The most refined WW1 rhomboid: one driver, epicyclic gearbox, purpose-built engine.

GunTwo 6-pdr (Male) or machine guns only (Female)

United Kingdom · Heavy

An unarmoured-steel training batch rushed into combat at Arras, where German armour-piercing bullets went straight through it.

GunTwo 6-pdr (male) or six machine guns (female)

United Kingdom · Medium

Tritton's refined "Hornet", the best-handling British tank of 1918 and the one the Armistice cut short.

GunFour to five Hotchkiss machine guns

France · Light

The modernised Renault FT - new suspension, twice the speed, and an export career in Japan and Poland.

Gun37 mm SA18 or 47 mm in export turrets

Italy · Heavy

Italy's first tank and the first heavy tank anywhere with a fully rotating turret on top of the hull.

Gun65 mm howitzer in a fully rotating turret

Germany · Heavy

Never finished: a 120-tonne breakthrough machine designed to be shipped to the front in sections.

GunFour 77 mm guns in side sponsons

Russia · Heavy

A nine-metre tricycle war machine that bogged down on its first trial and rusted in the woods until 1923.

GunCannon and machine guns in sponsons and turret (design)

United Kingdom · Light

The first completed tank in the world - a trials machine that never fought, built to prove tracks could cross a trench.

GunNone fitted (2-pdr planned)

United Kingdom · Heavy

A training-only batch of fifty rhomboids built between the Mark II and the much-improved Mark IV.

Gun2 x 6-pdr (Male) or machine guns (Female)

United Kingdom · Tank Destroyer

The world first self-propelled gun: a tracked carrier that took a 60-pdr field gun across shell-torn ground.

Gun60-pdr gun or 6-inch howitzer carried

United Kingdom · Medium

The first purpose-built armoured personnel carrier - a rhomboid hull emptied out to carry thirty infantrymen.

GunNone

United Kingdom · Medium

Walter Wilson answer to the Whippet: a separate engine compartment and a fixed superstructure, and a disappointment in service.

GunMachine guns only

United Kingdom · Heavy

A 1916 design for a 100-tonne shell-proof super-heavy, cancelled before a hull was finished. Never built.

Gun1 x 6-pdr (design)

France · Light

A close-support FT with a short 75 mm howitzer in a fixed casemate, built to blow up bunkers the 37 mm could not touch.

Gun75 mm Blockhaus Schneider short howitzer

United States · Light

A US experiment that kept the rhomboid trench-crossing shape but replaced the armoured body with an open pipe frame. One built.

Gun1 x machine gun (fitted for trials)