Happy to announce that the 6th Guards Armoured will have their first OFFICIAL SCRIM with the 14thW this Sunday, December 17th, at 12 pm EST/6 pm CET, on Bridgehead. Feel free to join and watch!

Check out our new website, which I think is honestly pretty awesome:



http://6thga.org



Tell your wife, tell your kids !

Hey guys! Please come join our discord channel, which can be found here:



https://discord.gg/aUVprWg



Members of the public are also welcome to join! If you're a member, please join as well.



See you on the front!

Hello everyone,



Welcome to the newly created 6th Guards Armoured Brigade!

It's my hope we can make this into a really fun unit. I already have a server in Darkest Hour and am looking forward to growing our numbers!

Here is some history on the unit, thanks to Wikipedia:

The 6th Guards Tank Brigade was an armoured brigade of the British Army during the Second World War formed from the Foot Guards in 1941 as the 6th Guards Armoured Brigade when the United Kingdom was under the threat of invasion and more armoured formations were required.

Permission was granted from King George VI and the Colonels of the Regiments involved and, over the summer of 1941, the Infantry of the Guards converted into an armoured formation and the Guards Armoured Division was formed, containing the 5th and 6th Guards Armoured Brigades, together with supporting units.[1]

In 1942, all British armoured divisions were reorganised to have one armoured brigade and one motorised infantry brigade. The 6th Guards Armoured Brigade thus became an independent tank brigade, being renamed as the 6th Guards Tank Brigade.[2] The brigade, now equipped with the Churchill tank,[3] served in the North West Europe Campaign landing in Normandy on 20 July 1944.[4]



Correspondence in Winston Churchill's The Second World War (Volume V: Closing the Ring, Annex C) in April 1944 appears to indicate there was consideration of breaking the brigade up and making its personnel available as replacements for other army formations. Churchill was opposed to this, and nothing appears to have been done.[5]

The brigade went on to take part in the Battle of Normandy in Operation Bluecoat,[6] Operation Veritable finally ending the war at Lübeck on the Baltic Sea where they captured a U-boat.[7]