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>>Imperial Armor debacle of him and Cruddance being the big WW2 history buffs actually giving out stats for various imperial tanks
you're thinking of Warwick Kinrade, he was one of the main writers on the early IM books. Bligh wasn't involved in a major way until like, Badab War. A lot of Bligh's fluff contributions were from him writing for the Fantasy Flight RPGs, not the Imperial Armour books.
>>The Lemen Russ was slower and had thinner armor than WW2 tanks
The armor is the same as a King Tiger and its speed is similar to a King Tiger too. Really most specifics of the Leman Russ are just whatever features of a real tank the author wanted to reference.