Profile of Death's Head

This thread is descending/has descended into personal animosity.

Please stop..... or it will be locked.

I mean no disrespect but what has made you guys suddenly intervene? This happens in pretty much every tread.

Looks like katitof took it upon himself to go full retard, yet again.

If you don't have anything to chase down engine damaged tank, your fault.

Funny, I remember giving you this lecture when you whined about PIVs escaping death because of old blitz. What's that? You're a biased pos who barely plays the game he talks so much about?

When you place your med bunker in a central location and not next to your own base.



When you are ahead by more than 200VP and have all the fuel.



When you incendiary bomb a blob of maxims, ZiS guns and mortars.



After you 3v1 a player in a 4v4 game.

If the T-34 is so awful, why did the Germans enjoy even the worst model?

T-34/76 was held in high regard and also elite units such as Panzergrenadier Division "Grossdeutschland" (Panzer Regiment "Grossdeutschland") used some captured examples as late as 1945. Waffen-SS units also did not hesitate to use captured T-34/76 tanks and 2nd SS Panzer Division "Das Reich" and 3rd SS Panzer Division "Totenkopf" pressed significant number into service. Modifications included installation of commander’s cupola (from damaged Panzerkampfwagen III and IV tanks), Schuerzen (armor skirts) and other equipment such as Notek light, storage boxes, tools, radio equipment and antenna.

Surely such elite divisions wouldn't want to use "the worst tank in WW2"?

The T-34 was not an "awful" design. It was a serviceable and competent model that was produced by a nation that had the industrial/logistical wherewithal to tolerate the many shortcomings of these vehicles under prolonged total-war.

The problem lies in the many myths and overestimation of the combat-effectiveness and reliability of these tanks and the gross exaggerations of attributing Soviet victory in the east (or German defeat) to a few different pieces of equipment. The T-34 no more won the war than the SVT rifle or RGD grenade. These are just pieces of equipment. As long as they function as they are meant to and are not woefully obsolete/unreliable...in the grand scheme of a theater the size of the eastern front...this tank or that tank is not going to influence the planning and execution of strategic operations in any significant way.

Better equipment gives you a tactical advantage...which is good...and tactical victories can lead to strategic victories...but at the end of the day if Germany had 9000 T-34/85s instead and the USSR produced 50,000+ Panzer IVs...the outcome would likely have been exactly the same.

The resource allocation has everything to do with it. Also considering that Westheer has very powerful units available in the opening tiers, the lower resource income serves as a pacing buffer to prevent inevitable "unit rushing" schemes.