I’ve got a 1:15 scale model of the Tiger btw, so if you need some detail pics, I’ll be happy to provide some.
I would love to see this in the game. This is my favorite German tank from WW2!! This tank was a beast and still is today unless it got surrounded by 3 or more M4 Sherman class tanks.
Actually it wasn't, she only boasted 100 MM of armor, which at close ranges (100 to 200 meters) could be penetrated by the M4's 75 MM cannon, the only tank the tiger could resist at such ranges were the early model T-34's and KVs. The T-34-57 however, could easily kill it even at 500 meters, and the Tiger I was useless against say, the 76MM of the later sherman models, the Infamous 17-pounder of the firefly and the comet, and the famous and feared 85MM of the soviet's T-34-85, KV-85 and the IS-1/85, all of which were just as good and could even out range the KWK36 88. Common media depictions of the Tiger are very inaccurate, for instance in FURY, the tiger is shown to withstand being fired upon at point blank by a 76MM armed sherman, when in reality that shot would've killed it instantly, even the 75's on the other shermans would've penned at that range. The Tiger I can take on 4 or more Shermans at once, when crewed correctly that is, (Keeping at 1000 meter or more range, targeting first tank in column, then last, then targeting any 76MM armed Shermans, before engaging the 75s, all whilst not letting any close distance.) but the tank itself, when crewed incorrectly, is very bad, she's unreliable, slow, and poorly armored. Also she had various weakspots on her frontal armor which allowed her to be penned even easier, one combat record shows a Cromwell (Incapable of penetrating the front normally at long ranges) killing a Tiger I at range after the gunner put a shot through the driver's viewport. And the most famous tiger ever (Bovington's unit 131) was knocked out also at range after a shot went into the turret ring of the tank. The best german tank of the war, record wise, is the Stug-III/IV series tank destroyer, with a proposed (By propaganda so most likely a little over exaggerated) 20,000 enemy tank kills. (This, if the 20,000 is true, is more then the Panther and Tiger I's kill records put together.) Stats wise, the Panther is the best tank in not just the german army, but all armies of WWII (Only the M26 is comparable, and that saw little action) however the panther was very unreliable, a good amount of the recorded losses were due to breakdowns. All round, the Panzer-IV was perhaps the best tank of the german army, with the H boasting 80 MM of frontal armor, a cannon that had around 130 MM of pen at 100 meters and around 100-105 pen at 1000 meters, 45KPH top speed, and weighing only 26 tons, it was also highly reliable, plus cheap and fast to produce in large numbers.
Hope youre as good with jbeam as youre with modelling. Or someone helps you with that. Really look foward to seeing it in game, even if it doesnt fires...
question is the tiger tanks 8.8cm KwK 36 gun gonna be able to fire as well as the turret rotate and lower and raise.
When I have the free time I watch WW2 history videos (yah im a nerd) and this is great! As Fluffy said, your amazing.
