Well...the cannon and the shock factor were the main focuses anyway. I mean...its not a good idea to take a Sherman to go against one of these when the Tiger's cannon would shred you to tears.

yush, german had good tanks (aside from panzer 1 and 2), but everyone had really bad engine, so they mostly broke before they could get shot by the enemies ^^.

Lawl. I suppose you know, but the Tigers were the last tanks to be built in WW2, and thus they were produced mainly for homeland defence. Who needs big engines when you're going to lay waiting in ambushes most of the time?

I don't think the theory Germany would have won if only they'd have more tigers holds any water either. I mean, okay, for that time the Tiger 88 Mark 2's were awesome tanks, but as you noted, the engine was bad. Very bad. Too small to carry that big a tank all the way back to France.

But yeah...Michael Wittman mastered the Tiger 88. He took out 2 regiments of Shermans with only his group of 4 tigers. That's like...120 tanks against 4. :S That dude knew how to work that cannon.

Last tanks...dunno, there were also Königstiger...but there were only few of them ^^ Tiger was also used in Attack against russia, but it wasn't very usefull because of the mud and snow.

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