Capt. Pixel
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Joined: 10/15/2001 From: Tucson, AZ Status: offline
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My opinion is that the Big German TDs and AGs were the biggest waste of effort (SturmTiger, Elefant) Although, under certain circumstances, I've had very good success with the Elefant. Long visibility and open terrain with an elevated overwatch are ideal for the Elefant. The SturmTiger's big gun can be as detrimental to your own troops as that of the enemy if you're not extremely careful with firing them. (Opfire can be truly devastating, as you rarely have control over it) On the other hand, there's nothing quite as satisfying as obliterating a city block with one of those bad boys. :D But if you're dealing with a dwindling availability in qualified tanker crews, these behemoths might have been the only feasible option available to the Germans at the time. The British cruiser series seems particularly weak as represented in SPWaW. I'm not qualified to tell whether or not the representation is fairly accurate. For myself, I tend to bypass the Cruiser series when I'm making a British force selection. I don't, as a rule, play Japanese forces, but my overall opinion is that they should have spent more effort developing infantry AT weapons rather than tanks and saved their steel for ships. :cool:
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