Griefbringer
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Joined: 3/29/2003 From: Helsinki, Finland Status: offline
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When I played through the Utah to Rhine campaign through for the first time last month, my core force consisted almost wholly of Shermans of various design's, and I actually liked them. Sure, their armour and anti-tank capacity was a bit flimsy for tank-to-tank combat, and they were a bit sluggish on the move, but this made them a bit more challenging to use (not a bad thing when playing against AI), but this could be pretty much coped for by a good use of combined arms and some planning. And one interesting thing about Shermans is that they are available in really a lot of different flavours - probably 20 or more I think. Sure the German kitties are impressive on tank-to-tank fighting, but there is a lot of other good stuff on the game too. Russkies field many good ones - the plain T-34 is pretty well-designed as it is, KV's are great in early war years and IS-heavies are just plain murder on later war years. Brits have also some decent designs in the later war years. And speaking of impressive German tanks - why nobody has mentioned E-100 aka Maus? Now that is a one mean tank even if it never saw battlefield in real life, I just tried usign one in a hypothetical scenario and was killing tanks and infantry in hordes (the crew had massive experience though). I guess in real life it would have suffered massively from the slow speed, and probably had a ton of mechanical breakdowns, though. Griefbringer
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