Just yesterday I watched a documentary on PBS about WWII. Specifically on German Tanks. It was very interesting to watch real footage of the tanks in battle and to hear the history. I am no expert on the subject but am very interested in it.
Anyway, it mostly talked about how in the beginning of the war Germany's Tanks were technologically below that of the other european countries (due to the treaty of Marsi (sp)) also there numbers were well below Frances and Englands. It talked about the Panzer I thru Panzer VI. How at first even though the german tanks were not as good they still won due to there tactics. And how in such a short time the germans created some of if not the most deadly tanks. (Although they did copy a lot from the russians)
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Anyway, it was quite interesting because I had just finished a game of VoT as the Germans. I was getting my butt kicked because I lost my anti tank guns early on and only took out one of there tanks. I was able to hold them off at the town but they pretty much had me when, the distinctive rumble came, closer and closer until I could almost smell the diesel there was my Panther. within 3 mins 4 of there tanks were scrap. I won the scenerio all due to that one tank. Now, without my infantry I could never have won but in combination, wow. It just shows that in combination and the right tactics, you can still win.
As I watched the documentary, A lot of things they said, I had just experienced in the game. There are many reports of Allied shells bouncing right off the Panzer armor and many a time did I get that particular sound from the game. They did say that the Tank made up the core of the unit and the infantry was used as support. And that is exactly how I won.
So to ask "Tanks or Infanty?" I'll take both Thank You.
Stenmur