Phantom Captain

Yep, that‘s certainly true.
I only recently lost an RT match badly. Felt strong with 8 or so SS-Pz IV. Until they marched into the cross fire of five or six SU 100. A disaster….

That's a tough one, SU-100s are another favourite of mine.

A VERY BRIEF encounter.
I know @FlammenwerferX has a PzIV on overwatch in a field beyond a woodlot and across a lake and he's been throwing HE into my SMG troops in the woodlot (who have their hands full with the German soldiers they have encountered in the woods) and causing me some pain.  Earlier one of my T-34/85s got hit and one of the crew killed but the survivors dismounted, went and took a lie down and then got brave and hopped back into their machine.  I immediately tasked them with trying to take care of this problem.
Racing across a field behind the woodlot, my tank spots the "thorn in my side" PzIV.

However, FlammewerferX's tank spots me at the same time.  Both tanks level their guns.

My crew fires!  And you may not notice but if you look closely you can see the puff of smoke around the PzIV as both tanks fire at each simultaneously!

Incredibly both Soviet and German tank round pass each other in flight.

Mutual destruction as both tanks destroy each other at the same time.

Jings! These T-34s have sure evolved...

Brits in Syria. 
The target.

No target arcs on the T-34s. They reacted on their own volition.
As my opponent sent the Tiger that route I can only assume he was unaware they were there, and hence so was the Tiger. 

whoa, that is wild!  

A VERY BRIEF encounter.
I know @FlammenwerferX has a PzIV on overwatch in a field beyond a woodlot and across a lake and he's been throwing HE into my SMG troops in the woodlot (who have their hands full with the German soldiers they have encountered in the woods) and causing me some pain.  Earlier one of my T-34/85s got hit and one of the crew killed but the survivors dismounted, went and took a lie down and then got brave and hopped back into their machine.  I immediately tasked them with trying to take care of this problem.
Racing across a field behind the woodlot, my tank spots the "thorn in my side" PzIV.

However, FlammewerferX's tank spots me at the same time.  Both tanks level their guns.

My crew fires!  And you may not notice but if you look closely you can see the puff of smoke around the PzIV as both tanks fire at each simultaneously!

Incredibly both Soviet and German tank round pass each other in flight.

Mutual destruction as both tanks destroy each other at the same time.

A VERY BRIEF encounter.
I know @FlammenwerferX has a PzIV on overwatch in a field beyond a woodlot and across a lake and he's been throwing HE into my SMG troops in the woodlot (who have their hands full with the German soldiers they have encountered in the woods) and causing me some pain.  Earlier one of my T-34/85s got hit and one of the crew killed but the survivors dismounted, went and took a lie down and then got brave and hopped back into their machine.  I immediately tasked them with trying to take care of this problem.
Racing across a field behind the woodlot, my tank spots the "thorn in my side" PzIV.

However, FlammewerferX's tank spots me at the same time.  Both tanks level their guns.

My crew fires!  And you may not notice but if you look closely you can see the puff of smoke around the PzIV as both tanks fire at each simultaneously!

Incredibly both Soviet and German tank round pass each other in flight.

Mutual destruction as both tanks destroy each other at the same time.

A VERY BRIEF encounter.
I know @FlammenwerferX has a PzIV on overwatch in a field beyond a woodlot and across a lake and he's been throwing HE into my SMG troops in the woodlot (who have their hands full with the German soldiers they have encountered in the woods) and causing me some pain.  Earlier one of my T-34/85s got hit and one of the crew killed but the survivors dismounted, went and took a lie down and then got brave and hopped back into their machine.  I immediately tasked them with trying to take care of this problem.
Racing across a field behind the woodlot, my tank spots the "thorn in my side" PzIV.

However, FlammewerferX's tank spots me at the same time.  Both tanks level their guns.

My crew fires!  And you may not notice but if you look closely you can see the puff of smoke around the PzIV as both tanks fire at each simultaneously!

Incredibly both Soviet and German tank round pass each other in flight.

Mutual destruction as both tanks destroy each other at the same time.

Fully working on the 5th and last campaign "Our Father". Some impressions from the City of Mogilev:

Mogilev Town Hall before the war 
 

And Mogilev Town Hall in the campaign on the morning of 29th June 1944
 

Mogilev, St.Nicolas convent today
 

St.Nicolas convent after the heavy fighting in July 1941, when Germans captured the city
 

And the ruins of St.Nicolas during the campaign on the morning of 30th June 1944
 

And  the German Airfield near Mogilev 
 

Mogilev during WWII
 

Mogilev during the campaign on 28th June 1944
 

A VERY BRIEF encounter.
I know @FlammenwerferX has a PzIV on overwatch in a field beyond a woodlot and across a lake and he's been throwing HE into my SMG troops in the woodlot (who have their hands full with the German soldiers they have encountered in the woods) and causing me some pain.  Earlier one of my T-34/85s got hit and one of the crew killed but the survivors dismounted, went and took a lie down and then got brave and hopped back into their machine.  I immediately tasked them with trying to take care of this problem.
Racing across a field behind the woodlot, my tank spots the "thorn in my side" PzIV.

However, FlammewerferX's tank spots me at the same time.  Both tanks level their guns.

My crew fires!  And you may not notice but if you look closely you can see the puff of smoke around the PzIV as both tanks fire at each simultaneously!

Incredibly both Soviet and German tank round pass each other in flight.

Mutual destruction as both tanks destroy each other at the same time.

100% for sure on all points.  I love having Stuart when I'm facing german infantry & AT guns.  The vast majority of fights were not w panthers & tigers involved, so shermans did a great job overall.  Except for some of those fights in Brit sector in Normandy facing all those panthers -- those are gawd awful w shermans.

Honestly, I like all iterations of the T-34 too, with both the 76mm gun for the points mentioned above and because, of course, the T-34/85 was just excellent when used properly as we also mentioned above.  It really is one of my favs.
I mean, everyone does love the Tigers and Panthers, etc. and I do too but I think my favorite German tanks were the PzIV and honestly, the PzIII with the 50mm gun.  I think I really have a think for light and medium tanks more than the big heavies.  Don't get me wrong, the Tiger and Panther are fun and really good at what they do but they do have their vulnerabilities.  Nothing I love more than knocking out a Panther with a side shot from a 75mm Sherman!!  And again, at the end of the war, regardless of who had better optics etc. the Germans lost ALL their tanks.  So that argument is kinda moot in my opinion. 😉😁
And hey now!  Let's not be harsh or talk down about the most EXCELLENT Sherman tank in all of its special iterations as well!  The Brit tanks are interesting but I'll take good ole Shermans any day of the week.  I honestly love them and it is probably my #1 favorite tank of the war.  But then, I'm one of those guys who absolutely loves the Stuart tank too.  I mean, for a light infantry support/recon tank its just fantastic.  I love the Stuart for all the machineguns it carries and its very decent 37mm gun.  And I love the 75mm Sherman for it's anti-infantry punch and firepower as well.  The up-gunned 76mm Shermans are just icing on the cake if you happen to run into enemy armor!
 

Maybe one of those moments where if you're the owner of the Tiger you might raise a vexed eyebrow, but if you're the T34 owner you might not 😉.
Were the T34s hidden by any chance, so engines off?  Just curious.

The Tiger did see them but only after he'd past the, The trees are switched off but both T-34s were in reverse slope position hidden in trees. The Tiger appears to have not known they were. he's moving at full speed. Once he's level he starts to spot them but there are two and it takes time for the Tiger's turret to traverse - all the time he's rolling along in the opposite direction the gun is traversing. I don't think its not odd spotting BTW more showing how slow the Tiger turret traverse it. The RHS T-34 got the first shot off which bounced. Just takes time to swung that but old turret around.
 
EDIT: The T-34s knew he was coming - shared radio info and then they had a sound contcat. I assume the Tiger had no such knowledge. In fact I'm certain he had no info they were there.

I hate to say it, but my beloved Tiger often disappoints me in CM. Despite the frontal strength and fierce look.
I.e., the video does not surprise me too much.

I've been there too Andreas, but I'd still rather have a Tiger than a Panzer IV 😉.

Live action combat film from the front lines.
 

Yeah I ignored myself as well when I played it as a PBEM. I went hunting for the IS-IIs.
Narrator: don't do this kids.

We had a great time in our PBEM, we both more or less ignored GeorgeMC's instructions 😉 and just went for each other.  I was Soviet of course.  Great game @George MC!

Granata!

Youalways feel very unlucky when it comes to the destruction of AFV: yours always seem to be more brittle that your opponent's, whatever side you plau... I understood only recently that there is a reason for that: it takes generally more than one "killing hit" to just DISCOVER that the tank you're firing at is knocked out. As long as they're not sure, your own tanks go on firing at what might already be a wreck... And so you think that you need three shots to kill a tank while the first was already a kill!
That may be what happend to my Cromwells against this couple of StuG.

That is the scenario Im currently in. I thought the Cat is refering to the Panther in the title. But the more Panthers I loose (or almost loose) I have the feeling that the roles are reversed now.
 
Usually those JS2 take at least 1 to 2 ranging shots to be actually on target.
In 2 Cases now the Panther commanders only could See the muzzle flash and a short sight of the behemoth before they got taken apart.
@PEB14
Then you must have been very unlucky in this instance. Most of my Stug loses and kills were one shot penetrations. If the vehicles itself wasnt destroyed the Crew was most likely vaporized because of the cramped interior. Its the same with all the turretless tanks actually.

Reason I like Red Thunder, a boys dream came true. I finally can play with JS2s. Waited 60 years I am now 73 but it was worth it.