Phantom Captain

Thanks, I know excatly what you mean!
Ladies and Gentlemen, the "invincible" King Tiger.  
Just like you said Dan, the reality sets in pretty quick.

What new sorcery is this?
@FlammenwerferX and I have engaged at Ogledow.

Suffered a weird time jump again...
A US Marine and Ma Deuce.

Out for a stroll in the country.

Great pics as usual.  The Great King Tiger2 emerging from the smoke.  I still love these beasts.  I remember when I was young & foolish and thought these things were nearly invincible.  Then I played CM.  Oh, turns out 60 tons of steel is a lot more fragile than one would think.  Also at some point read how mechanically unreliable they were.  Kinda wish I could go back to my starry-eyed ignorance and idolize these things like I used to.  

What new sorcery is this?
@FlammenwerferX and I have engaged at Ogledow.

Suffered a weird time jump again...
A US Marine and Ma Deuce.

Out for a stroll in the country.

What new sorcery is this?
@FlammenwerferX and I have engaged at Ogledow.

Tiger Trail...
Night falls on the Nieman river and the glow from burning vehicles illuminates my troops as they advance.

Suffered a weird time jump again...
A US Marine and Ma Deuce.

Out for a stroll in the country.

All of the platoon inside hand grenade range. 

Ambushed! 

Short update:
4 of 5 campaigns are running their final test 👍 this means, 44 single missions are almost ready for the release.
But there will be a small delay until the last campaign "Our Father" is finished, because I have enlarged this campaign 😉
More news to come...
 
Regards
Mr.X

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.

Ha!  Honestly, for battle, I probably would too.  However, it still doesn't change my affection for the PzIV.  If I had my choice, I'd take a Panther even before the Tiger, I think.
Yep.  Truly though, ALL WWII tanks are pretty blind so none of it surprises me.  Buttoned up, I honestly don't rely on any of them to get get spots.  That's what radios, binoculars, and a commander's hatch are for!  🤣  
Someone posted on one of the modern threads a video of a Ukrainian and Russian tank going right past each other and then not being able to spot the other, or subsequently losing track of the other in the heat and confusion of battle, and these are modern tanks.
That all being said, I don't really have any arguments about armor spotting in CM anymore.  I just put it all down to adrenaline, nerves, smoke, death, fire, blood and confusion on the battlefield.  @George MC's video even reinforces it a bit.  I mean it was the Soviet tanks that had intel and a contact and the Tiger didn't have a clue they were where they were.  I meant to ask you George, did you have firing arcs on the T-34s or was it the AI itself slinging those turrets backwards?
 

That's a scary picture with that Panther out in the open. Those Russian tanks only need one hit to KO the Panthers. They are slow but pack a huge punch. I tried hard to sneak around and watch from cover and hull down. Even then....
Dave

Cat and Mouse...
Masked and waiting for @FlammenwerferX and his stalking Panthers.


Displace!

Saving this one for later use as wallpaper!  Haha!

Cat and Mouse...
Masked and waiting for @FlammenwerferX and his stalking Panthers.


Displace!

Cat and Mouse...
Masked and waiting for @FlammenwerferX and his stalking Panthers.


Displace!

Yeah, that version is call RDM - Angriff (adapted by @nightops:
https://www.thefewgoodmen.com/tsd3/cm-red-thunder/cm-red-thunder-add-ons-scenarios/rdm-angriff/

You may have played a different version of this scenario, because I'm 100% sure that the tanks I'm facing are T-34/85! I was more than surprised to see their incredible performance against my Panzer-wonders. Particularly because in the previous PBEM, I played T-34/76 against Panzer IV  — and the T-34 were no match at all! (this was in "Hill 621 Redux", which is as bad a scenario as "Angriff" is a good one — even though I might be the losing side in both cases in the end…).

Current battle with @Phantom Captain... Cat and Mouse

Tiger Trail...
Night falls on the Nieman river and the glow from burning vehicles illuminates my troops as they advance.

Tiger Trail...
Night falls on the Nieman river and the glow from burning vehicles illuminates my troops as they advance.

A glimpse of @Mr.X's upcoming Tiger Trail campaign.
Here, close to the Nieman River, the glow of burning enemy vehicles illuminate my men as they pass in the falling darkness.