Heavy Bomber Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 Just for kicks post your Favorite WWII Tank Mine: German - Panther American - Chaffee British - Crusader ------------------ Always Check Your Six! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 German - Jagdpanzer IV American - none... they are all junk and ugly British - Matilda II Russian - T-34/85 French - Somua Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest titan Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 german : MkIVg British: Cromwell Yanky :M4a4 Russian: T35 french:Char bis Italian: M13\40 japanese: Chi ha New Zealand : Armoured Sheep ------------------ AUCK New Zealand Superpower waiting to happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>New Zealand : Armoured Sheep<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Sheeps need protection in New Zealand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastables Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 You see this kiwi was showing his aussie mate around his farm. Upon discovering a sheep with its head stuck in the fence, the kiwi, forgetting his mate pulls down his pants and begins to have his dastardly way with the sheep. Upon finishing with the sheep his mate the aussie says ' Crap I'll have some of that!' Proceeds to pull his pants down, and the jams his head into the fence. Huzza another blow for NZ I want that member rank dammit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 Bastables, I believe one more will do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stabsfeldwebel Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 yanks- pershing brits - firefly german tiger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MantaRay Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 Berlichtingen wrote: <<New Zealand : Armoured Sheep Sheeps need protection in New Zealand?>> Sheep is both singular and plural, hehe j/k My question is do the women need protection also? Or do you Kiwis just plain prefer the sheep anyway? Ray ------------------ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MantaRay Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 And how do you get the member rank anyway??? Ray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berlichtingen Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>And how do you get the member rank anyway???<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> In your case... about 6 more posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark IV Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 Favorite tank...? Hmmmh, what could that be? Kiwi note: When I was in Australia, New Zealand was shipping an entire freighter full of sheep to Malaysia or some place. The Aussies called it "The Love Boat". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard III Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 Though the Pershing is my favorite in the CM time frame, the KV-II is my overall favorite. Yeah, so it didn't work so well, but imagine a 6" shell impacting a Pz. III! BOOM!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Offwhite Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 Russian: T-34/76 (til those Panthers show up) German: Jagdpanther US: M-10 (still not quite sure why) Brit: Firefly French: Panther (okay, okay, so it was after the war) Hey Berlichtingen - you've got a strange sense of esthetics if you rule out all American tanks on the basis of ugliness, yet prefer the Matilda! Eye of the beholder, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LT CANADA Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 American-- If I had to choose one it would be the.......Pershing German--Tiger Brit----Comet Russian-----T34/85 Infantry weapons Rifle----Lee Enfield LMG-----Bren HMG-----MG 42 SMG----MP 40 Assualt Rifle---MP 44 AT weapon---Panzersheck Artillery field gun---25 pdr Rocket launcher--nebelwerfer Cant think of anymore.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkEzra Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 M-3 Stuart...and who says American tanks all look like crap!? Why they are adorable...and after the nose job and face lift my little Stuart will surely get a date for the Prom! A Face Only a Mother Could Love Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scurlock Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 American: M18. I can't wait to this thing on a board where it can effectively do what it was desighned to do: hit and run! And it's not ugly in my book. It's a cool mean looking machine. British: None. Scarcely a thing they produced wasn't obsolete or outclassed before the ink was dried on the blueprints. The Matilda II was almost contemporary when it was produed, but it's small gun made it an oxymoron. An Infatry Tank with no HE to fire at the infatry? LOL. The COMET was a good gun on an obsolete chasis design, etc, etc, etc... German: The Tiger I. Speaks for itself. Russian: The T34. Revolutionized tank design. Yes it was overrated, with what other countries consider combat nessecites missing - such as a turret basket, but it did create quite a stir. Wouldn't want to be in a T34/85 though. Turret Ring too small for that gun. French: None. There stuff looked great on paper, and actualy gave Rommel quite a scare on at least one occasion, but suffered from poor crew considerations in the designs. Italian: None: Perhaps the first tanks to be refered to by their crews as mobile coffins. Gag! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
howardb Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 I'm basing my intelligence on the realistic wargame Close Combat I'm sure some of you have heard of it. US - Stuart. It's cheap it's fast and it knocks out German Panthers more often than not. German - Wurfrahmen. They're simply the greatest German achievement of WW2. They can take out just about anything that doesn't fly. I know it's not a Panzer but who needs them anyway. UK - Crocs. They got enough fuel to keep Norway running for a year, at least. USSR - JSU152? (was it?). They're about as powerful as the Wurfs but way better armored. [This message has been edited by howardb (edited 01-17-2000).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 US: another vote for the Stuart (goes back to my comic book days of the J.E.B.Stuart series) Ger:i know its not a tank but i've always liked the StuG, low slung, mean looking - reminds me of a repitilian dinosaur. Brit: well its a close vote between the churchill just big slow and ugly - but hey someone has to like it, OR the Universal carrier...man i'd like to OWN one! Russ: all i remember is PanzerBlitz days...big ugly fast powerful and i couldn't tell the difference! but thanks for asking HB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
risc Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 German: Tiger I (any time any day) The Rest: British: Firefly US: M36 + umbrella for grenades protection Russian: KV-85 Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Tom Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 British: Matilda II Russian: KV-II German: Neubaufahrzeug American: None, lack of interesting craftmenship. Belgian: T.13 Type II French: Char D2 Polish: 7TPdw (These things with 2 HMG's look KOOL!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullethead Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 US: The T10 Mine Exploder (only 1 built). This was an M4A2 with a reverse tricycle undercarriage consisting of 8' diameter, 3' wide, multi-disc mine rollers, instead of tracks. It was 13' 1" high, 12' 9" wide, and 28' 3" long (the rear roller assembly stuck out behind), and weighed 124,400 pounds in total. German: The Jpz38 Hetzer, one of the few AFVs to ever really live up to its name Ruskie: The T-35-1 with 5, count 'em, FIVE turrets Brit: Gotta love the Churchill French: The Char 2C(75)--too bad they got bombed before they got into action Italian: The Semovente 90/53, pretty much equivalent to the Nashorn. Japanese: CHI-RI type 5, rather Pantheresque, but only 5 built -Bullethead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Christensen Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 Favorite WWII Tanks: M10 TD M18 TD M36 TD M18/36 Super Hellcat (a prototype) Gotta love the unsung, unheralded, supressed from most histories, doing the David vs Goliath thing, low, well armed, little armour, and fast, and posessing the coolest patch ever produced, and earning a comment in H. M. Coles history of the Battle of the Bulge that the AARs for the skirmishes in the conflict over and over show TDs showing up and changing the course of battle. Kevin Christensen Lawrence, KS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest scurlock Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 Originally posted by howardb: I'm basing my intelligence on the realistic wargame Close Combat I'm sure some of you have heard of it. US - Stuart. It's cheap it's fast and it knocks out German Panthers more often than not. Oh Gawed is CC that bad? $5 to the first person who can provide me a CM (gold version) movie where a Stuart takes out a Panther under the following surcumstances: A board size of at least two by one square Kilometers, and a manning and equipment advantage on the Allied side of no more than 3 to 1. Also, only one in ten Allied medium tanks can have a 17lb gun, one in 10 a 90m gun, and only one in five a 76mm gun. No squeaze bore Stuarts allowed. The Allies also have to be on the offensive, not a meeting engagement. It'll be worth the $5 to see how you got one of those tin cans to take out the Panther. P.S. Not trying to cut you down here , just try this in CM and youll get a real reality check. Never played CC but really... ------------------ Eric Scurlock "He who gets there the fastest with the mostest wins." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Beman Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 Great, now scurlock is talking about squeezing his bore" howardb, I bet if you play CC4 long enough you'll get a Wurfrahmen to hit an airplane. Just keep trying. DjB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herr Oberst Posted January 17, 2000 Share Posted January 17, 2000 In a show of good taste, and in the interest of international relations, I WILL NOT post the obvious reply to Berlichtingen's second post of this thread... *fingers quiver near the keyboard* Only from the... the... *aauuugh* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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