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TinkerTanker44432 [2017-03-20 15:22:21 +0000 UTC]

This has gotten me thinking. The Panther's Prototype/early models SUCKED, but once all the problems were addressed it's now regarded as one of the best tanks that served in World War Two. So my thought process is what if the Nazis had the time, man power, and resources to address the problems of the Muas. What kind of tank would the Muas have been remembered as than?

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Siveir [2016-02-21 05:46:35 +0000 UTC]

No argument here about the firepower and penetration, though I think especially IS-2 would have a chance using HE round for its 122mm gun to severly damage Maus' turret (or chasis). Espetially with sometimes variating quality of german late-war steel. Maus was a monster, as long as no defect occured and it had fuel, it would be unstopable. But both those conditions were the problem.

I have to say, such super-heavy tanks were dangerous only in tactical - or maybe operational - sense. From strategical poit of view, they were just colossal waste of resources. Allied tanks could outmaneouver them easilly, using superior numbers and maneuverability, cutt off their supply lines and literally staarve them. And tank without gas is just a giant coffin waiting for an infantryman with some guts and one frigging grenade or vodka flask... And there are allways more infantramen with guts than tanks of any kind.

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