(December 4, 2018 at 12:25 am)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: At work.
For me it's either the cramped little 'Hetzer' (Which continued to evolve under Swiss use after the war) or the flawed Panther as "What would you like to drive/crew?"
The home developed 'Sentinel', while interesting for such a quickly instigated machine, would have needed a lot of refinment (Basically lessons learned incorporated into a newer tank) to be as capable as, say, Shermans or Cruisers.
I think as weapons of war mid- to late war German tanks as second rate. The fact that they were individually powerfully armed and well protected and intimidating to confront completely overshadowed the fact that they were as ill thought out as stone pillars trying to stop tidal waves. They were wastefully engineered, with poorly considered balance between economy of resource consumption and individual capability, and between tactical power and strategic mobility. They consumed far more resources than their combat power demanded. They were woefully lacking in the sort of strategic mobility needed to get them to where they can tactically do some good.
