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Originally Posted by cerealmaniac
u sure?or am i thinking of the Tiger II(or better yet tiger ace)? from the looks of it this tiger can't even take on 1 sherman. even the stug in the pics look beefier than the tiger.
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Not really a matter of size, it's what armour you have and what gun you're packing. Tiger had good armour and was packing the 88mm, Sherman had crap armour and a comparatively piddly 76mm gun.
The Shermans had to hide and attack Tigers en masse in the hope that while the Tiger is busily killing your mates, one of you would be able to sneak to its rear and shoot it point blank.
The Sherman wasn't nicknamed a 'Ronson' for nothing. It wasn't until the Brits and Canadians managed to get the 17pdr gun into the Sherman that tankers had something good to shoot back with.