US Tanks & The Means To Destroy Them For Flames Of War
July 11, 2014 by brennon
Flames of War has some neat tank based releases for the middle of July and we'll start things off by looking at Otto Carius and his rather cool looking Jagdtiger tank!
In the set you get Carius' Jagdtiger and the crew that went with it as well as Carius himself on foot too. Carius was quite the tank commander and a war hero to the Germans. He even has a rule where if he dies the entire army takes a blow to their morale. Not only was he approached by Himmler to join the SS (which he refused) but he also had a bounty set on his head by the Russians!
If you want to see if you can take Carius down then you could pick up either the Jackson Tank Destroyer which could potentially do the job. For dealing with those dug in infantry units then your best bet would be the Sherman Crocodile with its flamethrower. I remember using these a lot in Company of Heroes to get rid of those dug in German units.
Last but not least if you want to make sure the way is clear of mines laid by the enemy then you can pick up the Aunt Jemima Mine Roller (which does indeed look like a hair roller) to make a safe path for infantry and more.
A nice selection!
It’s good to see more historical personel in FoW.
Kurt Knispel please…
Carius was a tough nut too.
Oh, can we have Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche und Camminetz. Read about him and you will understand why 🙂
Trust me, @dorthonion , I have his bio. Great call, I totally agree.
How about Hugo Primozic? @warzan might get a kick out of reading about Germany’s StuG ace. 🙂 I have his bio from James Lucas’ “War on the Eastern Front.”
Looks like a nice miniature, I assume this would be resin? I have the Peter Pig 15mm Jagdtiger, would be interesting to see how they compare.
I must confess I have never heard the Sherman’s mine clearing variant called an “Aunt Jemima.” I thought it was just pancake syrup. 🙂 But there it is, the T1E3 variant “Aunt Jemima.” You learn something every day (I’d only heard of the T1E1 variant “Earthworm”). I’m pretty sure only a handful (four or five) of those Sherman Crocodiles were ever built, and only used in one battle. Those Jagdtigers were also extremely rare, and only used in the very last months of the war (I’ve only seen photos of them in the Ardennes and northern Italy). I know Carius… Read more »
Yes I think from what you read about the Jagdtiger’s actual use, definitely file this one under ‘affectation’ ! 🙂 One to get for being a nice miniature but you have to forget a bit about historical accuracy…
The jagdtiger only came in right at the end of the war and had very little impact by that time think really Otto Carius was most well known for his exploits in the Tiger tank, and most memorably the attack on the village of Malinava where he and another Tiger caught a group of Soviet Tanks by surprise.
Couldn’t have said it better, @pacific . I certainly want to get a Jadgtiger … actually it’s been on my list for a while now. But I would get ONE, to go with my three Tigers, my six Panthers, and my 12 PzKpfw IVs. And even then, I would expect to actually play the Jagdtiger only on the most special of occasions. Then again, a lot of people just play the game for the game, and are looking only to have fun blowing stuff up. Given that late-war WW2 seems to be FoWs most popular period, I totally get it.… Read more »
while it’s true that Otto did most of his best work in his Tiger he was reallocated to a heavy tank destoyer and ended up in the Jagdtiger for the 512th when he was commander and fought in the defense of the Rhine, while he accounted for numerous kills in the Jagd he said he hated the vehicle and the lack of a turret and would have much prefered his Tiger, he was with that regiment until surrendered to the Americans in April 45. I like it as I have Otto in his Tiger already so having the option to… Read more »
Always fun to play the late war ‘heavies’. Technically, I think you would classify the jagdtiger as a tank destroyer, wouldn’t you? Or an assault gun in a stretch.
Yes, “Jagdtiger” = “hunting tiger.” German tank destroyers were classified with that “jagd” prefix. “jagdpanzer” roughly = “hunter of armor,” thus “tank killer.” Thus we see Jadgpanzer IV, Jadgpanther, and Jagdtiger.
This can get confusing (what about German WW2 doctrine ISN’T?) since assault guns — “Sturmgeschutz” or “storm guns” (StuGs) — were technically assault guns, but often pushed into a tank killer role because of emergency and lack of numbers.
Hence the Jagdtiger (tank destroyer Tiger) is a very different beast from the Sturmtiger (assault gun Tiger)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Sturmtiger_2.jpg