Tanks Unboxing: Tiger 1 Tank Expansion
March 24, 2017 by dignity
We take a look at an expansion for your German force,whether its North Africa or the Eastern Front in Gale Force Nine's World War II skirmish game Tanks. The Tiger 1 Heavy Tank.
Included in this expansion along with a Crew Card and two Upgrade Cards are a pair of Hero Cards for your army in the form of Otto Carius and Kurt Knipsel.
This leads John and Justin into a discussion regarding who really was the best Panzer ace of the second World War?
Who do you think was the best Panzer ace of World War II?
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Carius, Knispel and Wittman shared one characteristic – they were more wary of anti-tank guns than tanks or tank hunters because the A/T guns were harder to spot and you could blunder into what the Soviets called a kill-sack where there were guns concealed to strike attackers from almost every direction. Best panzer commander? Harder to judge than you think because each of them served in different units so you have to allow for the competence of their comrades and the scale of the threat they faced. You also need to weight the fact that for large parts of their… Read more »
Another great unboxing! So many highlights, I’ll have to resist the urge to just quote the whole video. First favorite bit: @johnlyons at 00:45 – “It does what it says on the box. It’s a Tiger I . It Tigers things . . .” “Danke schöne Rommel for putting the 88 in the Tiger.” I’d certainly agree Rommel was the first to use 88s against tanks in France – Battle of Arras, 1940(at least in WW2, I’ve heard something about someone doing this in Spain during the civil war, but I don’t know for sure). And while Rommel didn’t have… Read more »
I agree.
STANDING OVATION for the idea that German armaments production shouldn’t have messed around with Tigers, King Tigers, and the like. This point was subtly dropped in the Lloyodslavia history of all things. David Fletcher, everyone’s favorite British tank historian has suggested the point that “if the Germans had concentrated on manufacture of Mark IVs and not messed about with Panthers and Tigers . . . they would have done much better.” I don’t know if I’d agree with all that, which is why I think John nails it with “focus on Panther, forget the Tiger and all its demented bastard… Read more »
I for one am glad that Hitler was more than a little crazy which meant that his commanders couldn’t do the ‘smart’ thing … While it may be easy to say “they shouldn’t have done X” and blame Hitler you’ve got to consider that once a project is started it is becomes increasingly harder to halt development, because the goal appears to be so close and the thing becomes too big to fail. “Just a few more days and it’s done” or as us gamers would say : “Just one more turn … ” You’d need one heck of a… Read more »
20th century industrial warfare demanded 20 critical resources (not counting people): Germany had access to only 3 within its own territory and about 4 others by conquest/alliance nearby. They had to go further afield, hence the push towards the oilfields in and beyond the southern Soviet Union. Megalomaniacal projects like the Bismarck/Tirpitz/Graf Zeppelin absorbed hundreds of thousands of tons of steel that could have been more effectively used as U-boats, tanks, artillery and so on. Maus was a sideshow by comparison. Tiger 1 was the result of something that began with a pre-war heavy tank project – remember, Hitler had… Read more »
I agree… but not with everything. Panther II was not really better than the normal Panther which showed the rejection of the Panther II project by improving the Panther A to the Panther G.
But you’re very right… the best tank does nothing without consumeables.
Kelly was showing this video to a certain “Odd” character and all he had to say was…
“Its a wasted trip baby, nobody said nothin about lockin horns with no Tigers.”
“…woof-woof.”
a great well detailed model.
as to the tiger issue Adolf was a nut he wanted super tanks & super ships (bigger than the Yamato) if he wasn’t the leader Germany would probably never have went to war. His messing about probably helped us win the war more than anything else.
I wouldn’t ave ignored the Tiger, however I wouldn’t have developed anything further down that line than the Tiger I Ausf. E. I would have used the Tiger as a supplement to the Panzer IVs against the heavier tanks in the eastern front and have it be there in order to get enough time to fully develop the Panther. The Panther would than replace both the Panzer IVs and the Tigers as my main battle tank.
I would love to see more Tanks content !
I noticed the card that mentioned 30 “unconfirmed” kills. Were kills confirmed for tank aces the same way as for fighter aces; there had to be eye witnesses to verify the claim? It has amazed me that in a confused knife fight between aircraft or tanks that kills could be confirmed with any accuracy.