Top 5 tanks

[Orcs]

My top 5 in no particular oder are ......................


wait for it ............

1 Comet
2 Hetzer
3 Su 152
4 BT 7
5 Pz 4

[Heedless Horseman]

In my misspent youth:
1. Jagdpanther (fell in love with photo from 50 Famous Tanks    ...only really realised the nature of the beast much later!) 
2. SU85 (ditto but less)
3. S tank prototype (ditto)
4. Hetzer (Small, cheap and nasty!) 

(and to show I have no SPAT fetish!)
5. Daimler Mk II (The armoured car that looks just right!) 

Will add Airfix Crusader...just wanted to keep on building them! They looked great...but you ran out of desert!   (And Budgie cage  sand paper made such a mess of the dining table!)

[DanJ]

In descending order:

5) Matilda - Queen of the battlefield
4) Lee/Grant - Every boy's idea of what a tank should be, a stack of guns on top of tracks
3) Churchill - Tough and versatile but generally under gunned.  The Crocodile was the personification of nastiness
4) Conqueror - The Centurion's big brother, last of the heavies
5) Mk IV - Where it all started to come together

If there was a 6 it would be the Panzer Mk IV - Long lived and the backbone of the panzer divisions for much of the war

[fsn]

Reviewing the responses, there's a surprising lack of certain iconic vehicles: nobody has picked the Sherman, T34 is missing, and only FK picked the Tiger - and he likes Aztecs!

[Ithoriel]

Iconic? Maybe not

1) Ratte
2) Maus
3) Goliath
4) Tsar/ Nepotyr/ Lebedenko Tank
5) T-35

[d_Guy]

I think mine where iconic - wait maybe they where doric - well no matter...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

You really need to get your eyes sorted,
Those were Corinthian!

[d_Guy]

Right again, Kitty - I missed the scroll work.

[Dave]

My top 5 are

WW1 Mk1 male or female - first idea and attempt idea for attacking and crossing the trenches
Centurion - all round good tank
Sherman - first mass produced tank
Leopard - because everybody wants one :-
Abrahams - because the Americans say it's the best

[d_Guy]

You really need to get your eyes sorted,
Those were Corinthian!

Oops - sorry - I really do need an eye check!!

[d_Guy]

WW1 Mk1 male or female

Several just arrived from your establisment for HOTT War of the Worlds. I got some females, some males, and a hermaphrodite.
I know nothing about tanks - but as with new born kitties - how do I tell which is which or what is what?

[T13A]

Hi

5. Leopard 1 - Just like the look of it
4. T34 - probably the best all round tank tank of WWII
3. German Pz MKIV - Good all round work horse of the Wehrmacht
2. Churchill - I'm not sure why I just like it!
1. Chieftain -


Go Figure!

Cheers Paul

[fsn]

Several just arrived from your establisment for HOTT War of the Worlds. I got some females, some males, and a hermaphrodite.
I know nothing about tanks - but as with new born kitties - how do I tell which is which or what is what?

Males had 6pdr cannon in the main sponsons, females had Lewis MGs. hermaphrodites had a 6pdr on one side, and a Lewis on t'other.

[d_Guy]

Thanks. Probably I can look all this up but I get more concise information here.

Not trying to be a smartaxx, I get the hermaphrodite -one of each- but male and female seems to run counter to normally accepted practices in sexing complementary inanimate objects - electrical connections, plumping connection, nuts and bolts, etc. it seems like "man" tank and "boy" tank might work. Maybe I'm watching too many "Mr Monk" reruns with my wife.

[Ithoriel]

Bear in mind the original British tanks were Mother and Little Willie.

[d_Guy]

Bear in mind the original British tanks were Mother and Little Willie.

Well no one said this couldn't be fun!

Have now been forced to do some reading - interesting - "Mother" became the male, "Little Willie" the female.
The male was bigger and heavier and the female smaller and lighter and considered the "consort" of the male.
They deployed in pairs (but were apparently closely chaperoned).

Also learned that the development was under the aegis of the "Landship Committee". Given the name I wonder why they didn't just go to rotating turrets first. Too many engineering problems to solve at once I suppose.

They are big - a male takes up half the frontage of one of my Musket & Pike regiments. Now need to figure out which end is the front (must study pictures).

For reasons surpassing all understanding I also just got three Pendraken T35's.

[DanJ]

I think mine where iconic - wait maybe they where doric

Those were Corinthian

Are we talking about the Greek armoured columns that defeated the Persians at Marathon?

[Wulf]

Not trying to be a smartaxx, I get the hermaphrodite -one of each- but male and female seems to run counter to normally accepted practices in sexing complementary inanimate objects

Big weapon sticking out = male.

Which, for WWI era ideas on morality, is actually rather unusual... I guess the military figures polite gentlefolks would never hear about it...

[d_Guy]

Are we talking about the Greek armoured columns that defeated the Persians at Marathon?

Thanks for introducing a second period I know nothing about. That said I think we are talking about one of the Peloponnesian Wars. Maybe.

[d_Guy]

Big weapon sticking out = male.

You have succinctly stated the essence of my confusion. This lead to:
Little weapon sticking out = female

Which, for WWI era ideas on morality, is actually rather unusual... I guess the military figures polite gentlefolks would never hear about it...

Good point! Although with music halls at their zenith the "under" culture probably not only got it but LOL'd about it.