Poll
Question:
Which classic World War II Tank would you like to own?
Option 1: Panzer VI Tiger
votes: 8
Option 2: Sherman
votes: 2
Option 3: Churchill
votes: 6
Option 4: T34/76 or 85
votes: 10
Option 5: M13/40
votes: 2
Option 6: Type 97 Shinhoto Chi Ha
votes: 0
Option 7: Renault R35
votes: 1
Option 8: own selection
votes: 15
Just for fun this one.
If money were no object, servicing/transport and parts available, which Classic Tank would you most love to own?
Oh yeah and you have a nice big field with lots of different things to drive over or through (old cars/logs/water)
let me know if their is one that is your favorite and that will be counted too.
Churchill - preferably a crocodile
T34 only tank for me :x
M13/40 because they are so wonderfully crap 8)
Yep, T34/76 .
Pz IV for me... 8)
I was going to say JagdPanzer IV, because I like it's sleek, low profile. But technically it's not a tank.
So T34 it is.
@Nik: you can see in my profile pic what it will do to your Pz IV... :-)
A T-34/76 of course, the real panther.
Cheers,
Aart
None of this German rubbish - Cromwell, Crusader or Chaffee.
IanS
Quote from: OldenBUA on 11 January 2012, 07:39:24 AM
@Nik: you can see in my profile pic what it will do to your Pz IV... :-)
Ah yes - but mine is
prettier more stylish more aesthetically pleasing :d
Panther D - by common consent the best tank of the war. :-bd
M13/40, cos you needed REAL courage to go to war in one of those!
Mollinary
Panther no matter what version. None of the American and British toycars.
Outproduced, not outmatched!
Quote from: Hertsblue on 11 January 2012, 08:08:24 PM
Panther D - by common consent the best tank of the war. :-bd
Really?! 'By common consent'?
Not sure about that old boy.
Quote from: Dave Fairlamb on 10 January 2012, 06:20:31 PM
If money were no object, servicing/transport and parts available, which Classic Tank would you most love to own?
Just because its really THE iconic British WWII tank, it has to be the Churchill (an mark will do but for purity of untested design make it a Mk.I)
Quote
let me know if their is one that is your favorite and that will be counted too.
Hmmm...you know what, i don't think i really have a
favourite.
IF pushed i'd say two; the German Tiger and the Russian T34, because these both represent almost perfectly the character of their respective nations and their attitudes to the war...
From a realistic perspective, actually go out and buy one (member of the MVT so have friends who have tanks) then a Honey or a Chaffee. Small, easily maintained, relatively easy to transport, and both have bags of charm.
Quote from: Paint it Pink on 13 January 2012, 02:05:55 PM
Small, easily maintained, relatively easy to transport, and...bags of charm.
At 5' 6" that sounds, disturbingly, like me y'know ;) :P ;D
Quote from: Luddite on 13 January 2012, 01:09:05 PM
Really?! 'By common consent'?
Not sure about that old boy.
Yep even the British admitted it. Well, in 1945 they did.
As someone said earlier the "practical" choice would be chaffees or stuarts but i have always had a spot for jagdpanthers. however the "practical" choice would be the hetzer.
jon
Jagdpanther if you call it a tank :)
German would be a MkIII
British Cromwelll
American/British Lee/Grant
Russian KV1
thats about my list really
From the point of view of looks and personality I'd go for one of the early/mid war stuff which generally has a more quirky feel than the later "uber" machines.
A9 Cuiser
Matilda
Panzer II and III
M3 Lee
Late war probably the Churchill Croc
I like my tanks like a footballer likes his cars/wags, fast, good looking and topless! So its gotta be an M18 Hellcat!
Panther, love the shape, sex on tracks!:)
Quote from: Maenoferren on 16 January 2012, 12:13:58 AM
Jagdpanther if you call it a tank :)
German would be a MkIII
British Cromwelll
American/British Lee/Grant
Russian KV1
thats about my list really
KV-1 sounds pretty good, but it's slow as h***. :(
Jagdpanther - tank destroyer?
For me, it would have to be Panzer IV Ausf. G Sd.Kfz. 161/1 workhorse of the Wehrmacht
Andy
I picked Sherman because, quite frankly, it's a pain trying to get parts for foreign vehicles.
But the Sherman is a FOREIGN Vehicle - from Detriot.
IanS
But the nearly identical grizzly was made at the Montreal Locomotive Works.
And there is an M4 parked outside the local armory. If they find it up on blocks one morning you'll know what happened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tank_outside_Halifax_Armoury.jpg
Still foreign - wrong side of Atlantic....
IanS
Quote from: ianrs54 on 24 February 2012, 02:10:44 PM
Still foreign - wrong side of Atlantic....
Not when you live on that side of the Atlantic...
Carful - I can get very rude about Middlesbrough !!!!
IanS
Quote from: ianrs54 on 24 February 2012, 05:51:25 PM
Carful - I can get very rude about Middlesbrough !!!!
I'm on about Lentulus' location, he's in Canada, so the Sherman isn't foreign...
Think it is, unless it was a Canadian built example! :P
Isn't Canada just another US state?
Quote from: lentulus on 24 February 2012, 12:44:50 PM
But the nearly identical grizzly was made at the Montreal Locomotive Works.
So....Is Montreal in Middlesbrough then ?
Or is Middlesbrough in Canada....Or the 'States ?
I'm getting very disconbobulated...I thought the stuff I posted to Leon was going to somewhere in the UK.
Cheers - Dazed and Confused ;)
Quote from: Techno on 24 February 2012, 08:56:57 PM
So....Is Montreal in Middlesbrough then ?
Or is Middlesbrough in Canada....Or the 'States ?
I'm getting very disconbobulated...I thought the stuff I posted to Leon was going to somewhere in the UK.
:-/
Washington's near Newcastle... :-\
California is near Eston
So...When the better half and I had a home near Newark...Was I actually living in New Jersey ?
The things I learn on this forum. :-/ ;)
Cheers - Phil.
Crusader Mk III is the pretty one.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 25 February 2012, 08:55:25 AM
Crusader Mk III is the pretty one.
A pretty tank? And someone else thought the Panther was sexy! I'm starting to worry about you people! :D
Quote from: Hertsblue on 25 February 2012, 10:31:47 AM
A pretty tank? And someone else thought the Panther was sexy! I'm starting to worry about you people! :D
Recognise a destabilising mission when you see one! I'm trying to discredit the anorak-wearing WWII nostalgia gamers to advance the interests of real wargaming (e.g. Mesoamerican).
Quote from: FierceKitty on 25 February 2012, 11:05:57 AM
Recognise a destabilising mission when you see one! I'm trying to discredit the anorak-wearing WWII nostalgia gamers to advance the interests of real wargaming (e.g. Mesoamerican).
And that's where you go wrong, there were never any Crusaders in Mesoamerica! Conquistadores, yes, but they're not any good either. Perhaps you could try a Conqueror as a stand-in, but nobody makes them.
Quote from: OldenBUA on 25 February 2012, 12:44:56 PM
And that's where you go wrong. There were never any Crusaders in Mesoamerica! Conquistadores, yes, but they're not any good either. Perhaps you could try a Conqueror as a stand-in, but nobody makes them.
I'm rather more concerned that nobody makes the Mesoamerican troops the thinking part of the hobby is crying out for.
What are you prepared to sacrifice for your mythological Americans..........
IanS
Panzer II L - Luchs
just love it!
:x
The Tiger is a really cool and mean looking tank, but I would have to say my fovourite would be the Pzr IV. It was less complicated then the Panther or Tiger (ie easier to work on in the field), easy to adapt, and easier to mass produce. If the Germans had concentrated on Pzr IV production instead of "Wonder Weapons" the Pzr IV could have been the German Sherman (sorry about the rhyming.)
Are you sure about the PzIV I thought it was supposed to be overly complex and expensive - the Panther only cost around 10% more to produce IIRC
I'd say the Pnz IV is overdeveloped by 44, but not overengineered in the same way the Panther and Tiger were...
IanS
Just scrapes into the WW2 period, but I'd take a Centurion.
The TOG 1 because it was designed to go anywhere..