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Published: 2007-10-23 00:25:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 9140; Favourites: 110; Downloads: 824
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Background Story(this is not a real event, I wrote this to fit the picture :3 )
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The small group of Wehrmacht troops stationed in a quiet French village noticed the American Airborne forces stalking the place, but they would not strike, as if waiting for something. Not knowing their numbers, the Wehrmacht stationed did not venture out to shoo them away.
Then the thing the American Airborne troopers were waiting for, reinforcements and a M3A1 Stuart from the beaches of Normandy. The Wehrmacht forces stationed knew they had no chance in beating them now with no anti-tank weapons.
But then things took a change, as a small group from a Waffen-SS Panzergrenadier Division ended up in their village. The new arrivals were only too willingly to take care of the Americans as they went back to the Field HQ to receive their Division's new toy, the Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger. Eager to test it out, the Waffen-SS wasted no time in coming out to great the Americans coming in.
The Americans believed they were going to see fleeing Germans or white flags waving like crazy from the windows, but instead they were greeted by Kar98 and MG42 fire and the occasional sniper shot, from across the field to the village. The soldiers held up a bit to let the Stuart to get more up the road and to give the Germans some lead. Only to see horror as the "King Kong" of all tanks came looming out from behind the hedges. Instantly the Stuart's crew tried to get out, but they were not as fast as a speeding Flak 36 88mm shell which ripped through their pitiful tank like it was a tin can. The American troops still close or in the woods fell back, as the ones in the field tried to hide where ever they could, or die running from the iron monster coming up the dirt road, with its joyfullest Waffen-SS troops already singing their victory song to their lovely new toy.
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Artist's Comment
OMFG!!!! I sketched this up during the Christmas Holidays in December 2006 and it takes me till October 22, 2007 to finally finish this motha fucken picture..... mainly do to my lazyness at times, giving into the call of my video games and the fact my art PC was taken away from me for like 6-7 months.
Oh well, its done, ENJOY MOTHA FUCKAS!!!!!!!
This piece of art work is (C) to me!!!!
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lol, but still happened. "Why leave good valuables to waste, he's not needing it anymore!"
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Well, for this picture, this is the Tiger I, not the Tiger II as you say.
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I know that I was just saying that the King Tiger was the true beast of the German Panzer corp
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Then have you seen this picture I did? [link]
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I have now and what a beast the King Tiger was!
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Thanks
But here's a more modern drawn Tiger II picture from me: [link]
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88 mm vs 37mm I BET ON THE 37MM!!!
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Your odds are 1/1,000,000,000
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i will be the richesy man ever
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Dude nice picture, and good story to go along with it!
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Very nice tank perspective. May colour of US camouflage is so strange (and thic additional light in the font hull of Tiger) but... it doesnt mater
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Well, it was done in 2007 and I was trying to get a metallic look, and as you can see, I failed at it
Thanks
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cool, looks like the tables have turned, becuase the American's fought to get a Luger and the Germans are getting watches from them
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Well, if it can get you a pretty penny at home, why not take it then leaving it to rot or rust away?
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ah, The French Fought for Honor, The British fought for Freedom, and the US fought for souvinirs
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well, everyone was fighting for freedom of Europe, the Japanese fought for their honor as well (hint Kamikaze pilots).
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yeah, but it was a joke(sorta) because the US took alot of souvinirs from the germans
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well, he is the star attraction
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Nice pic ^^ It's the first time i see germans with mustache tough
There was only one more "monster" than this, the Josef Stalin I, with a 122.00 mm canon, and a thick hull Oo
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Thanks
He's stationed in France, why not
The IS-1 was actually a 85mm cannon with 30-132mm armor
The IS-2 had the 122mm with 120mm armor
But don't forget about the new German tank that was coming out after the King Tiger, the Maus, with a 128mm and 200mm hull armor. Only problem it was not developed for the Germans did not have an engine to power it properly (for they were still fighting with the Tigers, Panthers, and King Tigers engine issues).
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It reminds me this crazy german prject to create a tank /w a battleship canon, mega hull. They realized there wouldn't be any bridge, and even road, enough solid to handle such a weight xD
Russians were still creating crazy tanks, and the IS-3 created the very first modern tank design, with less angles, lower turret, just as the Abrahms M-1 is. German & USSR made the big tanks of the war. France had best tanks of all at the beginning of the war. USA had more navy and airforce than good tanks ^_^
I forgot about this tank, shooting shells around 380 mm, but not in a straight shot. More artillery like.
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you mean the land naval gun crawler called the Landkreuzer P. 1500 Ratte? it was big so it could made its own road
but the biggest tank they were trying to make at the end of the war was the Maus. they had an idea for a Tiger III and Panther II, but they first had to make an engine able to handle the tigers, panther and maus first
"France had best tanks of all at the beginning of the war." Err, not really, for the Germans quickly showed how outdated the 2 maned French tanks were.
But if it was against the Italians, then yes
Oh, you mean the Sturmtiger. And it was an assault gun tank, not a combat one.
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Yeha sturmtiger, my memories need to be refreshed
France had best tank and were matching easily the Panzers. They became outdated coz we stopped war =_= You prolly don't know that De Gaulle, the guy who saw the first the power of tanks, before Guderian (G. added the airplanes), commanded tanks, and counter-attacked around a little town (Montcornet). He made prisonners and destroyed numbers of german panzers. but he had to retreat because of massive reinforcements.
If Germans had invented such a tank, Russian would have done for sure the same =_=
It reminds me the funny KV-1 & 2, one was so armored it could stop column of panzers xD
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Well, there were only 2 French tanks, and they were from 1940:
The SOMUA S-35 medium tank, was undoubtedly the best Allied tank in 1940. It had both a radio and its 47mm gun could fire both AP and HE rounds, an oblivous requirement which had escaped British designers at the time. In 1940, many SOMUAs were damaged and abandoned from the German Blitzkrieg attacks, but the vehicle was good enough for Germans to use against Allies four years later.
Char B1-bis heavy tank, was easily able to deal with any German tank in existence of 1940, but abysmal handling rendered it largely ineffective against German infantry/anti-tank units.
The SOMUA had a hard time hiding behind buildings because of its size, and the French tank tactics was every tank would go out and fight, instead of fighting together like the Germans did. So the Germans out ran them, and left them to the anti-tanks/infantry coming up the rear of the panzer columns.
It was the KV-2:
1941, its formidable armour caused the Germans some problems; a single KV-II pretty much held up the advance of 6th Panzer Division for a day by blocking key crossroads near one of the division's bridgeheads across the Dubbiss River near Leningrad, despite taking innumerable hits. Yet althought the KV-II proved invulnerable to almost all German weaponry - other then heavy artillery and the 88 - its nonetheless proved utterly outclassed in the fast-moving operations that characterized Operation Barbarossa. German antitank gun crews soon learned to shoot off the tracks of the KV-II, leaving the immobilized tank to be finished off by infantry, engineers, 88s, heavy artillery or air support.
Funny part is, even thought immobile, it still proved to put up a fight with the infantry and engineers, so they stuck to bring in an 88 or stuka to finish it. I lost were the original story was posted, but a group of engineers ran up to a immobile KV-II that was still fighting the German tanks and infantry trying to advance, from behind, and threw a satchel on it. They watched it detonate and the tank go silent. The Germans sighed with a relief and started to carry on moving til the damn thing started shooting again, telling them it wasn't done yet.
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About French tank tactics, the HQ realized too late -only when De Gaulle counter attacked successfully- that his tactic was the good one.
I think french tank effectiveness isn't due to a lack of decent tanks, but a lack of tactic. If we had used tactic adviced by De Gaulle, we'd have been much more a match for German troops. And i do think we'd have got better tanks. Who knows? ^_^
I do think one of the best force of France was the will of the crews, more motivated than any others to fight. I don't see tons of soldiers beeing happy to die for their country ^-^
Yeah many french tanks have been reconverted as panzerkampfwagen- (?), i dunno the numbers after
Hahah KV-2 was so funny. Even tough germans could use aircrafts and Flak 88 to destroy those, it was showing how dangerous those tanks were against Panzers
KV-2 was more effective than KV in the way it was much more "mobile" (lol). KV-2 also had a huge turret, that made him easy target for ennemy anti-tanks units.
About the satchel story, wow, i didn't know it, but it's impressive
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Now, or in WWII?
Of coarse they have great will, if you want to charge solo into a column of 25+ enemy tanks
I didn't say De Gaulle could deal with the German troops, it were the solo tanks taking on a squad of German Panzergrenadiers (armed with pak guns, and anti-mines/rifles), who harassed the tanks and quickly moved to the rears of the sluggish ones.
They probably were converted to Panzerkampffrenchywagen Is
they don't change the name to something of their creation, they try to finds its name, and add something to it, and a new paint symbol
Lol, its big turret is because it has an artillery gun in it, and it can only turn on level ground (for the ball berring were so bad in it). And for mobility, it was using the faulty KV-I engine, so it was even more "devastating"
And it had thick ass armour for that large turret, for only an 88mm and higher could rip through it.
Sadly, its productions stopped, for the only factory that built them in Russia was in Leningrad, which was mobbed over by German forces after the friendly little bridge greetings
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Well the more the soviet pushed, the better tanks became. Also, faster tnaks were required (to my opinion) since they had to rush to west. After all, didn't Churchill's main matter was to end war as fast as possible to block soviet expanding?
KV-2 had a huge problem, it was just even slower than KV-1. And as you probably knows, tons of soviet tanks were lost mainly because of engines problems, or bad quality caterpillar. so if you add those annoying facts to a 30 kmph tank (on ROAD -not including swamps or snow or w/e-), this tank can't move. And whats's the point of the tank? (i've read de Gaulle, that's my point xD) It's a breaktrough weapon, not a protection for infantry.
I didn't say u did say De Gaulle couldn't deal
What i mean by will, is, during Italy campaign, 25% of troops were French. With a few divisions, they fight 33% of the German Army (in italia ofc
If people saw the Wehrmacht as an invincible army at first, it's coz it was extremely well disciplined, with a perfect logistic, supplying......Whereas all other european armies weren't ready to go for a moving war. So supply lines and all thoses things that impressed people, weren't here. OFC it wouldn't have been useful to show all this rushing in Maginot Line. That was the point of the tank to move trough Ardennes ^-^
France and Germany had equivalent tank forces at beginning, but HQ tought it was better to spread them all over the border, instead of making big tanks units. What kinda failed.
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"France and Germany had equivalent tank forces at beginning, but HQ tought it was better to spread them all over the border, instead of making big tanks units. What kinda failed."
Yeah, they believed in the next fight would still be based on WWI fighting styles, and the Germans lead the French forces up to believing it by making a line across from theirs like WWI style, only to distract them from the actual arming blitzkrieg armour columns behind the German lines.
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Well actually when Hitler made the Anschluss, or Poland invasion, if France had attacked, it was doomed for Germany. But UK'n France haven't done anything, what convinced Hitler even more that France wouldn't go for a mobile war, more relying on static, as the Maginot Line shows.
Actually, De Gaulle had even predicted we'd get owned xD Kinda sad nearly none listenened to him =_= (Yeah i like De Gaulle 
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yeah, De Gaulle was the equivalent of Germany's Field Marshal Rommel, both great battle tactics and yet their leaders wouldn't really lessen to them, so they had to fight with what they had.
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Well De Gaulle was more invovled in the politic part, working at placing France in the winner's side, and preserve France's interest. Koenig, was one of the most brillant tacticians, as well as Leclerc.
De Gaulle was much more a strategist than a tactician, tough he proved his skills at the beginning.
Rommel, the desert fox, and Monty, it was an epic fight. Few people know it's Monty and not Patton who has beaten the Fox
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For Monty used the Fox's own tricks against him at El Alamein to turn the tide in the Africa Campaign.
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It was an extremly tactical fight, since both were pushing then retreating, they had to deal as well with sandstorms and heavy minefields.
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gotta love those germans...had better everything but small arms
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yar
"had better everything but small arms" well, it explains why they build their vehicles and weapons so well, they were able to get their arms into it
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yes indeed...that actually made me laugh...thanks
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