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Cant wait for people to start complaining when the 17pdr starts ripping their Tigers apart.

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Originally Posted by A_tree (Post 4381079)

Cant wait for people to start complaining when the 17pdr starts ripping their Tigers apart.

They seem to think that the Tiger is somehow the best tank and has no business being destroyed. =p

I'd love to see what some of them say, for pure comic value. :nodding:

According to the Wikipedia article even the 6 pounder could destroy the Tiger 1 from the sides or the back, and from the front at close range.

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Originally Posted by General_Henry (Post 4380973)

death to axis tankers :(

Do you want to live forever, panz0r jockey?

We will love the crying shouts when M10's, Jacksons, Fireflies rip apart their tigers like butter

Ah, the Tiger-philes. "It's not fair - everybody knows the Tiger is the pwnage. We're supposed to win."

Well at least that's a historically accurate attitude. I'm always amused to hear the attitudes of those German ex-panzer warriors who were upset at how they lost the war. It was fun to hear Otto Carius, Willi Fey, Lohringhoven and the younger Guderian talk about what was "fair" and "unfair". They resented that the Allies' chose to win by making the war one of industrial production instead of simply matching Germany tank-for-tank. SS-tankers Carius and Fey seethed about how unfair it was to have to fight so many enemies who had so much materiel. They claimed that it was only the Allies' numerical and materiel' superiority which permitted them to annihilate the German military machine.

Well, yeah. Their argument seems to be, "We had such uber weapons and well-trained troops that no one should have been permitted to find ways to defeat them. No fair fighting a war we can't win!"

Sounds very familiar.

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Originally Posted by Lobo (Post 4381203)

Do you want to live forever, panz0r jockey?

We will love the crying shouts when M10's, Jacksons, Fireflies rip apart their tigers like butter

*manlove*

mr Jackson for me please. Yeah

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Originally Posted by Lobo (Post 4381203)

Do you want to live forever, panz0r jockey?

We will love the crying shouts when M10's, Jacksons, Fireflies rip apart their tigers like butter

I want to see an M18 Hellcat with its 50mph speeds :cool:

Firefly for the win!

It was a pleasure to use in the Market Garden map for FH1 - as long as the Tiger-jockey didn't see you first then it was point n' click insta-death for Mr Tiger :naughty: The sound of the 17 pounder gun on the Firefly was great too, it conveyed so much power and lethality :nodding:

Hey, even your fancy Centurions will run when we get our PaK 43s...

88mm HE shells are awesome too, hell I kill AT guns with the AP shells since you get more of them. So don't think suddenly the Tigers are just easy meat now...

The one fellow who's appeared on a couple of the History channel shows (can't recall his name) said that a Tiger could take out 3 Shermans. "But there was always a fourth..."