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This is not a question of what is the best tank, I'm just asking what your favorite tank from WWII is.

My picks--
Panzer IIIJ
IS-2
Churchill AVRE (mainly for the 'Flying Dustbin' )

I like the Sherman, I really do, it looked small and clunky but it just looks cool in all that old war footage. Second fav would be the King Tiger...what a beast or in the words of Patric Stewart in Dune: "Gods what a monster!" in that accent as only Patrick Stewart can do.

Mine would be:
Hobart's Funnies
Fireflys
76.2 mm Shermans
Jadgpanthers
Grants
The KV-1 with a 142 mm I forgot the orginial name
Also the German 240 mm rocket Tank whose name I also forget those things make a big hole in a wall or a tank:D
King Tigers are great, I mean in the move Battle of the Bulge, Colonel Pieper (the rl name) singingwith the German troops whats the name of that song? Also the wholesale slaughter of Americans.
And as for the Heavy Dustbins those packed quite a punch

Lennox, you're thinking of the KV-2, which mounted a 152mm howitzer on a different open topped turret. Top heavy as all hell and it only had about 30mm of armor protecting the turret. Production seems to have stopped not long after the German invasion, though they did see a fair amount of combat.

I like the IS-2/3, no competition for the T-10 or T-14 though
King Tiger
Sherman
Crusaders because they look funny
M5 Stuarts
T-34
All KV series tanks and SP spin off

Sea Skimmer wrote:Lennox, you're thinking of the KV-2, which mounted a 152mm howitzer on a different open topped turret. Top heavy as all hell and it only had about 30mm of armor protecting the turret. Production seems to have stopped not long after the German invasion, though they did see a fair amount of combat.

I like the IS-2/3, no competition for the T-10 or T-14 though
King Tiger
Sherman
Crusaders because they look funny
M5 Stuarts
T-34
All KV series tanks and SP spin off

Ah thanks, no wonder they always get messed up in Allied General aganist Panzer III J's & Panzer's IV D's

Heh, this thing looks like a mini Tiger

But, seriously.....

T-34/85
Panther
Panzer IV G
sherman firefly

Nothing beats Iosif (right?) Stalin and Königstiger.

Cpt_Frank wrote:Nothing beats Iosif (right?)

Correct. There is no "J" in the cyrilic alphabet.

RayCav of ASVS wrote: Heh, this thing looks like a mini Tiger

Panzer IIL Luchs.......one of my favorite light tanks
in Combat Mission

Although Tiger is my all time favorite WWII tank just for its imposing look and the unbeatable 88mm gun, "Sturmi" StuG IIIG gets the second place for their perfomance during the Soviet summer attack in 1944 on the Finnish front.




A Finnish Stug IIIG. Only 20 of them were in operational use in the summer 1944 when the attack began. 8 were lost but the Stugs destroyed 87 Soviet tanks.




Finnish soldiers and the remains of a Soviet tank.

Captain Lennox wrote:

Sea Skimmer wrote:Lennox, you're thinking of the KV-2, which mounted a 152mm howitzer on a different open topped turret. Top heavy as all hell and it only had about 30mm of armor protecting the turret. Production seems to have stopped not long after the German invasion, though they did see a fair amount of combat.

I like the IS-2/3, no competition for the T-10 or T-14 though
King Tiger
Sherman
Crusaders because they look funny
M5 Stuarts
T-34
All KV series tanks and SP spin off

Ah thanks, no wonder they always get messed up in Allied General aganist Panzer III J's & Panzer's IV D's

Yeah, they suck against armor. The idea was that they would support KV-1's by fire, busting pillboxes and anti tank guns, not lead assaults like some later Soviet SP's.

Centurion Mk 1 with the co-axial autocannon. Cool tank and probably the the blockiest and most aesthetically pleasing of all Centurion variants.

T-34
M4 w 76mm
Pz 3
Panther

Sea Skimmer wrote:

Captain Lennox wrote:

Sea Skimmer wrote: Yeah, they suck against armor. The idea was that they would support KV-1's by fire, busting pillboxes and anti tank guns, not lead assaults like some later Soviet SP's.

Still, in the early days, Soviet tankers nicknamed them "Dreadnoughts."

In terms of appearance, my favourite tanks of WWII are
the KV-IIa
and the T-35 (maybe the SMK as well)

But when you want to win the ground war:
T-34/85 all the way, baby!

[and the OT-34 for sheer coolness]

Also, the BT series had a really 1930s Christie-based style.

It WAS Christie, but with a gun tacked onto it, and mass produced.

Christie got around the ban on exports of weaopns to the USSR
by labelling his M1930 tank a "tractor' which worked since it had
no weapons at all....

Yes, I know it was a Christie. But if I had said that it was a Cristie, you would have complained that it is in fact a BT with armament and mass production, among other things that the Christie never achieved.

Doomriser wrote:Yes, I know it was a Christie. But if I had said that it was a Cristie, you would have complained that it is in fact a BT with armament and mass production, among other things that the Christie never achieved.

*Sigh* if you take a fucking close look at the Christie M1930 and the
early BT Series, you'll see that they're virtually fucking identical, with
the only difference being a turret with a gun in it. Close enough.

Thank Combat mission 2 for showing me how damn close the resemblance is....

Getting out my copy of RUSSIAN TANKS OF WW2 : STALIN'S ARMORED MIGHT........

BT-1: "Designed in 1932, this may have been a straight copy of
the T-3 even down to the 350 hp V-12 liberty engine...Some
assert the BT-1 was in fact the designation of the original
Christie vehicles.....armed with 2 MGs.....

BT-2: Using the same hull as the BT-1, soviet engineers
mounted a 37mm gun in a turret....The BT-3 was a further
improvement on the BT-1 with solid disc roadwheels in place
of spoked....

BT-5: it looks almost identical to the BT-5, but with a different
fender design and a bigger turret...

BT-7: Substituted a Diesel engine for the gasoline engine,
increasing the combat radius

So basically, the entire BT series tanks were basically identical
to the original M1930 Christie, but with logical evolution to
layout, armor and firepower.

Don't patronize me, Doomriser.

T-34
IS-2
KV-1
Mk 6 light tank (it just looks funny)
M-26
Panther

Incidentally the 88mm L/55 on the Tiger had worse armour penetration than the 75mm L/70 on the Panther.

Tiger all the way, baby!