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I took a look at Italy. Hmm ... my ideas: 1 - start spamming Semovente 75/18 or - better - 75/34 in late '39; 2 - kill the L6/40; 3 - kill the M11/39 or use it for training. Put the M13/40 into production ASAP to train tankers and keep industry busy while I grasp for something better. 4 - I'm...

1 - in my "I'm the German AFV Shogun" post cancelling the Pz.III was one of the first things to do :) 2 - thanks for pointing out that gun - I knew that what ended up as the L43 had some sort of earlier competitor but I knew next to nothing about it. This gun saves the hassle of developing the...

No cupola on Jagdpanzers? Funny - never noticed :) Must had been some sort of executive decision, as the StuG III had it. By the time the T-34/85 rolls out, the war is lost. Like I said in my post - if made a German Panzer Tsar Shogun Supremo Overlord - I don't care beyond mid 1942. Starting...

What you described is pretty much the Valentine. Indeed its manufacture could be greatly simplified. I don't have the figures on hand, but the price difference (as much as prices have a meaning in a command economy) between the Pz.IV and Pz.VI is simply shocking. Thing is the Pz.VI was designed...

The Pz.IV was good enough for this. Simply have the F model with 7,5cm/L43 in quantity in 1941.

It was the Pz.IV chassis mated with StuG casematte which had been designed to be plopped on top of the Pz.III chassis :) Preach on Brother, I have your back! On another tangent - Schurzen in '39/40 - good idea? Protects sides against AT rifles and cannon at lower cost in weight and money than...

The StuG IV has joined the chat ... :) IMO the Panzer III/IV is too late to bother with. Something like it should had been done in the '40-42 timeframe, not '44.

No, IMO the best possible summary of problems with German tank/vehicle engineering (and procurement) is this: That is a single track linked of a fucking tracked motorcycle. A tracked motorcycle which had double steering, i.e. could run without the wheel in front as it could steer with in its...

Germany, starting 1.I.1939: 1 - anybody mentioning "interleaved wheel suspension" gets taken outside and beaten. If necessary I threaten with concentration camp. 2 - I kill the Pz.III and make Pz.IV the one and only chassis for everything. I bring forward the F model, i.e. with simplified lines...

An early Cromwell/Comet would do nicely, thank you. :) My take - if British - prepare a cross between Valentine Mk.III and IX. With some tweaks - three man turret BUT with cupola, if necessary the radio ejected to a bolt on external box (like Firefly) in the rear, external mantlet+trunions moved...