Originally Posted by Roddoss72

That may be so but essentially the Mk IV was a very good tank as many who used them loved them as they were reliable and no so difficult to maintain on the battlefield, while on the otherhand the Pz Mk's V, VI and VII were rushed into production with the addage of fixing the problems on the battlefield, many hundreds of Panthers, Tigers, and King Tigers were left intact as they broke down, the Panther would have been a potential war winner if production had allowed faults to be ironed out before being deployed, but the Tiger and King Tiger though devestating were eventually white elephants, overall their drain on the Panzer production was more trouble than they were worth, it would have been something had the German Armies had an additional 7,000 to 10,000 Pz Mk IV's on the battlefields, but one failure even on this largest scale is where do you get the fuel.