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Originally Posted by Sloniksp
Im a little confused, to my understanding what made the Panther, Tiger and King Tiger's so heavy was the extra armor and larger guns they possessesd. Wouldnt reducing their weight and guns just extinguish the very purpose for which they were built?
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Well yes i can understand your confusion, and i intended none, it is just i reduced it down to weight of material and overlaying it to the 25 tonnes per Panzer Mk IV which equates to something like 11,500 Panzer Mk IV's, but having said that the issue of large guns could be negated with say reducing the Panzer Mk IV stregth from a hypothetical 20,000 to say 14,000 and build 6,000 Nashorns which were built on the Panzer Mk IV chassis and armed with the mighty 88, this number of Nashorns would still outnumber Tiger and King Tiger.
Plus we have the the various Panzers, Panzerjeagers and self propelled guns of other models running around, or that we could simply remove obsolete designs and smelt their steel and convert their weight of materials into Panzer MkIV and Nashorns, simplify design and variety.