What if Germany had actually built large numbers of P1500 Landkruezer Monsters (largest tank ever designed) and P1000 Landkruezer Rattes (2nd largest tank ever designed). Could they have won? Personally I think that they could have stopped any attack by T34s and IS3s. Anyway, your thoughts.

Obviously you never played the old Steve Jackson game Ogre. The Ogre (essentially the same idea) always lost.

Like any tank of the era, their armor is weak on the top, rear and less so, the sides. Being larger, aircraft would have an easier time scoring hits. Large number of German tanks were lost to aircraft and I don't see any reason the super heavies would fair any better. In fact, I would suspect they would the primary target of any flight of aircraft and much easier to spot.

Other problems:
Fuel comsumption
bridges unable to support them
actually getting to the fighting
problems with recovering damaged machines, such as getting disabled tanks back to a shop.

It is interesting that the major post war powers flirted with super heavy tanks but never deployed substantial numbers because of the impracticality of them.

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super heavy weight tanks were just plain silly as they would had been sitting ducks from artillery fire and aerial bombardment.

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