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>one King tiger killed like 40 T-34 and IS-2 and was only disabled by a german mine in a last stand against ze soviets
>a single king tiger killed like 15 allied armored vehicle and 15 more vehicles before being destroyed and crew bugging off
>Ghost division took like 150 miles in a single day
How did germany lose
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>>18226824
>one sturm tiger fired in the general direction of multiple shermans and disabled all of them.
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>>18226824
And the Ghost of Keeeeev is flying around shooting down 37 MIGs in a single day, right?
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>>18226824
They grew tired and all went home
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>WWII was all trading no one in the war ever saw anything spectacular such as one tank crew getting more than 1 kill
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Real life wasn't like a video game where it is made fair for both players. Kang Tigers constantly broke down meaning a risk of losing a tank even with a stunning victory like that.

Lighter tanks like the Panzer IV were only marginally less effective yet all their parts were mass produced and stress tested and little details like oil freezing were worked out meaning a lower risk of failure. The tank itself is only half of it, crews with 6 months training, ample supporting vehicles, maintenance, reconnaissance et cetera... competent generals not limited by arbitrary decisions like "not one step back" orders, upgraded optics and radios and the like could make a squadron of Shermans much more effective than even German tanks with superior guns and armor.

However the mindset of nazi high command was that they needed a fluke victory, they needed to push the limits of technology to avoid total defeat. They were hoping the King Tigers would turn out to be a wunderwaffen along with jets, rocket planes, rocket missiles, early guided missiles and the like. Everything except gas which Hitler was traumatized by and nuclear weapons where their own nuclear scientists deliberately undermined the project and lied to superiors after their jewish peers had been evicted.
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>>18226824
Logistics and industrial capacity win wars. Anon, this is basic stuff. Please read a book.



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