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KungKras said:

JEMC said:

German and Soviet did the best tanks of the war, while America and Japan had the worst (because let's face it, the Sherman wasn't that good, and only the ones equipped with the 76mm cannon were a thread to some of the Panzers).

Indeed. There were a lot of instances when a panzer shot a sherman and the bullet just went straight through it from front to back.

A funny thing though is that at the start of the war, the allies had more and better tanks than the germans. The often forgottan french tanks outclassed the german ones. (And the British Mathilda tanks were invurnurable to any german tank) It was how the germans used them that allowed them to take france and poland so fast.

That's because after the 1st World War ended with the Treaty of Versailles, the germans couldn't produce tanks, so the ones they made (the Panzer I and II) had to be disguised as farm tractors. Soon before the war, they did the Panzer III which was already quite good and with the later Panzer IV things changed radically.

And while the Mathilda had a very good armor (Rommel had luck with the 88's), the problem it had was that it was slow, like most of the other tanks of the era minus the german ones who used the speed as an advantage for their Blitzkrieg.