M4 sherman!

[titanic3]

we can always use it to divert germans gvs from our base:p
but we need a lot cuz the tigers would fry our sherman butts XD
or we can use it to kill light armored tanks. like M3,jeep,M16, maybe panzer if we hit right spot.

[Ack-Ack]

Why not the Pershing?  Would add a US armored vehicle capable of going toe to toe with a Tiger.



ack-ack

[VooWho]

Why does no one want the Sherman. A Sherman can take out a tiger, if you get on its butt. Yes the Pershing would be nice, but this thread is about the Sherman. Like I've said, you start adding all these late war tanks, (like the planes) we won't get no Sherman or any earlier weaker tank of the war, that saw great numbers. The reason why we don't have French fighters, or early war fighters is because we have too many 1943-45 planes that would just smoke the early fighters in every thing. If we get a sherman, add the panzer III to the game or something, that it could match.

[Denholm]

Haven't you noticed why we're talking about all these other great heavy armored tanks? We want the chances of the M4 becoming part of the game to be SLIM.

[tedrbr]

Originally posted by mjtaylor
although the M4 Sherman is weak and all (with fire power and protection), it still was a lethal war winning machine and most widely used! we need it!

It was a machine of attrition.  The Allies could afford to loose Sherman tanks at 3 or 4 times the rate of the (fuel-starved) Germans, and still push them back.

You want a Sherman?  Take out an M-8, and stay in first or second gear only.  THAT is a Sherman.  See how well you do in it against Panzers and Tigers.

Only reason a sherman could kill a tiger from behind, was the tiger was busy killing all the sherman's fellow tanks.

A Sherman tank would be nothing more than a hangar queen in this game.  Too easy to kill.

[Brenjen]

I agree with most of that, the Sherman gun was more powerful than the M-8 & it was better armored but as the modeling in this game goes it would be close to the same thing. Firefly (it's a Sherman be glad), the Pershing or my #1 want, the Panther. We need a mid perk tank to combat the Tigers when we are eny strapped, but even that won't help a lot of the time..I couldn't even up a panzer the other day, just a T-34 because of the eny.

 Giving the T-34 a high velocity gun or perked HV ammo even would be a big plus, that could also be done with the Sherman if we had one.

 The allies do need a tank in the game & the Firefly would be the best all around choice imo because, it was a Sherman for all intents & purposes but it was a British tank so it could be used in Scenarios easier with different skins & gun packages applied it would sort of kill two birds with one stone so to speak.

[okiebob]

SHERMAN want it the most. M10 awsome panther awsome. NEED MORE GVS german american british japaneese and Russian give us all of them HTC i would use shermans alot but we need tanks...we have 3 tanks, an M8, some anti air gvs and transport but WE NEED TANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! b00bman

[Denholm]

Why don't you guys spend your effort on getting tunnels before GV's? That way the game is more fun, and you get some GV's to add to the excitement afterwards.

[flyboy97]

well if u do put the m-4 sherman get the m-4 sherman firefly it have the same gun as the t-34

[E25280]

Originally posted by flyboy97
well if u do put the m-4 sherman get the m-4 sherman firefly it have the same gun as the t-34

That's comedy.

[nirvana]

Originally posted by Krusty
If you ignore taylor, it was a nice thread. That's what I was doing most of the time (ignoring taylor)

Yep, me and Krusty had a good conversation, then some others guys joined in.  It was a good time.

If you want a Sherman, take up an M8.  It's nearly ineffective against tanks and it's armor sucks.  Oh, and it's faster.

[mjtaylor]

Originally posted by tedrbr
It was a machine of attrition.  The Allies could afford to loose Sherman tanks at 3 or 4 times the rate of the (fuel-starved) Germans, and still push them back.

You want a Sherman?  Take out an M-8, and stay in first or second gear only.  THAT is a Sherman.  See how well you do in it against Panzers and Tigers.

Only reason a sherman could kill a tiger from behind, was the tiger was busy killing all the sherman's fellow tanks.

A Sherman tank would be nothing more than a hangar queen in this game.  Too easy to kill.

ummm will we just stick with the sherman! all the tanks that r in here r late war production! just give us the sherman! take peabody for example, he uses the T-34 because there isn't a good american or japanese tank on here! Say since the D-Day map thing just won't come out i'll work on a great 1! I'll need the DD sherman though for an allied tank to land!!!!!!
Also, why isn't there a western front tank for the allies that was medium? We could use the churchhill, what about that????? So either we get a great western allied tank or this game is just plain boreing!!!!! You have to give the western front allies some credit!

[mjtaylor]

http://www.battletanks.com/new_page_15.htm

http://www.battletanks.com/m4_w_flamethrower.htm

http://www.battletanks.com/m4_w_dd.htm

http://www.battletanks.com/m4_w_rocket_l.htm

http://www.battletanks.com/m4a3_sherman.htm


also check out more tanks at:

www.battletanks.com

[Denholm]

If you think that not giving this game a western front tank will make this game boring, check the credentials:

download.com > Simulation > Flight > WWII > Aces High II

I would never doubt C/NET, nor download.com ontop of that!

[Nemeth]

althou having a allied tank wold be nice... the M-4 Sherman is nothing more than a large metal casket...
this would be how many shots it would take to take down a M-4...
pnzr - 1-2 shots
tiger - 1 shot (anywhere)
t-34 - 1-2 shots
m8 - 3-6 shots
the only reason the m-4 was good was because of the number made...
alone the m-4 is worse than the m-16
and last but not least, the only version of the m-4 I would want is the firefly, other wise it would be the official GV hangar queen...