Yep you simply pulled the number out of your butt, two companies do I hear a regiment next?
Here's my comment:
Fact is IS-2 man handled a platoon of Tiger IIs, just as Karnak said a T-34 whipped the Tiger II in an Ambush - as I said before the German's LACKED any gunnery later in the war, which concludes to me this document is pretty authentic, most likely the Russians caught the Tiger II's off guard and won a shoot out
what document are you refering to? The origional comment about "IS-2's knocking out dozens (minimum of 24 by defenition) of Tiger IIs in a single engement"? Or something you posted, which is irrelevent to the origional comment?
And your comment:
Quote from: Tank-Ace on Yesterday at 09:30:29 PM
A platoon is 4 Tiger II's, a company is 12. So a group of IS-2's came out with a tactical win against two companies of Tiger II's in a long-range shoot out
Now you add two companies? where does this come from? Or simply another delusional statement from you?
The origional comment said "dozens", by defenition this means a minimum of 24, or about 2 companies. You brought up a platoon out of no where.
Also, the T-34 ambush is ENTIRELY irrelvent, because its an ENTIRELY different situation. differences are:
1) 85mm firing HVAP vs 122mm firing either AP, APC, or HE rounds
2) close range vs 2000m
3) ambush vs long-range shoot out
It always cracks me up when people go around saying how IS-2's knocked out dozens of Tiger II's at over 2000yds, since its both impossible from the front, and so improbable as to be almost impossible.
The comment that started this. Notice, it says nothing about a platoon, but it DOES, however, mention dozens of Tiger II's at 2000yds +.
"dozens" means at least 2 dozen (24), else it would not be plural. A company is 16 Tiger II's, counting the company command. And so "dozens" meaning at least 2 dozen, which is 24, is about 2 companies of tiger II's, 2 companies being 28 vs 24 tanks.
I really can't explain the concept of "dozens" needing to be at least 24, by defenition, any better than this.
Would you feel better if I said 1.75 companies of tiger II's, instead of 2? Because thats the lowest ammount of platoons that "dozens" can be, and still remain "dozens", as in the plural of dozen, which is 12.