PANTHER--> please

[shreck]

with over 6,500 built, I think it deserves a place here! 

[opposum]

i agree 

[skribetm]

YOU MEAN THIS SEXY THANG!!!?

 

[BigPlay]

with over 6,500 built, I think it deserves a place here! 

 It actually could fit in with the current tanks we have very nice. Tiger, Firefly, T34/85 and another Panther could kill. So it wouldn't be super uber.

[waystin2]

Two thumbs up!

[chris3]

im for it too 

cu chris3

[SmokinLoon]

I dont have the stats in front of me, but the Panther would be a faster, more menouverable, and quicker firing than the Tiger in AH2

The Panther's 75mm gun would be at worst the same as the AH2 17lb'er in the M4 Firefly, the armor would behave very similar if not a tad bit better than the AH2 Tiger's (providing it is modeled properly), and its speed would rival the T34 (30mph v 35mph).  Certain things cant be modeled by HTC that figured into the real world battlefield experience of the Pzr V, such as the less than steller transmission, etc. 

If it were to be introduced into the AH2 realm, I suspect it would be perked the same as the Tiger is not even more.

However, I suspect the Pzr V is not the front-runner to be added.   

[glock89]

I'm all in for the Panther.

[B4Buster]

I think we should get more Medium and light tanks before we get another heavy. It should be added eventually though (even though it was riddled with engine problems) 

[VansCrew1]

 

[splitatom]

seconded

[Rich46yo]

Yeah. It wouldnt be uber considering the other tanks we have. I think the Panther is probably the "most needed" new GV for the game.

Want to beat it? Get to a side shot or to the rear. Am I right that frontal wise it was the hardest kill for WW-ll tanks? How do the other tanks rate, compared to it, with frontal shots?

[Masherbrum]

I know regarding the Panther, the A and D models had a good shot-trap beneath the mantlet that was used to ricochet AP shells down into the thin roof, where the shell would kill the driver and bow gunner.

Even the picture posted in this thread points it out.   MANY Panthers were knocked out in WWII from the Front, using this "passed along" bit of "Intel". 

[FLOTSOM]

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Panther-tank

nice brief read on the Panther

[BnZs]

I've got to say, we BY FAR need a standard gunned M-4 more than we need another uber-tank right now. As the last FSO showed. Firefly is too much for Panzer, but the M-8 is not an ideal stand-in for facing Panzers, and having to use stand-ins sucks anyway.

And we had the anachronism of having to use Fireflies in Tunisia, because that is the only Sherman we have, and then having to give the Axis buckets of Tigers, just to bring the field level with the Fireflies...its a mess I tell ya.