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Yeah I hear you on that. A Mark VI Tiger or King Tiger would be awesome. They looked like some kind of Gothic mechanical beasts snorting fire and brimstone. (plus an 88mm tungsten steel tipped shell with an fps of almost a mile a second.) But the Panther Mark V was my favorite. With that sloped frontal armor, the kind of rolled gun mantlet with the two holes for the turret binoculars on the right side, the main gun in the middle and the left side machine gun port in the turret mantlet it looked like some living mechanical monster on the prowl. No doubt about it, the Krauts had the badest ass, coolest looking stuff. My wife who has an interest in WW2 history was once glancing through one of my books on German Panzer divisions and came across some color photos of German tank crews in their black uniforms, with the Iron Crosses, the skulls and cross bones and said ‘’Boy, looking at these guys(the Germans) you don't have to know much or even anything at all about WW2 to know the way these guys dressed they sure weren't the good guys’’.