I know they suffered a lot of mechancical problems but were they really so useless that attempting to move them resulted in a 50% chance of them being rendered immobile or destroyed?
Seems a bit OTT to me...particularly as in the one scenario in Normandy featuring one that I can remember it comes as a reinforcement, which means it has a 50% chance of limping onto the battlefield and then promptly falling apart...
TeufelHund said:
I know they suffered a lot of mechancical problems but were they really so useless that attempting to move them resulted in a 50% chance of them being rendered immobile or destroyed?
Seems a bit OTT to me...particularly as in the one scenario in Normandy featuring one that I can remember it comes as a reinforcement, which means it has a 50% chance of limping onto the battlefield and then promptly falling apart...
Totally agree.
Thank goodness it's only an Op Card.
Must be a very early version, or perhaps one that has already gone too long without an overhaul. Which actualy happened frequently. But 50% is Harsh.
TeufelHund said:
Seems a bit OTT to me...particularly as in the one scenario in Normandy featuring one that I can remember it comes as a reinforcement, which means it has a 50% chance of limping onto the battlefield and then promptly falling apart...
As stated somewhere, reinforcements do not move onto the map, but are set up, so the Tiger II arrives on the board intact. But if it tries to move after that, it might be in trouble...
In the scenario in quation, it is possible to place the Tiger II directly in front of the hex the Brits need to exit their tanks for victory points, so even without moving it is a pretty tough roadblock.
Yes 50% is harsh but the first production models of the King Tiger had serious mechinical issues. the Tiger and the Panther suffered these as well. I researched this question thorougly and finding out later in a book on the Tiger Battalion 503 where they confirmed these problems makes me okay with the Breakdown rate. Btw some of these King Tigers in Normandy where Porshe Turret Versions not the Henshel that ended up being the full production model.
Bill Jaffe
They did have mechanical trouble - but not to such at degree that were touch and go driving every couple of hundred meters. Roll of 1 might keep it within the game, but more fairly to the Tiger II it shoule be the exeption rather than the normal.
well it may be harsh but the King Tiger had incredible transmission problems. And the book i'm reading which is a combat history of Tiger Battalion 503 the mebers of the Battalion talk about the constant breakdowns of the tank most of the problems are tied to the transmission which was inadquete intially. I'm not claming the card is Perfect but most King Tigers where destroyed by the Germans when they could not be rerecoverd to be repaired
Bjaffe01