Jagdpanzer opinions requested.

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Originally Posted by stormbringer3

I'm thinking of playing a long campaign with a focus on Jagdpanzers for a change of pace. I'm thinking of starting in August 1944 for a varied selection. After viewing the the possibilties I thought I'd seek some thoughts from other players. If I don't pick the Jagdpanther, I was looking at the Nashorn or the Jpz IV/70v. The Nashorn has a great gun but appears very fragile for that stage in the war. The Jpz IV/70v states that it has a size of 2 which would be an advantage, but that that seems suspect to me especially when all the others are size 3 or higher. I am open to any ideas.

Grab that Jagdpanzer IV/70 while you can, because the size is an error that will likely be changed in some future update

There seems to be some errors in the sizes of some of these German vehicles.

It makes sense, that turretless AFVs like StuGs are slightly smaller than similar tanks. So if the Panzer III and IV are size 4, StuG III and Jagdpanzer IV should be 3.

There seems to be errors with the following units

- 507 Jpz IV/70v: Size 2, but should be size 3 like the other Jpz IV (503, 504)

- 510 Jpz IV/70a: Size 3, but should be size 4 like the Panzer IV tank. This vehicle put superstructure of the Jpz IV/70v on top of an un-modified Panzer IV hull, resulting in a big, boxy and tall vehicle, quite different from unit 507.

- 042 Jpz I: Size 2. Should be size 3 like the Panzer I, as it is of similar hieght and shape. Unit 387, another Jpz I, is the correct size.

- 578 and 856 Jpz 35f: These two are size 3, which seems fitting as they are quite similar to the Jpz I. However, the vehicle on which they were built, the Renault R35 is only size 2 in he French OOB. Still, the modification to Jpz did make it a bit taller and a bit longer than the tank on which it was originally based. So these are probably OK.

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