WinSP MBT: Das Reich

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Its quite interesting watching peoples rational for where things would have gone & trying to base it on history.

First you have to take DRGs post & rationalise the atomic bomb never worked as Germany would have been the first target if things did not go the way they did.

Marks post with regards to manufacturing & Suhiirs about Panther being flawed also possibly hold little merit.
German designs at the start of the war were okay, Panther was good & fixed as best as a nation in industrial crisis probably could.
It was most likely rushed into service because Germany had limited manpower so better equipment would help alleviate that. The guy in charge had lost his marbles by then & pushed stuff into service ready or not I would guess. So what happens when he is dead & a more level head to R&D takes over.

Yes you can generalise to a degree using Suhiirs post Panther vs Sherman
USA take their time develop reliable easy to manufacture equipment, its a if not the main criteria.
Brits etc a more Ad Hoc approach possibly
Germany did make more (overly) complex stuff but if they had less "silly projects" & they were not rushed into service who knows how good they could have been.

Germany would have had to be at the forefront of new ammo & armour & engine research using different materials because they didn't have enough to maintain the war till it ended let alone if it extended.

Actually thinking about it if the war had gone on another 6 months or so the German Army of the early 50s would have been just the same as it was in real life.
Very little artillery because there are no shells to fire & hardly any vehicles because there was nothing to run them on even if they could manage somehow to keep production going.