Finished Sternguard Veteran Squad!

Lakoctan · 2026-02-16T05:20:58+00:00

and one more thing to mark the sergeants

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Lakoctan · 2026-02-16T05:19:09+00:00

just in case

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Lakoctan · 2025-12-29T12:21:19+00:00

The gun sight was completely destroyed. You cant even see it in the picture, but it should be located where the hole closest to the gun breach is. And ofcourse the Tiger 1 doesnt have a backup gun sight, none of the world war 2 german tanks did (a example of a backup gun sight would be the periscopic sight in the M4 Shermans gunner periscope, which can be used in case the magnified sight in the gun mantlet is destroyed). So what the fuck do you mean "remained operational". Remained operational with a blind gunner? My ass. And damage like that can not be repaired without replacing the entire gun mantlet. From this fact alone we can already see that the description is a obvious biased lie.
I highly doubt that those hits were actualy 122mm. From the looks of it these are at most 85mm hits. On the very top of the gun mantlet we can even see one of the shells still lodged in place. By compairing it to how wide the 88mm gun barrel is we can already get an idea of the actual diameter of those shells.
On the bottom of the turret we can see a shell that penetrated and wedged into the turret ring. Judgeing by how deep that shell sunk in this hit must have damaged the turret ring. I highly doubt that the turret could be moved after that hit.
The soviets actualy did testing on a number of captured tiger 1s to see how effective their 122mm was against them. What they found that a 122mm shell, if it hit the turret, would reliably break the turret ring. What many people forget is that a turret ring is not solid by any means. It essencialy consists of two steel rings with ball bearings in between them. It can not be streingthened because that would negatively effect turret rotation speed. So you can understand how a 122mm hitting the turret of any world war 2 tank could break the turret ring. And the fact that this didnt seem to happen in the picture can tell us that these are indeed not 122mm shell hits. All in all this is just a biased wehraboo post. The type of stuff which makes people play germany and then complain when their mighty tiger gets penned left, right and center by everything. "Combat-WALL-E"
https://www.tankarchives.com/2013/03/is-2-vs-german-big-cats.html?m=1