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Why did Germany invest in so many designs of heavy tanks, like the Tiger?
Big, clanking, gas guzzling monstrosities that needed lots of maintenance and couldn't cross most bridges?
Part of the reason is, ironically, fuel shortages.
The Germans knew they couldn't supply tank armies on the scale of the Soviets or the Americans. Not enough fuel to power 50,000 Panzer IV's and StuG's.
So, they invested part of their military budget into top-tier heavy tanks that were intended to take out multiple enemy tanks at long range, sniper style.
Quality over quantity.
So these tanks had a very specific purpose. They weren't for massed assaults and they weren't an anti-infantry weapon.
They were designed to set up in a superior position and engage enemy armour directly at long range.
In practice this sort of worked. Most famously, Michael Wittman and his small group of Tigers disrupted the whole 7th Armoured Division at Villers-Bocage in 1944, tearing up columns of Cromwells and Shermans, throwing off a British offensive.
But this couldn't be repeated at scale.
Eventually sheer numbers ground them down.

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