Bovington’s Tiger was recovered the following day and put on display in Tunisia, where it attracted the curiosity of King George VI and the prime minister, Winston Churchill. The projectile did not penetrate the armor, so the crew was able to abandon the vehicle with only the tank commander suffering some minor injuries. Its fate became sealed by a shot from a QF 6-pounder gun (57mm) which hit the tank’s gun mantlet and jammed the turret. It saw action in Tunisia in spring 1943, and despite its very short time of service, the “131” managed to knock out two Churchill heavy tanks. The exhibit at the Bovington Tank Museum was the first Tiger I tank captured by the Western Allies. They served under the command of "Heeresgruppe Afrika" as "higher command alert units". I had to check the army/oob assignment but as far as i can remember the Tigers were never attached TO the "Deutsche Afrika-Korps". So technically there were Tiger tanks IN Africa. Here they saw combat against the allied forces. Just a small side note Tiger I frühes Baulos were send to Tunisia with the 501. But as axis seem to get both brumbar and tiger 1 i fear it will be a repeat of coh2. So limiting heavies for both sides in different ways but equel messure would do the game justice imo. Brumbar another heavy also is a good pick. People chosing the panther wich is a heavy or the tiger (s) over them. P4's ostwinds stugs etc are more often then not skipped or are only build once per game. Just in coh2 heavies are much to prominent esp for axis. But for mp they would be a viable addition. So thematicly i makes sense they dint get them in africa. the Tiger 1 or the Churchill was used at the games time frame of WW2. Would be weird to exclude heavy tanks from a WW2 game, especially because e.g. Maybe it even works, if the DAK has always access to the Tiger 1, because it seems that the get weakier in the mid game, that stalls the time until the Tiger. I don't see any problem with heavies like they were implemented in CoH 2 after the last updates it received. The game would probably be better without them imo. Just make them very expensive and limit acces them greatly.
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